New documentary explores life of ‘visionary’ Jesuit scientist

Thirteen years ago, Frank and Mary Frost did not set out to make a 2-hour documentary about Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French Jesuit priest and scientist.

Documentary shows history of Chicago through Catholic lens

The producers of “Holy Ground” want to take viewers on a walk through Chicago history, looking at each step through a Catholic lens.

Parishioner produces documentary on ‘Mother Teresa’ of Honduras

Franciscan Sister Maria Rosa Leggol was not the most obedient of nuns. Sister Maria Rosa makes that clear in interviews featured in the documentary “With This Light,” released in 2022 by Miraflores Films and executive producer Jessica Sarowitz.

Barbie girl

The night before we went to see the “Barbie” movie, my mother came to our house for dinner and we got to talking about her sister, my aunt, who died just over two years ago.

Poitier’s roles put civil rights issues on the big screen

For someone who was raised Catholic, Sidney Poitier left a mark on the Catholic world.

Award for Flannery O'Connor film brings new attention to Catholic writer

It's not every day that a documentary film director gets a congratulatory phone call from legendary filmmaker Ken Burns. But that's what happened in mid-October for Elizabeth Coffman, an associate professor of film and digital media at Loyola University Chicago, who got a call from a New Hampshire area code while she was teaching class.

Oscars 2019: The year it got weird

It’s been a strange year for the Oscars. In August the Academy announced the creation of a new category, “Outstanding Popular Film,” which was almost immediately shouted into oblivion by Oscar voters and critics who would prefer the movies that make the money that actually allows modern-day cinema to survive be happy with their cash and People’s Choice Award nominations.

‘Bird Box’ and spiritual warfare

The film “Bird Box,” based on a British novel of the same name, started streaming on Netflix around Christmastime. Starring Sandra Bullock and John Malkovich, it is a taut thriller that manages, perhaps despite itself, to shed considerable light on the parlous spiritual condition of contemporary culture.

What ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ gets right and wrong

The original “Jurassic Park” film from 25 years ago rather inventively explored a theme that has been prominent in Western culture from the time of the Romantic reaction to the Enlightenment — namely, the dangers of an aggressive and arrogant rationalism.

That’s incredible

There’s something a little too ironic about going to a movie on hot June day to watch a family of cartoon superheroes battle to vanquish a new supervillain named “Screenslaver,” an evil genius who controls people — both normal and heroic — by hypnotizing them through the screens they watch.
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