Fleabag is a British comedy series based on the one-woman play by Phoebe Waller-Bridge under the same name. The television show stars Waller-Bridge herself as Fleabag, an angry, confused, and grieving woman in London. Throughout two seasons, the audience watches Fleabag attempt to pull her life back together after the death of her best friend,…

Claire Farhi Meryl Streep as Sister Aloysius and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Father Flynn John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt, released as a play in 2004 and then a movie four years later, surely shrouds the audience and characters in uncertainty. Staged in 1964 at St. Nicholas Catholic School, stern Sister Aloysius and warm-hearted Sister James investigate…

Summary Macario, a 1960 film directed by Roberto Gavaldón (inspired by B. Taverns novela of the same name) follows the story of Macario, a poor indigenous laborer who struggles not only to sustain his wife and five children through his job as a woodcutter but also struggles with his own dreams and moralities, in an…

This life be over soon. Heaven lasts always   – Celie (The Color Purple 44:40-44:47)   ‘A story about two sisters, is usually the first thing you’ll see when looking up the plot of The Color Purple. But the novel turned into a movie in 1985 is so much more than just a story about two…

By Elle Ragan Violence and suffering are central to Catholicism –– from soul harvesting of the Mohawk people, the origins of the Sacred Heart, and the sex abuse crisis, suffering, pain, and violence cannot be disentangled from Catholicism. Mike Flanagan’s miniseries Midnight Mass puts this violence and suffering center stage. Ultimately, Flanagan critiques the centrality…

Captain Fantastic, simply put, is a movie about a secluded family that lives in the woods and ventures into society to attempt to crash their mother’s funeral (who died of suicide) the burial she wanted. She was a self-claimed Buddhist, but her parents are Catholic and want to give her a Catholic funeral. So Why…

The story of Benedetta is about a young girl in the 17th century in Pescia, Northern Italy who lives her whole life devoted to God. Most importantly, she moved into a convent at age nine in 1599 as a nun and was the Abbess of the Convent of the Mother of God from the years…

Agnes, directed by Mickey Reece, tells the story of a woman, evidently named Agnes, who lives as a sister of the Catholic faith at the Santa Theresa convent. When she starts to display erratic and bizarre behavior, two religious figures head to the convent to perform an investigation and a potential exorcism. One of the…