by Jason McCreery, SJ | Oct 30, 2020 | Film, Pop Culture ~ Approx. 4 mins
This article contains some spoilers for Suspiria (2018). There is a simple truth when it comes to the Resurrection: “unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit”.1 We are to be encouraged...
by Jason McCreery, SJ | Oct 22, 2020 | Film, Justice, Pop Culture, Race, Topics, TV ~ Approx. 4 mins
This article contains spoilers for the Season 2 finale of the TV series, The Boys. Last month, at the start of Season 2 of Amazon’s The Boys, I reflected on how a show about superheroes (or ‘supes’) is able to expose our human weaknesses and whether or not we choose...
by Ian Peoples, SJ | Oct 9, 2020 | Film, Justice, Pop Culture, Science & Technology, Social Media, Topics ~ Approx. 3 mins
The beginning of Social Dilemma, the recently released Netflix documentary, poses a question to set up the entire film: what is beneath all the problems we are seeing in the tech industry and the world? Computer scientist and tech ethicist, Tristan Harris, is the one...
by Jason McCreery, SJ | Sep 11, 2020 | Film, Pop Culture, TV ~ Approx. 4 mins
This article contains minor spoilers for the TV series, The Boys. What do you get when you add superheroes to American life as we know it today? Creator and show-runner of The Boys, Eric Kripke, answers with a mixture of the charisma of movie stars, the lethality of...
by Ángel Flores, SJ | Sep 1, 2020 | Current Events, Film, In the News, Justice, Pop Culture, Race, Sports, Topics ~ Approx. 4 mins
They call it “suspension of disbelief.” When an audience shuts down the inner voice which reminds them that what they’re watching is just a show, you know an actor is earning their pay. But, another important part of acting is creating a connection between the...
