Theatre Review: Born With Teeth

Marlowe’s mad and Shakespeare’s sad in Austin Playhouse production

"...emphasis on stakes at hand – the fear of Catholicism, of atheism, the delicate balance of patrons and information...."

April 12, 2024 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, April 5-11

"...many of Galileo’s ideas conflicted with the teachings of Catholicism. The church fathers hounded him for years, even arresting..."

April 5, 2024 Column by Rob Brezsny

How The First Omen Broke the Curse of Legacy Sequels

Arkasha Stevenson and Tim Smith on creating a horror they believe in

"...Moreover, Smith noted, this is the seat of Catholicism, “so making a film about the Antichrist, they’re not..."

April 3, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Immaculate

Sydney Sweeney excels in just-OK nun horror

"...The imagery of Roman Catholicism is ripe with the melancholy and macabre. The bones..."

March 22, 2024 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

SXSW Film Review: Immaculate

Nun horror delivers decent scares, but gets in its own way

"...The imagery of Roman Catholicism is ripe with the melancholy and macabre. The bones..."

March 13, 2024 Screens Post by Alejandra Martinez

Five Arty Reasons to Visit the Blanton

As the art museum gets an exterior makeover, don't miss the beauty inside

"...collection, Brazilian artist Meireles forges a direct connection between Catholicism, colonialism, treasure, and death in this massive and contemplative..."

May 12, 2023 Arts Column by Richard Whittaker

A Very Jewish Horror in Attachment

Filmmaker Gabriel Bier Gislason discusses cultural authenticity

"...Catholicism has ruined the supernatural. Too many horror films in..."

April 5, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Devil Conspiracy

Nineties Catholic creature feature crap flies again!

"...As someone who straddled the lines between Catholicism and horror at a young age, I was destined..."

Jan. 13, 2023 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Faith and Fatness in The Whale

Darren Aronofsky and writer Samuel D. Hunter redefine the religious movie

"...rejection of an Anglicanism that they see as just Catholicism in a different robe. "They regard that stuff as..."

Dec. 23, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Assembling a Community of Women Talking

Director Sarah Polley and producer Dede Gardner on faith and building an ensemble

"...Other than Martin Scorsese's careerlong rumination on his own Catholicism it's rare to see a film in which the..."

Dec. 23, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Old Ways

Brujeria horror has a fun Bruce Campbell vibe

"...of new twists. First off, no smells and bell Catholicism. Instead, this is brujeria, the witchcraft of Latin America,..."

Aug. 27, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan

The Pogues' frontman in all his dissolute glory

"...of whom were IRA members), farming, music, and Irish Catholicism taught young Shane via bribes of beer and cigarettes...."

Dec. 4, 2020 Movie Review by Tim Stegall

Ghost Stories Take Flight With The Night Owl

Exploring Austin's dark history with podcaster Stephen Belyeu and his team

"...life," he laughed) he doesn't feel his background in Catholicism is at odds with his passion for the paranormal..."

Oct. 23, 2020 Features Feature by Naomi Brady

Corpus Christi

Powerful Polish drama probes faith and lies

"...(Rycembel). There's no attempt at theological debate, because his Catholicism is not the issue. Instead, caught somewhere between guilt..."

April 3, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Hope Gap

A very British divorce, as Bening and Nighy head to lives apart

"...getting physical, and she dismisses her son’s abandonment of Catholicism as him just being thick: “If you understood properly,..."

March 13, 2020 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Saint Frances

SXSW 2019 light-touch comedy faces growing up at 34

"...out works (the last remaining overhang of her childhood Catholicism). There’s no way she’s keeping what she calls “a..."

March 13, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Two Popes

Hopkins and Pryce are delicately charming in the true story of a modern schism

"...world, a higher power, and perhaps God. But Roman Catholicism gets the gold star for its pomp and circumstance..."

Dec. 13, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Irishman

Scorsese's filmmaking excellence can't mask a flawed retreading of mob history

"...in the too-cute-for-its-own-good Rolling Thunder Revue, and the old-man Catholicism of Silence. Yet most especially The Irishman fits into..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Levitation Interview: Lingua Ignota

Kristin Hayter on academia, catholicism & the complexity of violence

"...Structurally, a lot of the music is influenced by Catholicism and liturgical settings, but I don’t know if the..."

Nov. 7, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Luv Doc: Being Circumspect

A stupid, irritating, or contemptible person

"...By contrast, Donald Trump is pretty much Mother Teresa..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Column by Luv Doc

The Devil and William Friedkin

The director's journey from The Exorcist to a real exorcism

"...What is seen in Catholicism as demonic possession is seen in Judaism as the..."

Jan. 5, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Nun

The Conjuring franchise heads to Romania

"...Frenchie (Bloquet), and a denouement that peddles in medieval-style Catholicism as a bundle of superpowers and trinkets. At least..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Apparition

French religious drama places miracles under the microscope

Sept. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Birdboy: The Forgotten Children

Goya-winning animation finds the demons within us all

"...the disposable society, and some not-so-subtle jabs at Spanish Catholicism. Yet, for all that brutality, and the continual sense..."

May 25, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Paper Chairs' The Repentance of Saint Joan

Patrick Shaw’s new play is less a tale of Joan of Arc’s life than a divine meditation on love lost

"...crackling natural magick that invokes equal parts witchcraft and Catholicism. Natalie George and Sadie Langenkamp's lighting design complete the..."

April 6, 2018 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

The Innocents

Polish nuns raped by soldiers during WWII trigger wider moral issues

"...the abbess cloaks her irrational notions of sin (Roman Catholicism 101) in the guise of carrying out a duty..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

"Young Latino Artists 21: Amexican@"

This exhibit is about being Mexican-American, but it will make things happen for you whatever your ethnicity

"...Mexican, so I guess I'm supposed to care about Catholicism. Doesn't matter. These alien saints talk to me, and..."

July 15, 2016 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Extreme Inequality

"...speaking from sour grapes are wrong. Only what Liberation Catholicism calls a “preferential option for the poor” can work..."

April 22, 2016 Postmarks

The Club

Chile's Oscar nominee is a dark drama about pedophile priests

"...be noted here that although The Club focuses on Catholicism, the story could easily be seen through the lens..."

March 11, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two: Mysteries Unraveled

Part two of Louis Black's interview with novelist John Irving

Nov. 13, 2015 Column by Louis Black

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