Intro The 2014 film, “Deliver Us From Evil”, is a harrowing tale of a NYC police sergeant who becomes involved in a case that goes beyond the boundaries of what we would consider “normal”. Ralph Sarchie is the officer who ends up taking the connected cases that seem to have no rhyme or reason followed…

Catholicism and the Importance of Family Relationships in Catholicism are very important. The connections that the church helps families build is just another step of becoming closer with God. Catholicism is heavily weighted in community and togetherness. The movie “Coco” builds on these ideas by showing the relationship of Miguel and his family during the…

Abel Ferrara’s controversial 1992 film Bad Lieutenant has been heavily critiqued as campy or grotesque. Within 96 minutes, we see rape, harassment, heavy drug use, infidelity, gambling, and murder. However, this outrageous level of criminality is essential to the film’s overall goal: taking the common trope of the wayward Catholic being saved by the church,…

This is an investigation of of the tension between politics and religion through the lease of the 2020 Film Fatima, which chronicles the famous apparitions of Mary in rural Portugal in 1917 and their effects.

The Da Vinci Code: a Catholic conspiracy for the ages By: Bayley Millerov “All depictions of artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate” Dan Brown Synopsis: The Da Vinci Code is a novel written by Dan Brown in 2003 and has since been adapted into a movie in 2006 starring Tom…

Make sure that your stomach is ready and that no large meals have been consumed prior to seeing the 2018 horror film The Nun. The film starts off with the death of a nun we know little to almost nothing about hanging herself from the window of a convent where she was being chased by…

It is said that religion brings comfort and peace to the people that believe. There are two different types of comfort that religion brings upon a person, physical and mental. Physical, the church proves a safe place that allows people to forget about the outside world. This was evident when looking at John McGreevy’s article,…

Bites of demonic donkeys and otherworldly strength. The nails that held Christ to the Cross appeared in the mouths of those possessed. Frogs taking over a bedroom en masse. These are what we find ourselves facing when watching The Rite. While this is a horror film, it isn’t what I think of when I think…

Introduction: Martin Scorsese’s hit movie, The Irishman, is based on the novel I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt. The Irishman details a narrative spanning 50 years into the life of Frank Sheeran who once was an innocent truck driver who hauled sides of beef, turned into a ruthless hitman for the mob. Frank…

Whats it REALLY about? Catholics have always relished the concept of pain, giving up one’s own bodily comfort to atone for the sins they committed to God is as sensational as it is excruciating. Maggie Bett’s Novitiate (2017) not only brings this dichotomy to life but portrays it in almost pornographic detail. Novitiate is rife…