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Hello, Goodbye Christianity
The Beatles were boomers, through and through. Their 1966 record Revolver features—along with paradigm-shifting studio trickery and…
Rule Zombie Britannia
The U.K. is isolated, as European leaders seek to beat off the instability and irrationality radiating from…
The Minecraft Effect
Jews, the late Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik observed, were given the Torah at Sinai not as mere…
Andor’s Galaxy of Greebles
Tony Gilroy’s Andor feels like Star Wars as you remember it. When I was little, my mom…
The God of Wes Anderson
The God of Francis Thompson is a stubborn God. In his seminal poem “The Hound of Heaven,”…
The Gospel Cinematic Universe
As I walked through Times Square and Jesus stared down at me from a giant illuminated billboard,…
Severance Understands Human Nature
Who are you?” That’s the opening line of Severance, one of the most successful shows in recent…
What Hollywood Can Learn from the Success of King of Kings
Here in Hollywood, the big story of the Easter season has been the outsized success of Angel…
Sleeping Through Life
Two chapters into Matthew Gasda’s The Sleepers, Mariko, a waitress and stage actress, gets into a spat…
Pius vs. Innocent
While waiting for news from the real-life conclave, the editors re-watch the 2024 feature film Conclave and…
Endless Shuffle
”The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and…
Books and Baseball
Several weeks ago, in sync with the start of Major League Baseball’s 2025 season, the University of…
The Problem with Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints
Fox Nation’s docudrama series Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints, which has been running intermittently since mid-November, aired the…
Briefly Noted
A Grand Slam for God:A Journey from Baseball Star to Catholic Priestby burke masterword on fire, 192…
How Disney Killed Snow White
Disney’s live action version of Snow White, a spectacular flop at the box office, continues to get…
