Holiday watch: ‘Household Saints,’ a film about food, family and faith
“Household Saints” is a story about how culture, and especially faith, evolve through the different generations of an immigrant family.
The dark, indelible Catholic imagination in Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’
The most surprising thing about Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” is that he hadn’t already made it.
Pope Leo to Hollywood: Don’t give up on movies (or movie theaters)
Spike Lee, Cate Blanchett, Judd Apatow and Andrew Scott were among the Hollywood personalities who met with Pope Leo XIV for a private audience on Saturday.
Hitchcock’s ‘I Confess’: a classic Catholic noir about the seal of confession
While considered a minor work in Hitchcock’s filmography and the annals of film noir, “I Confess” is Hitchcock’s most explicitly Catholic film.
Pope Leo’s favorite films—and what ‘America’ said about them
Pope Leo delighted Catholic cinephiles this week by revealing his four favorite films, in anticipation of his upcoming meeting with members of the “World of Cinema” at the Vatican.
Interview: Comedian John Candy’s daughter on new documentary about her father’s legacy
Many of Candy’s most popular and famous characters have a charm that makes the viewer feel like he’s your own father. “I think he kind of was recreating the relationship that he might not have had with his dad, or he wished he would have had with his dad,” Ms. Candy said.
‘The Night of the Hunter’: a horror movie without special effects
In ”The Night of the Hunter,” the world is frightening and it’s often the most innocent who suffer. But grace persists.
The complicated relationship between Catholics and ‘The Conjuring’ horror franchise
“The Conjuring: Last Rites,” like others films in the series, capitalizes on Catholic imagery without Catholic endorsement.
In ‘Blue Moon,’ Ethan Hawke surprises as a melancholy Broadway legend
The new movie “Blue Moon,” named for one of Rodgers & Hart’s most enduring tunes, is set at the pivot between these two eras—from Jazz Age sass and Depression-era gloom to post-World War II patriotism and conformity.
In new biopic ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere,’ a rock god becomes a man
In the standard rock star narrative, ambitious but otherwise unremarkable young men toil mightily in obscurity for success and eventually triumph to become rock gods. “Springsteen” flips that script.














