Noah, Mythology, and the Absentee God
With Darren Aronofsky’s Noah out in theaters, one of the major questions that’s been floating around is: Is the film accurate? The answer, honestly, depends…
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Faithful Departed: Roger Ebert
Many figures in pop culture are simply blips on our radar — people we acknowledge for a moment and then forget about. A select few,…
More Than Torture: The Faith of Zero Dark Thirty
Warning: This article contains some spoilers about the movie. It’s the perfect Hollywood plot: “the story of history’s greatest manhunt for the world’s most dangerous…
There Be Dragons
For some, it will not be possible to separate the movie There Be Dragons from their views about Opus Dei, as it tells the story of that organization’s founder, St. Josemaría Escrivá. The majority of viewers, though — whose only awareness of Opus Dei is the absurd fictional albino killer monk in Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code — will find an inspiring and moving, if at times melodramatic and muddy, film about forgiveness and the choices people make in tough times.