I’ve got a bone to pick with Gravity, or with its marketing scheme at the very least. The film, a tense walk with Sandra Bullock through the worst space trip since 1979, presents itself as a sci-fi survivalist nightmare, think Open Water in orbit…
When a film is nominated for an Oscar — let alone if it wins — it gets a big financial boost. Some movies are made…
Home for the holidays, I told my mother that my students couldn’t believe I was in my thirties. Her response without missing a beat was,…
The first images of the monks’ daily lives in Of Gods and Men are peaceful ones: They tend to gardens, pour jars of golden honey,…
Murder, sex, war, love and prayer. The subject matters of five short films you’ll catch glimpses of if you’re tuning in to the Oscars this…
You’d think they would have given Up by now. After two consecutive years of getting An Education in Oscar prognosticating, Fr. Jim Martin SJ and…
Morgan Spurlock gained fame and an Oscar nomination by becoming a human guinea pig in the documentary Super Size Me in which he ate nothing…
