Publications

It used to be that Warner Brothers cartoons were an antidote to the unbearable sugary fakery of Disney and his…

24 7: Twenty Four Seven, directed by Shane Meadows, is a strange sort of 90s version of the old-fashioned boxing…

Poor Oscar Wilde! In death as in life he has been defined by his sexuality. To his contemporaries, all that…

The “new evangelization” is one of the signature themes of the pontificate of John Paul II. Addressing the bishops of…

An old saw among musicians has it that the angels play Bach on high days and holy days, but Mozart…

A senior American prelate once said to me that the “greatest curse” of Catholic life since the Second Vatican Council…

Everybody knows and uses “Ockham’s razor” even if they’ve never heard of William of Ockham, the 14th century Franciscan philosopher….

Until the philistines in charge started imitating the NBA and filling the ballparks with rock-‘n’-roll between innings, baseball taught one…

When J.M. Synge’s Playboy of the Western World had its premiere in Dublin in 1907 there were riots in the…

Capitaine Conan by Bertrand Tavernier has endured the sort of distribution hell which is the fate of most foreign films,…

Character by Mike Van Diem, the Dutch winner of the Academy Award for best foreign film, is an astonishingly old…

Chinese Box by Wayne Wang stars Jeremy Irons as John, a journalist living in Hong Kong in the months leading…