NEW YORK (OSV News) – If writer-director Christopher Nolan’s impressive but uneven portrait “Oppenheimer” (Universal) is anything to go by, famed theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was a highly complex …
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – A pilgrimage to Lourdes provides the framework for the tender drama “The Miracle Club” (Sony Classics). By turns humorous and touching, director Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s delicate …
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“Way of Beauty: Rekindling Eucharistic Amazement through Visio Divina”Jem Sullivan, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing (2023)83 pages, $18.95 Most Catholics are at least familiar with the Benedictine practice of “lectio divina” …
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – Ah, time travel. It’s long been a favorite device for screenwriters who like to pile up the possibilities — and paradoxes — that might flow …
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – Can there ever be too many iterations of everybody’s favorite amalgam of arachnid and human? Not according to the sequel “Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse” (Sony) …
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It’s been a short week thanks to the Memorial Day holiday here in the U.S., but still a busy one for OSV News. Besides putting several interesting stories on the …
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – The idea of updating a classic film is always a dangerous one. But, provided there’s a better motive at work than mere hubris, it can …
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“The Beast of Bethulia Park”S.P. CaldwellGracewing Publishing, 432 pages A few years ago, while musing on the Catholic imagination and the deep need for Catholic literary fiction that goes beyond …
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Andrea Long Chu, a male who identifies as a transgender woman, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for criticism for “book reviews that scrutinize authors as well as their works, using …
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(OSV News) – The man, the pugilist, the grill, it’s all there in “Big George Foreman” (Sony). What may surprise viewers who haven’t followed the titular fighter’s career closely is …
