In this eminently readable book, Fr Stinissen leads us through the Bible in all its complexity, calling us to a personal relationship with the Word
Month: December 2021
The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante
Ferrante’s flashes of brilliance are undermined by long and tedious sections in this modern classic
Marvellous movies – Doctor Strange
Doctor Strange is refreshingly low-key for a Marvel movie, silly and light, never overplaying its hand.
Belmondo’s best – That Man from Rio
There is something indisputably cool about the way Jean Paul Belmondo carried himself, loose limbed and slightly vague about his surroundings, just cruising through the world
The Golden Bowl – a divisive American classic
James’ ability to dramatise the interior lives of a small group of people in such detail, and yet with beauty and pathos, is a marvel
The Ant-Man movies
Rudd maintains an everyman quality, a natural affability and dead-pan humour as Marvel’s pint-sized hero
Ruadhán and Seanan’s top 10 films: 2021 edition
The end of the year is a wonderful excuse to cast an eye over the fayre of the last 12 months.
A Winter Light – a world without God
A Winter Light is a lacerating inspection of a Lutheran pastor losing faith in God over the course of an afternoon
The Seventh Seal (1957)
The Seventh Seal (1957) is the most searching modern examination of the question of divine providence given the existence of evil
The Seventh Seal – a Catholic Culture podcast
I was lucky enough to be invited onto Catholic Culture’s film podcast, Criteria, to review The Seventh Seal. Catholic Culture … More