Film

Disney’s 'Hunchback' is anti-Catholic

Beneath its celebrated music and animation, Disney’s version of 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' offers a profoundly different moral universe from Victor Hugo’s original

‘Backrooms’ and the horror of postmodernism

Backrooms offers more than an unsettling horror story. Read through the lens of Christian realism, it becomes an unexpected meditation on truth, meaning and the dangers of postmodernism

“Hitch wants to come home”: Alfred Hitchcock’s final return to faith

New testimony from Jesuit priests and Hitchcock's family suggests that the director's lifelong relationship with the Catholic Church was more enduring than many biographers have claimed

Neither sinless nor divine

The new Michael Jackson biopic invites reflection on the way public admiration can rapidly turn into collective condemnation, echoing themes familiar from the Passion narrative

Why you should watch 'The Exorcist'

William Friedkin’s film remains shocking, but beneath the profanity and terror lies a profoundly Catholic vision of evil, sacrifice and grace

Death in Algiers

François Ozon’s adaptation of Albert Camus’s The Stranger captures the novel’s moral ambiguity while gently widening its perspective

Wedding-day nightmare dressed as black comedy

Zendaya and Robert Pattinson play a glamorous Manhattan couple whose wedding preparations spiral into psychological chaos after one shocking confession

The porn industry is built on childhood trauma

The adult industry’s victims were often victims long before

When ‘true crime’ becomes dark spectacle

The booming true crime genre raises questions about whether fascination with evil can slide into something morally disordered

Georgia Gilholy

Louis Theroux’s missed opportunity on the ‘manosphere’

A familiar diagnosis of the manosphere that overlooks the cultural and moral transformations underpinning its rise