In the luminous, though deliberately paced, drama “A Hidden Life,” writer-director Terrence Malick paints a striking and memorable portrait of Franz Jagerstatter, a devoutly Catholic Austrian farmer martyred by the Nazis for his stance as a conscientious objector.
The University of Dayton has amassed what curators believe is the largest collection of Nativity sets in North America about 3600 creches.
The upcoming movie “Just Mercy” has the potential to wake up out of a slumber the part of society that either doesn’t believe the death penalty is still in practice or chooses to ignore it.
It’s sorority sisters versus frat boys in the horror flick “Black Christmas” (Universal).
Ripped from the headlines, as the saying goes, “Bombshell” (Lionsgate) dramatizes the real-life story of the sexual harassment scandal that swamped the Fox News organization in 2016 and helped to launch the #MeToo movement.
Two books that address cultural issues and what religion has to say about it.
Playful gender-bending by video-game avatars mingles with an unexpectedly somber message about approaching death in “Jumanji: The Next Level” (Columbia).
In “The Two Popes” (Netflix), their glossy but highly speculative account of supposedly real events, screenwriter Anthony McCarten and director Fernando Meirelles ill-advisedly try to extol Pope Francis by trashing retired Pope Benedict XVI.
