Arts & Culture

The nicest thing that can be said about the reimagined horror film “Child’s Play” (Orion), it that is just 88 minutes long. Any longer and it could be designated a method of torture.

Actor, director and playwright, George Elliot, knows the power of a story to touch souls.

Jesuit Father Richard D’Souza sees his appointment to the Vatican Observatory as a great complement to his priestly vocation. In both areas, he sees a call to search for meaning and understanding of God’s creation, he said.

Viewers’ reaction to “Shaft” (Warner Bros.), the fifth movie in a series dating back to 1971 and ultimately derived from the novel by Ernest Tidyman, will largely depend on how seriously they take its title character’s tainted personal and professional morality.

To observe the 100th birthday in 2015 of one of the most popular and influential Catholic literary figures of the 20th century, author Mary Gordon wrote a book based on a lecture which launched an exhibition of Mertonian papers.

A concert of sacred Jewish music celebrated the 25th anniversary of formal diplomatic relations between Israel and the Holy See.

Before the St. Louis Blues beat the Boston Bruins in Game 7 on June 12 to win the National Hockey League’s Stanley Cup for the first time in the team’s 52-year history, Twitter was alive with hopes for a little divine intervention for such a victory — maybe even from St. John Paul II.

With “Men in Black: International” (Columbia), director F. Gary Gray serves up an amusing and stylish reboot of the sci-fi comedy franchise that kicked off in 1997.