Arts & Culture

Director Deon Taylor’s action thriller “Black and Blue” (Screen Gems) generally succeeds in maintaining suspense about the fate of its protagonist, played by Naomie Harris.

Msgr. Stephen Rossetti relates to the players “as people not as stars or public figures” and sees his role as “ministering to people with their hopes and dreams, sorrow and difficulties. It’s why you become a priest.”

A professor of theology and religious studies at Laval University in Quebec City is trying to determine if the mask is indeed a mold of the face of the founder of the Ursuline congregation in New France.

“Christmas with the Slew Foot Family Band” will be presented Friday, Nov. 29, at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 30, at 2 p.m. at the handicapped accessible ElmerZ Event Center, 1225 Timberland Drive, Sauk Centre.

Dana Gioia, former senior vice president of General Foods, brings together many of his thoughts about art, culture and Catholicism in a handsome volume of previously published essays, interviews and meditations.

A full decade after the unusual combination of horror and comedy in “Zombieland” proved popular with both critics and audiences, the follow-up “Zombieland: Double Tap” (Columbia) arrives on screen.

For ages, philosophers have sought to settle questions about the true nature of reality, and “The Sojourn” (Iceberg Interactive) continues that quest.

The moral probing and feminist revisionism that characterized its 2014 predecessor are mostly absent from the routine follow-up “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil” (Disney).