Film Archives

We swim in the waters of partisan conflict, and we can hardly recognize that underneath all the posturing, strategizing, and warfare tactics is supposed to be a real vision of human flourishing.

We’re not, it turns out, a civilization of rock gods and their devotees; we’re all connected, and we all depend on each other.

What I love about the creation and inclusion of the Enola character is how much she makes sense in the Holmes family and how much she adds to the ethos of the story. 

If we struggle believing the best is yet to come, the first step is acknowledging that not all nostalgia is healthy.

We are called not to stay as we were found or as we wish we had been found, but to grow in spiritual maturity and knowledge of the Gospel; to remain focused on the past is to refuse to grow spiritually.

In spite of our drive to speed up growth and reach the goal of faith, perhaps the real goal is to trust the process. Rather than an object to be controlled, we can enjoy the blessing of time as a gift.

The Story of Fire Saga shows us how to mature past win-lose games into a form of infinite play that values process and relationships over victory.

Cuties is the product of perverse people who are perverse consumers who drive a capitalistic structure to give us what we want.

It took Sam Mendes making Skyfall and Spectre to give us a Bond to whom we could all relate.

COVID-19 has become our society’s most recent real-life monster.

The deaths of young celebrities lead to collective shock and grief because of the unique roles performers hold in society.

Choosing to play Thurgood Marshall and Black Panther while facing multiple surgeries and going through chemotherapy could not have been easy. But Chadwick Boseman understood his purpose. 

If Exodus voices our collective hunger for deliverance, it also calls us to work for deliverance, toward liberatory action.

The lesson is that if we don’t tell the true stories, if we fail to pass them down to future generations, the lies will rush into the vacuum and take over.

Even though How to Train Your Dragon should be a very silly story, sometimes very silly stories manage to say the very best things.

Alexander is redeemed, not because he deserves it, but because Eliza grants redemption to him.