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Memento Mori and “The Sixth Sense”
Episode Five: Rear Window, Minority Report and Watching to Truly See – Watch With Me
With Will Smith’s Slap, We Have Snapped Out of It
“Moonstruck” Delivers a Great Ash Wednesday Homily
The Surprisingly Christlike Call of Spider-Man: No Way Home
“About a Boy” Dares to Tell of the Lonely at Christmas
“An American Pickle”: A Silly Film for the Seriously Religious
How “Godzilla vs. Kong” Tracks with Pope Francis and Laudato Si’
‘8beats’: 8 Blessings for the Spiritually Hungry of Any Background
“Resurrection” Is a Worthy, Family-Friendly Offering for Holy Week
Abortion on TV: Inefficient Life Feeds Art
“Lost in Thought” and “The Dig”: Let the Cult of the Amateur Arise!
Cinema 2020: A Few Fine Films vs. TV’s Abundance of Riches
“The War of the Worlds”: The 1950’s Sci-Fi Classic is Faith-Friendly
“The Witches”: HBO Adaptation Will Appeal to Christians, Start Conversations
Mr. Manna: In Praise of Demanding Teachers
“Pray”: The Story of Father Patrick Peyton
What I Learned From Chadwick Boseman
“The Elephant Man” and the Culture of Contempt
“Words on Bathroom Walls”: Grace Spoken Here
“Jurassic Park”: An Unexpected Parable for the Modern Age
The Oz of Quarantine and Longing for Our Real Home
“The Decadent Society”: Looking Heavenward, at Itself
Bergman’s “The Seventh Seal”: A Great Film for Our Time
Malick’s “A Hidden Life”: The Cost of Conscience (Part II)
Malick’s “A Hidden Life”: The Cost of Conscience (Part I)
Valuing Face-to-Face Friendship in an Increasingly Virtual World
“Corpus Christi”: A Fake Priest’s Christlike Effect on a Small Town
LaBeouf and Gottsagan: “The Peanut Butter Falcon” and a God Who Speaks
“This Is the Way”: The Mandalorian’s Growth in Charity
“1917” and Remembering Who We Are
The One Pope
George Bailey, Meet Thomas Merton
Bishop Barron’s USCCB Talk and the “Dark Knight” Trilogy
Scorsese, Marvel, and “Lawrence of Arabia”
“Joker” is not a political statement . . . it’s a spiritual nightmare
Bishop Barron on “The Goldfinch”
Bishop Barron on “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”
New Film from Terrence Malick to Explore the Life of Christ
Go Behind the Scenes of the Final Two “Pivotal Players“ with Bishop Barron!
Bishop Barron on “John Wick: Chapter 3”
“Ralph Breaks the Internet” and Satan‘s Attacks
The Colors of the World
Seeing Abortion
Bishop Barron on “Bird Box”
“Bird Box” and Spiritual Warfare