While the Christmas story is Marvel-like in the sense that it explains Jesus’s supernatural powers by showing us his supernatural origins, it’s not fictional.

Now that Ronin is “out there” again, Clint can’t let the wrath reserved for Ronin fall on someone else, let alone a kid who needs his help. 

So it is with the “plot” of spiritual warfare throughout human history. Like Miss Sloane, God begins his story with a monologue of such significance that it shapes and reveals all that is to come.

Eternals is a movie that purports to be about human exceptionalism, but doesn’t give us anything exceptional about humans to cheer for.

You have to choose a few things, sacrifice everything else, and deal with the inevitable sense of loss that results.

How do you imprint a memory onto celluloid? Kenneth Branagh attempts to answer that question with his latest film, Belfast.

Last Chance U shows us that when our options are spent, when punishment doesn’t work, and when there’s little hope left, we need love and grace.

Put on your dapper clothes and sit in the geometrically perfect room of your choice for a review of Wes Anderson’s, “The French Dispatch.”

We have a guest for our Frankenstein finale!

Immaturity and innocence must die, Dune says, for children to become adults.

Halloween is receding into the mists of the past, but it’s never too late to enjoy a spooky movie: Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho.

Thank God for the small comforts and consolations that pierce us to the heart with joy—the little things.

If the will of God is certain, do our daily actions matter? Erin and Hannah explore the role of destiny and free will in this episode of Persuasion.

When the God you preach is nothing more than a simulacrum of your own shadow, it’s easy to justify wrongs against the least of these for your own ends.

First Cow and Nomadland offer their characters to us as fellow travelers on the road of life, who know that home isn’t just a place, it’s friendship.

Erin and Hannah explore various ways we respond to our own mistakes and failures.