Arts & Culture

Over the top movie based on Alan Judd’s 2003 novel “The Kaiser’s Last Kiss,” it has, as billed, Kaiser Wilhelm II (Christopher Plummer) living out the last year of his exile in the Netherlands before his 1941 death.

It is rare these days to be able to take a peek at the beginning of an institution of higher learning, especially one founded with a pastoral perspective; the reader has that privilege in “Come to Believe.”

Monkey business turns deadly serious in “War for the Planet of the Apes” (Fox), the climactic installment of the rebooted film franchise based on the work of French science-fiction author Pierre Boulle (1912-1994).

The low-budget Faustian fable that is “Wish Upon” (Broad Green) has a bullied teen girl fulfilling her earthly desires for vengeance, money, popularity and a surprisingly chaste romance in exchange for maybe her mortal soul.

Raul Rubio Munarriz, the creative director of the video game “Rime,” shares this thought: “For us as creators, we have reached the end of an era of shooting and explosions, which was all great, but now we are starting to question ourselves in the world.”

Two decades since the publication of its first book, the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling continues to draw countless readers into its pages, gaining ground among some faithful initially put off by the much-debated themes of magic and witchcraft.

The authors of these two short books narrate the lives and accomplishments of the saints. These books are devotional, suitable for spiritual reading and quiet meditation.

The elaborate artwork in the monumental buildings in the nation’s capitol illustrates virtue and features several religious figures, highlighting the influence of religion in the history of the United States.