Pauline Media Studies

Film & TV Reviews

Examined through diverse lenses – human, artistic, religious

The Little Prince – Wonder and Awe

The new Netflix original animated movie, The Little Prince follows an unnamed Little Girl (Mackenzie Foy) through a summer...

Three summer movies present three views of fatherhood

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Star Trek Beyond – Conviction in Hope

Fans of the original Star Trek TV series get ready to be blown away. The newest film in the...

Captain Fantastic – Radical Beliefs, Radical Living

Ben Cash (Viggo Mortensen) lives off the grid in the forests of the Pacific Northwest. He and his wife...

The Secret Life of Pets – Overcoming Self

Set in a Manhattan hi-rise, “The Secret Life of Pets,” exposes what our pets do when we walk out...

The BFG – An Unlikely Friendship

Frobscottle (noun): Giant Country’s green fizzy drink where the bubbles go down instead of up causing giggle-inducing whizzpoppers! In...

The Innocents

There’s a new film out about nuns. And we can never have too many films about nuns, of course....

Free State of Jones – We are all children of God

Back in 1991, I spent one week in Charleston, SC, on loan from my community in Alexandria, VA, to...

Finding Dory – Never Give Up (or just keep swimming!)

Pixar Animations Studios delivers another gem of a film in Finding Dory, the sequel to 2003’s popular ocean adventure,...

Me Before You

BIG FAT SPOILER WARNING: IN THE NEXT SENTENCE I AM GOING TO TELL YOU HOW THE MOVIE ENDS. Due...

The Hundred-Foot Journey – Cinema Divina Reflection

For a detailed description of Cinema Divina, please click here. Lectio: Ephesians 4:25-32 and The Hundred-Foot Journey Meditatio: Watching...

X-Men: Apocalypse – Appealing to our Better Nature

The latest film in the popular X-Men franchise falls short of its immediate predecessor, Days of Future Past, but...