Articles on Film and Television

For Catholic readers of Lord of the Rings the test for Peter Jackson’s film trilogy of Tolkien’s masterpiece was not the excellence of the special effects, the acting, the directing the cinematography or the

The roaring success of the English television drama Downton Abbey had little to do with the grand house, the sumptuous costumes, the superb cast and intricately intriguing storyline. Having just finished watching the final

When I was studying screenwriting we spent a good deal of time analyzing the construction of characters for our story. Those who do not create stories may wonder how characters are imagined and brought

With the HBO series The Young Pope (reviewed by Tyler Blanski) the world has been taken once again into the irresistible intrigues of the papacy and the Vatican. With its venerable and sometimes horrendous history, the

Propaganda, Protest and Patriotism Every story is a love story. That is to say, there is passion in pictures. There is heart in art, and emotion in motion pictures. To capture the imagination the

Shakespeare and the Movies by Fr Dwight Longenecker Would Shakespeare have loved the movies? Of course he would! He was an Elizabethan version of one of those screenwriters from the golden age of Hollywood--sleeves