Narrated by Martin Sheen, director Derek Watson's informative profile follows Father Rother from his birth on an Oklahoma farm through his work as a missionary in Guatemala to his 1981 death there at the hands of violent extremists.
Place one of Western civilization's foundational texts in the hands of one of the entertainment industry's greatest living auteurs and the results are likely to be impressive. And so it proves with
NEW YORK (OSV News) – The truth is out there, and director Steven Spielberg ultimately intends to tell you all about it with his grandiose, vaguely paranoid fantasy “Disclosure Day”…
NEW YORK (OSV News) – “Backrooms” (A24) is that rarity among contemporary horror films, an intelligent and unsettling psychological study that doesn’t substitute wallowing in blood for the work of…
Unable to express his romantic feelings, a socially awkward music store clerk makes a wish for a friend to fall in love with him -- but the results are anything but a dream come true.
Given the dramatic nature of his conversion and long-lasting, widespread influence, it's no surprise that the life of St. Francis has often been portrayed on film.
