As “part of the Vatican’s efforts to reach out beyond the Catholic Church to engage with the secular world,” Pope Leo spoke with actors and ...

The film, My Name is Bernadette (2011), focuses, almost as an obsession, on the question of whether the girl “actually” saw the Virgin Mary...

With the U.S. fed up and only 100 governments left willing to attend COP30 in Brazil on combatting carbon-emissions and the related global w...

On the very day in which a health-care company’s executive collapsed in the Oval Office, with U.S. President Trump being the only person in ...

Even though it may be tempting to summarize the virtues of ancient Rome as “might makes right” because of the emphasis, which is even in the...

The political debates concerning the accession of candidate states such as Texas, California, Alaska and even Hawaii into the U.S. were long...

The medium of film has an amazing ability to trigger emotions, even very strong ones, through dialogue, narrative, cinematography, and even ...

The Latin noun,  machina , can be translated as “machine, engine, military machine, contrivance, trick, or artifice.” The Latin word,  e , o...

In ancient Greek tragedy, it was not uncommon for a god or goddess to perform the function of a Greek (i.e., conscience) chorus at the end o...

Having recently been presented with an E.U. citizen denying the E.U. has citizens even as he admitted that he could vote for a candidate to ...

Considering the amount of screentime devoted to raw violence, it may come as a surprise that The Crow (1994) is actually about love. Not th...

“We remain committed to the principle that international borders must not be changed by force.” [1] This statement was signed by E.U. leade...

An important implication of the saying, a fish rots from the head down , is that it is important that corrupt heads be swiftly punished so u...

Released in 1976, The Omen reflects the pessimism in America in the wake of the OPEC gas shortage and President Nixon’s Watergate cover-up,...

In line with the films, The Sixth Sense (1999) and The Others (2001), Passengers (2008) centers on the (hypothetical) question of whether...