Criteria: The Catholic Film Podcast

A hard world for little things: The Night of the Hunter (1955)

Hitchcock's I Confess and the world's failure to understand priesthood

The Ritual portrays exorcism accurately, but is stuck in genre cliches

Fragmented sexuality in Malick's To the Wonder, Knight of Cups, & Song to Song

Crucifixion darkness: Barabbas (1961)

A holy fool: The Island (2006)

Terrence Malick and the Knights of Columbus: Voyage of Time (2016)

The Marx Brothers w/ James Matthew Wilson

"I am a human being": The Elephant Man (1980), w/ Andrew Petiprin

In a Lonely Place (1950)

New birth for humanity: Children of Men (2006) w/ Timothy Reckart

Job and St. Augustine in one film: The Tree of Life (2011)

Freedom in vocation: The Sound of Music (1965)

The Chosen, Season 4: Lectio Divina or Fan Fiction?

Church Teaching on Cinema: Vatican II and Beyond

A Brighter Summer Day (1991)

Pope Pius XII on The Ideal Film, Pt. 2 (Church Teaching on Cinema)

Pope Pius XII on The Ideal Film, Pt. 1 (Church Teaching on Cinema)

Church Teaching on Cinema: Pope Pius XI

Wildcat does justice to Flannery O'Connor's faith (w/ Joshua Hren)

Malick’s humble camera: The New World (2005)

A study of pastoral prudence: Léon Morin, Priest (1961)

Studies of ambition: All About Eve, The Bad and the Beautiful

Metaphysical Malick: The Thin Red Line (1998)

Kiarostami: blurring the line between documentary and fiction

Godzilla Minus One, a profound appeal for a culture of life

Generational wounds in Tokyo Story (1953)

Popcorn with the Pope: Word on Fire on the Vatican Film List

Introduction to Terrence Malick: Badlands and Days of Heaven

Review: Killers of the Flower Moon

Wise Blood (1979): John Huston's film adaptation w/ Katy Carl

Catholic India's 'Master of Chaos'

The Age of Innocence (1993)

When "engaging the culture" means loving mediocrity

Empires of death: Apocalypto (2006)

Asteroid City: delightful, decadent, or despairing?

Caviezel's Sound of Freedom: a thriller about fighting child trafficking

We watched the WHOLE Vatican Film List

Sacrilege against Mary in the new Padre Pio film

When artists feel lonely in the Church (Livestream)

The last great silent epic: Napoleon (1927)

Livestream announcement

The Miracle Maker (1999) w/ Timothy Reckart

Rome, Open City (1945) w/ Elizabeth Lev

Can a Holocaust film offer hope? Schindler's List (1993)

Catholic review of The Chosen, Season 3

Ordet (The Word) (1955)

The Leopard (1963)

The Sacrifice (1986)

Theology of the body shop - Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)