By Any Means, by Albert W. Vogt III
Matthew 5:39 reads, “But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil. When someone strikes you on [your] right cheek, turn the other one to him as well.” When we think about Christianity, we tend to focus on the latter half of that verse, though it says essentially the same thing…
The Family, by Albert W. Vogt III
If there is one thing that annoys me about mafia films, it is any association with Catholicism. Granted, it makes some cultural, if stereotypical, sense. We typically connect organized crime with people of Italian extraction, who are predominantly Catholic. I suppose my annoyance can be blamed to a certain degree on my desire to see…
Bolt, by Albert W. Vogt III
The only reason I ever got on Facebook was to promote various ventures on which I was working. At first, it was for a now defunct history consulting firm. A few years later, as I grew in my Faith, it became a platform for me to continue the work I started as a Ph.D. student…
Monsters University, by Albert W. Vogt III
Usually, a sequel is a movie that continues the story from a previous plot. There have been some odd ways this transpired, perhaps most notably with the Star Wars franchise. When it launched in 1977, the first installment was listed as “Episode IV.” Nobody seemed to pay it much mind, and its creator, George Lucas,…
Indiscreet, by Albert W. Vogt III
A title like Indiscreet (1958) is one I would typically avoid as a practicing Catholic. Perhaps this is a function of living in a morally compromised twenty-first century, but such words seem to suggest illicit affairs. Granted, Catholicism is not about expecting perfection from people, but one does try to be a good person because…
The Lady Eve, by Albert W. Vogt III
When you are used to scrolling through movies on streaming services, you find that you can look at a thumbnail and know exactly what you are in for with a given title. Unless you are well-versed in classic cinema, perusing older movies can be trickier. In God’s eyes, eighty years or so makes little difference,…
The Wrong Missy, by Albert W. Vogt III
These days, comedy is a tricky proposition. Gone are the days when cultural insensitivity was supposedly funny. There may be some to mourn this change, but I am not one of them. The lazier evolution is seemingly to make everything as offensive as possible. The more raunchiness, scatological humor, or other aberrant behavior, the better,…
The Legionnaire 