When Love Comes Knocking By Jonathan Turtle M. Night Shyamalan’s latest film, Knock at the Cabin, is an adaptation of Paul Tremblay’s novel The Cabin at the End of the World. On the surface it is a slow-burn apocalyptic thriller, ev... Read More...
Dead Piepers Society This article contains spoilers if you haven’t seen Dead Poets Society. By Neil Dhingra In a distinctly sad moment in Dead Poets Society (1989), Peter Weir’s film about John Keating, an inspiring if ill-fa... Read More...
Coleridge: Christina Rossetti’s Anglo-Catholicism, Chichester’s new workshop for liturgical art, and Cormac McCarthy’s contemptus mundi Coleridge is a monthly digest of significant developments in theology and the arts. By Ben Lima Music In “Spiritual Renewal and Modern Choral Music,” Michael De Sapio praises the work of American composer Morten Lauridsen in comparison with the Estonian c... Read More...
World Premiere in Wren’s Church, St. Stephen Walbrook By Graham Kings “Hi Will, your film on Bach’s Art of Fugue, with Christoph Wolff and George Ritchie, was extraordinary.” “Thanks.” “How about making a short film linking Christopher Wren, who died 300 years ... Read More...
Imposters By Hannah Matis Can a murderer be a minister? This is the question which haunts the eloquent, idiosyncratic exploration, The Minister and the Murder, by Stuart Kelly, of the strange case of the matricide and... Read More...
Encanto By Hannah Matis A year ago — was it only a year ago? — Pixar released Soul, with its gorgeous evocation of an African-American neighborhood in New York rather unexpectedly intersected by souls’ transmigrations before and after death. Heading into 2022, we n... Read More...
Audrey Hepburn and Temperance This is the sixth post in a series in which I explore what classic film actresses in iconic roles can teach us — and, more particularly, teach my now two fast-growing daughters — about the seven classic virtues... Read More...
Christian Memory and Confederate Statues: Christopher Nolan’s Tenet By Matt Boulter Discussing Christopher Nolan’s 2020 Tenet is a lot like discussing the book of Revelation: the “text” is so complicated and apparently convoluted that you are constantly wondering if you have... Read More...