Arts & Culture

“‘A Bloody Habit’ is a straightforward Gothic vampire story, but with a particular twist in that I’m pitting Dominican friars against the vampires and presenting it through the eyes of a nonbeliever,” said author, Eleanor Bourg Nicholson.

The purpose of director Malcolm D. Lee’s fitfully funny comedy “Night School” (Universal) is to allow its stars, Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish, to trade barbs. A few of their exchanges work.

While Arturo Mari may have started his professional photography career in the Vatican taking pictures of Pope Pius XII when he was just 16 years old, Mari’s work commanded the world’s attention when he accompanied history’s most travel-minded pope, St. John Paul II, on more than 100 pastoral visits outside Italy.

Actor Joe Morton was intrigued with a script with a concept: A professed atheist who podcasts his lack of belief gets a Facebook friend request from God. The atheist accepts it, and before long starts seeing how interconnected people are to each other without even realizing it.

Turning the legend of Bigfoot on its head with plenty of laughs along the way comes the animated musical comedy “Smallfoot” (Warner Bros.).

Somewhere inside writer-director Dan Fogelman’s drama “Life Itself” (Amazon/Stage 6) lurk the makings of a good movie.

Each year, 18 to 20 young Catholics from around the world are selected to participate in an intensive program that immerses them in the Holy See’s multilateral work at the U.N.

Archbishop Henryk Hoser is tasked with overseeing Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Medjugorje shrine and has outlined plans for expansion, including more Masses in different languages and facilities for young pilgrims who flock to the site of the alleged Marian apparitions.