by Jason McCreery | 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 Sean Barry, SJ | Sep 18, 2020 | Pop Culture, Sports ~ Approx. 4 mins
About two months ago, I received an email from the Detroit Free Press/TCF Bank Marathon staff which told me that, due to continued uncertainty caused by the pandemic, the race was canceled. The message was disappointing but entirely understandable. They did say,...
by Jason McCreery | 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 Fontánez | 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...
