Random stuff I find interesting and you may not.
St Joseph of Cupertino The Reluctant Saint St. Joseph of Cupertino EWTN Related PostsHealing the Family Tree Pope Challenges Jesus To Debate On Whether All Religions Lead To God Will Joe Biden Put Down the Rosary Beads and Respond? Wendell Berry, the Benedict Option, and the Vocation of Fatherhood Tilma Parish Creates Irresistible … Read more
Guns & Moses | Official Teaser | Mark Feuerstein | Neal McDonough | Christopher Lloyd Guns & Moses director Sal Litvak highlighted the importance of his new film’s theatrical release, noting the rise of antisemitism and hate against people of faith. The film is an action thriller that details the journey of a … Read more
Y-Studs – Don’t Stop We’re Leavin’ – Passover Related PostsThe Gates of Gaza Dire Straits – Sultans Of Swing The Fusion of Anti-Zionism and Social Justice Democrats Go All In On Killing Jews Not Deceived by Hamas, Israel Will See This Fight Through
Most people know the story of David and Goliath. It’s an epic tale of a shepherd boy vanquishing a giant with nothing more than a pebble and sling, putting him on a path to become the most famous king of Israel. The story has war, politics, fracturing kingdoms, powerful seers, an underdog hero, and of … Read more
Dementia affects people’s abilities to use language, to understand other people’s use of language and to remember things. One common challenge is the presence of competing realities, where the person with dementia is oriented to a different time or place. These competing realities are often grounded in the person’s previous experience of a career or … Read more
States offer steep subsidies to the film industry. But special interest groups extract these concentrated benefits at the cost of jobs in every other field. . . . According to the New York Times, a total of 38 states offered film subsidies in 2024, five of whom started doing so after 2022. While fewer than … Read more
For generations, Shakespeare remained the Bard of a blessed land, ruled by a beloved Queen worshipped by her subjects. Such was the Tudor legend passed on through the centuries. Unfortunately, the reality uncovered by historians is less attractive. Shakespeare’s England was in fact an age of terror and persecution, surveillance and brutal executions for those … Read more
THE SUN WARMED Alice Volpitta’s cheeks as she turned her face toward the clear April sky. She and a co-worker at Blue Water Baltimore, an environmental nonprofit Volpitta calls a “water watchdog,” had spent the morning collecting samples. It was their first outing since winter. They steered their boat, the Muckraker, to one of their … Read more
The filmmakers lacked the confidence to portray faithfully the religious motivations of a great saint. Why is that when some secular person says something positive about religion, people get interested? That “the secular case for God” sells better than the religious case for God says something about our impoverished culture. When Saint Augustine is quoted … Read more
The 2018 film, All is True, starring Kenneth Branagh as William Shakespeare and Ian McKellen as Shakespeare’s patron, the Earl of Southampton, purports to be a depiction of the Bard’s final years in Stratford following his retirement from the London stage. Making no effort to remain true to the known facts of Shakespeare’s life, preferring … Read more
You love them. You hate them. You love to hate them. Yes, we are talking about Jesus movies, Hollywood’s generally muddled attempts at portraying the life and mission of our Lord Jesus Christ on screen. What does Hollywood do right when depicting our Lord? Where do they bomb? Who has done well, and who has … Read more
William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream The Rustic Mechanicals, West Virginia’s Shakespeare troupe Patreon Related PostsShakespeare Oglebay Festival of Lights 2025 Was Shakespeare Catholic? America should be more like West Virginia Shakespeare’s Farewell
Hollywood is Joe Biden making TikTok videos. It’s an industry that was once creatively revolutionary, but now only puts on an appearance of aspiring to a political revolution. As long as the revolution doesn’t interfere with its tax credits and Chinese box office. Behind the wokeness is a brutal war between agents, producers, writers, directors, … Read more
My general rule is that if an activity is dangerous enough to require wearing a mask then it is dangerous enough to avoid altogether. I wouldn’t go to a Broadway show, for example, because they’re telling me that it isn’t safe (masks are required as well as vaccine paper checks) and nothing stops me from … Read more
William Shakespeare is arguably the greatest writer who ever lived. For those of us who have long admired the brilliance of his work and its healthy Christian morality, the growing evidence that he was a believing Catholic in very anti-Catholic times is very exciting. Broadly speaking, the evidence for Shakespeare’s Catholicism is biographical, historical and … Read more
We live in a golden age of content. Granted, not all of it is great. But it takes little more than a phone and a few key subscriptions to access decades worth of films and television shows from the comfort of anywhere you can get an Internet connection. Sadly, the same cannot be said for … Read more
The comedies of Preston Sturges w/ Anthony Esolen | Criteria: The Catholic Film Podcast Poet, translator and cultural commentator Anthony Esolen joins James and Thomas to discuss one of his favorite filmmakers in the genre of “screwball comedy”, Preston Sturges. Sturges wrote and directed eight films between 1940 and 1945, seven of which … Read more
“Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours…. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville … Read more
When the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools to in-person learning in the spring of 2020, parents across America began to see firsthand what their kids were learning via Zoom meetings and other virtual platforms. One of those parents, Jill Simonian of California, didn’t like what she saw. Simonian decided to speak out. She began posting on … Read more
Blockbusterization out of desperation. The pandemic just accelerated the structural change by a quantum leap. The number of movie tickets sold in the US have been on the decline for nearly two decades, despite population growth. They’ve gotten hammered by how Americans increasingly watch movies: at home. A slew of competitors with their own studies … Read more
O Holy Night | Celtic Worship Celtic Worship YouTube Channel Related PostsRemy: Try That in a Large Town (Jason Aldean Parody) Poseurs Gloria In Excelsis Deo A Young Catholic Discovers the Power of Traditional Sacred Music Behold Two Paintings That Show A Miraculous Christmas Meeting
The original Star Trek was too wise to be cynical. Bright gold: James T. Kirk, dashing and romantic. Firehouse red: the working class chief engineer, Beam-Me-Up-Scotty. Deep blue: the alien logician with pointed ears and bespoke catchphrase, Mr. Spock. Star Trek is one of those things where, even if you’ve never seen it, you could … Read more
Black lives matter to Disney. We know this because the super-woke corporate giant never tires of telling us. Like others in the capitalist club it spent a great deal of 2020, the year of the George Floyd protests, telling the world how cool it was with BLM. It even released a 30-second TV commercial in … Read more
Where To Watch Free Movies Online When you start looking for free movies online, it won’t be long before you start coming across less-than-reputable websites. Some may actually require paid memberships or subscriptions while others provide access to pirated content. But there are several websites, apps and streaming services that you can use to watch … Read more
Monty Python comedian John Cleese has pulled out of a scheduled speech at Cambridge University, announcing that he is canceling himself “before someone else does.” Cleese, who ironically was scheduled to bring along a film crew as part of a documentary on cancel culture called “Cancel Me,” didn’t even make it that far after the … Read more