If you were to make a slideshow about the things that pain man most, you need only borrow from the hundreds of photos that grace this biopic about famed Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado. 

Salgado, renowned for traversing the globe photographing the victims of genocide, famine, and forced migration, sits in front of the camera this time to tell us what was on his mind as he bore witness.

Watching the BBC documentary In the Footsteps of St. Peter, it’s hard to tell if host David Suchet is himself a Christian—and that’s a good thing. A host who hides his perspective not only saves himself from defending his position, he ironically wins the respect of both faithful and faithless, which Suchet and the documentary do in this case.

Rare is the movie that can eloquently address racial divisiveness without making us feel as if we just took our daily multivitamin—healthy but flavorless. Black or White (PG-13 for strong language) is this year’s vitamin. Acting heavyweights Kevin Costner and Octavia Spencer take care of the eloquence—giving nuanced and deeply felt performances—but it is not enough for a film that boils down to a melodramatic public service announcement with our nation’s ongoing racial tensions as the backdrop.

WASHINGTON—Tens of thousands turned out on the National Mall today as part of the March for Life, the pro-life movement’s annual rally protesting abortion on the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

WORLD readers primarily know Max McLeanfor his starring role in a stage adaption of C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, but his stage adaptation of Lewis’s The Great Divorce is now on national tour. Reviewer Juliana Chan Erikson caught up with it in Washington, D.C.

If you can avert your eyes from the scenes of men axing off arms, forgive the strong foul language, and keep an open mind while watching a dystopian society unravel, the R-rated, post-apocalyptic Snowpiercer, now out on DVD, offers a scintillating look at mankind at its cruelest.