In Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” an ordinary electrician has a transcendent encounter—with U.F.O.s, not God. Being a kid in the summer is all about existing in an eternal ...

In 2004, the National Catholic Register and Faith & Family magazine gathered online nominations for films that best celebrate Catholic life. These are movies with specific Catholic references, not ...

With the passing of Pope Francis on Easter Monday, we've been thinking about just how much the Catholic faith is represented in cinema. Many of the greatest directors were raised Catholic; there are ...

Since 2010, film fans have celebrated November as “Noirvember,” challenging each other to dig into the film noir genre. Noir, which had its Hollywood heyday in the 1940s and ’50s, featured morally ...