America: The National Catholic Weekly

Animal Planet
The wry pleasures of 'Fantastic Mr. Fox'
FILM
BY Kerry Weber
Looking Beyond Redemption
"Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire"
FILM
BY John Anderson
Alien Nation
The miniseries "V" returns on ABC
TELEVISION
BY Regina Nigro
Let There Be Comics
The Book of Genesis according to R. Crumb
ART
BY Jon M. Sweeney
American Master
The windows and landscapes of John LaFarge
ART
BY Leo J. O'Donovan
The Undeciders
'Hamlet,' 'A Steady Rain' and 'Superior Donuts'
THEATER
BY Rob Weinert-Kendt
Portrait of the Artist
John Keats is a man in love in "Bright Star"
FILM
BY Maurice Timothy Reidy
Kandinsky's Creations
Notes on a spiritual revolution
ART
BY Leo J. O'Donovan
Anemic
TELEVISION
BY Jake Martin
Job in Minnesota
"A Serious Man" tackles the problem of suffering
FILM
BY John Anderson
Ricky Almighty
The dour satire of "The Invention of Lying"
FILM
BY Harry Forbes
Stairway to Heaven
Can you be saved by rock ’n’ roll?
MUSIC
BY Tom Beaudoin and Brian Robinette
Art of Transcendence
Two new films examine the Jewish experience
FILM
BY Robert E. Lauder
Capital Crimes
FILM
BY Thomas Massaro
The Kids Are All Right
'Gossip Girl' and 'Glee' portray generation next
TELEVISION
BY Jake Martin
Neverland Awaits
Is Michael Jackson our future?
MUSIC
BY Terrance W. Klein
A Digital Defense
NEW MEDIA
BY David E. Nantais
Generation Text
The dark digital ages: 13-17
NEW MEDIA
BY Mark Bauerlein
After Alice
The emergence of a new kind of Catholic novel
BOOKS
BY Robert E. Lauder
Manhattan Gothic
‘Mad Men’ and the shock of recognition
TELEVISION
BY Terrance W. Klein
Divine Direction
A conversation with Liv Ullmann
THEATER
BY Robert E. Lauder
Love in the Time of Irony
'(500) Days of Summer' examines postmodern romance
FILM
BY Jake Martin
The Road to Redemption
TNT's 'Saving Grace'
TELEVISION
BY Regina Nigro
The Bard of Rome?
Shakespeare and the Catholic question
IDEAS
BY Kathleen Doherty Fenty
The Biblical Difference
'District 9' and the Other
FILM
BY Robert Barron
Seeing Scripture
An exhibit of biblical illustrations is rife with political and religious tension.
ART
BY Leo J. O'Donovan
Conspiracy Theory
'Equivocation' scrutinizes the Gunpowder Plot.
THEATER
BY John Coleman
The Joy of Julia
Nora Ephron's tribute to the godmother of American cuisine
FILM
BY Emily Brennan
Continents Away
African and Oceanic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
ART
BY Leo J. O'Donovan
Screening Priests
From Spencer Tracy to Ewan McGregor
FILM
BY Guerric DeBona, O.S.B.
More than Super
Searching for Christ in a comic book culture
IDEAS
BY Richard Leonard
Michelangelo for Moderns
The Art of James Ensor
ART
BY Jon M. Sweeney
Cops and Robbers
Michael Mann's 'Public Enemies'
FILM
BY Richard A. Blake
As It Was in the Beginning
The timeless charms of 'The Brothers Bloom'
FILM
BY Jake Martin
Accept the Absurd
Beckett and Kierkegaard, Godot and Christ
IDEAS
BY Robert E. Lauder
A Terrible Vengeance
Scapegoating and 'The Stoning of Soraya M.'
FILM
BY Robert Barron
A War against Women
The corporeal force of 'Ruined'
THEATER
BY Rob Weinert-Kendt
Bromanity
Familial love in 'How I Met Your Mother'
TELEVISION
BY Regina Nigro
Meeting the Trinity
The phenomenon of William Paul Young's 'The Shack'
BOOKS
BY David E. Nantais
Grace and the Grotesque
Flannery O'Connor on the page and screen
IDEAS
BY Jon M. Sweeney
The Unknown Delacroix
The religious imagination of a Romantic painter
ART
BY Joyce C. Polistena
An Undertaking
The unexpected beauty of 'Goodbye Solo'
FILM
BY John A. Coleman
Everyone Loves Tina
A love letter to '30 Rock'
TELEVISION
BY Jake Martin
YouTube Heresies
On today's virtual Areopagus
NEW MEDIA
BY Robert Barron
Silly
The absurdity of 'Angels & Demons'
FILM
BY Richard Leonard
As It Really Is
Spriituality, seeing and the art of William Kentridge
ART
BY John A. Coleman
Facebooked
A critique of the cultural phenomenon
NEW MEDIA
BY Jake Martin
Sanctity and the Secular
Have contemporary artists lost the idea of holiness?
IDEAS
BY Robert E. Lauder
Kings and Queens
'Mary Stuart' and 'Enter the King'
THEATER
BY Rob Weinert-Kendt
The Dead Live
The Easter hope of Maurice Denis's 'Three Marys'
ART
BY Karen Sue Smith
A Snapshot of Hell
Matteo Garrone’s “Gomorra”
FILM
BY John Coleman
Righteous Among Women
Dan Gordon's 'Irena's Vow': a review and an interview
THEATER
BY Michael V. Tueth
Cezanne's Ordinary Brilliance
ART
BY Leo J. O'Donovan
Broken Down
TELEVISION
A Call for Collegiality
IDEAS
BY Francis A. Sullivan, John J. Strynkowski and John W. O'Malley
Christ in the Garden
ART
BY Franco Mormando
The Reader
NEW MEDIA
BY Carolyn Martin Buscarino
Secrets
FILM
BY Richard A. Blake
The Heavenly City
TELEVISION
BY Jeremy Zipple
A Vacillating Believer
BOOKS
BY Ann M. Begley
Welcome to the 'Dollhouse'
TELEVISION
BY Jim McDermott, S.J.
Jesus the Prisoner
ART
BY John Coleman
The Everyday Cross
ART
BY Leo O'Donovan
God Talk Off Broadway
THEATER
BY Rob Weinert-Kendt
The Look of the Irish
ART
BY Jon M. Sweeney
Unburied Treasures
ART
BY Leo J. O'Donovan
Cashing In
FILM
BY Danny Boyle's 'Slumdog Millionaire'
Fyodor's World
BOOKS
BY Paul Contino