• October 27, 2024
• At Home, Thriller

Richard Harris’s 2016 page-turner novel is now a cinematic papal thriller that is more timely and will probably be more polarizing than I’m sure he could have imagined. The...

• October 6, 2023
• At Home, Horror, Thriller

Victor Fielding (Leslie Odom, Jr.), a single dad with a 12-year-old daughter, has good reason to have lost religion. He saw his pregnant wife die while they were on...

• April 1, 2023
• At Home, Documentary

Early in In Viaggio, a Coast Guard radar antenna spins in the night, a stark visual accompanied only by the harrowing audio of desperate migrants pleading for help as...

• September 19, 2021
• At Home, Drama

Tammy Faye (Jessica Chastain) and Jim Bakker (Andrew Garfield) meet as chipmunk-cheeked cheery Bible students who want to emphasize Jesus’ love versus the typical sin-and-hellfire style of preaching. They...

• August 27, 2020
• At Home, Drama

As a non-Catholic, I became familiar with the Miracle at Fatima in college. I was fascinated by this story of a visit by the Virgin Mary in “modern” times...

• January 13, 2017
• At Home, Drama

It has been said that Silence is Martin Scorsese’s passion project. A fan of Shūsaku Endō’s 1966 novel, he has apparently been trying for three decades to bring the...

• October 29, 2016
• At Home, Documentary

Over ten years ago, Trinity Church in Cedar Hill, Texas (outside of Dallas) started a Halloween haunted house that was designed to literally scare the fear of Hell into...

• August 21, 2016
• At Home, Comedy

Set at American Eagle Christian High School, Saved! is the story of Mary (Jena Malone), an ordinary teen whose world is turned upside down when her boyfriend reveals that...

• August 19, 2016
• Action, At Home, Drama

Now, everyone will compare this film to the multiple-Oscar-winning 1957 epic Ben-Hur starring the majestic Charlton Heston (and his supporting cast of very white teeth). The truth is, this...

• July 12, 2016
• At Home, Documentary

Based on Lawrence Wright’s book of the almost-same name (Wright’s title throws “Hollywood” into the mix after the word “Scientology”), Gibney’s film examines how a sci-fi author in the...

• March 20, 2015
• Action, At Home, Drama

Here’s the thing: if you assume your audience already knows the story – in this case, that of Moses (Christian Bale) and the freeing of the Hebrews from slavery...

• October 1, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Western

If you’re inclined to feel put off by a film called Let God, perhaps you’d feel better about watching something called The Trail. One sounds specifically aimed at Christian...