Pope Leo delighted Catholic cinephiles this week by revealing his four favorite films, in anticipation of his upcoming ...

In order, he lists It’s A Wonderful Life, The Sound Of Music, Ordinary People, and La Vita È Bella ( Life Is Beautiful ). While he doesn't share why he selected the films as his favorite, many social ...

A new international film festival will premiere this week, featuring the winning submissions of young people from 116 countries. Conceived in December 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ...

In James Whale’s iconic 1931 version of “Frankenstein,” Boris Karloff imbued the monster with a poignant vulnerability.

Oscar winner Martin Scorsese recently confirmed that a script for his new movie, “A Life of Jesus,” is now finished. In an interview with The Los Angeles Times on Jan. 8, Scorsese said he co-wrote the ...

Considering how prevalent images of demonically possessed and sexually “perverse” nuns are on screen — from 1947’s “Black Narcissus” to this month’s “Agnes” — you might wonder how convents haven’t all ...

I would like to think that the time and energy I’ve devoted over the last ten years to Catholic film criticism—work I’ve always seen as an apostolate to families and individual moviegoers, especially ...

A few weeks ago the National Catholic Register ran my 2009 year-end piece with my lists of “top ten” and runner-up films. (An expanded version of the article appeared at Decent Films.) This week, I’d ...

Priests and nuns are movie buffs, too. Among them are England's Father Peter Malone, and Sister Rose Pacatte of the Daughters of St. Paul, who lives in Los Angeles. They think flicks can pep up ...