Babette’s Feast is a movie about the grace that none of us deserve but which all of us receive anyway, grace given that the giver might be graceful, not necessarily so that we might feel graced…
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There will be joy, because all that is disheartening will be undone. We are offered joy now and told to rejoice now because that “undoing of death” has already begun and will be completed soon
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All the world wants peace, but God’s paths to peace are often different than ours.
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Both Bambi and Magnolia invite us to wake up during this Advent season.
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Shake off the season’s familiarity, and wake up to Advent with our newest study guide series.
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Can anything overcome death’s terrible threat?
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Harry and his friends struggle to make it through trying times in the first part of the past film in the Harry Potter series.
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Love is in the air and in the chocolates in this sixth installment in the Harry Potter franchise.
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Dumbledore, like God so often, stays silent despite Harry’s protests for answers.
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The Goblet of Fire belches forth complications concerning Harry’s fate.
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There’s a lot to be afraid of in the wizarding world. Harry Potter learns to handle his fear.
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Harry Potter is keeping secrets, and his friends are getting hurt.
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Harry Potter’s world is full of good and evil. How can Harry tell them apart?
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As it rushes on and Gotham is besieged by terror—terror initiated by both Gotham’s villains and heroes—The Dark Knight constructs an increasingly complex moral landscape. The characters we assume to be good are increasingly twisted toward evil by the film’s events…
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The Avengers are rallying around the audience. They are fighting on behalf of the people in the theater seats watching them on the silver screen. The Avengers assemble for us. And this, I think, is this series’ greatest strength…
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Peter Parker has responsibilities to his friends and family and the city. How can he balance them? How can we learn how to balance our lives from his struggles? Might Spider-Man have something to say to married and single folk alike?
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All the problems are the result of one man’s fear of death. Rather than life the lifespan appointed to him and pass on his legacy to the next generation, Yashida clings foolishly to life and threatens to take anyone else’s life he needs to take to ensure he stays alive…
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How might a more permanent peace be established? It would, necessarily, involve moving past fear. It would also, necessarily, involve the destruction of all weapons. It would also involve continuously rejecting violence…
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Man of Steel is aptly titled. The movie hits with the force of girder beam accidentally dropped from the top of a skyscraper during construction, shattering the sidewalk below and claiming the lives of a couple of hapless pedestrians in the wrong place at the wrong time. This time, he doesn’t soar. Superman smashes.
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This movie does a fine job of showing how an adoptee can be connected and loyal to both birth family and adoptive family members. Clark leaves the Kent home when he is 18 in order to learn more from his birth father. He also financially supports Mrs. Kent in her widowhood. Clark obviously respects all four of his parents…
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Unlike other superhero movies which tend to focus on external adversaries for the sources of conflict, Thor centers on its hero’s need to learn selflessness and reconcile with his father and brother…
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