A popular, cleft-chinned leading man in the 1950s and ’60s, Kirk Douglas cemented his legacy with his starring role in the 1960 movie Spartacus. He died Wednesday at age 103, his family confirmed.

What else did he accomplish? Douglas also was an acclaimed producer and director. He received three Oscar nominations for best actor, and the Academy Awards honored him in 1996 for his overall contribution to the movie industry. He authored 11 books.

Are critical race theory and intersectionality (CRT/I) the kind of “hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition,” that Colossians 2:8 warns us about? Or are they useful secular tools by which we can explain Biblical principles, akin to Paul quoting pagan teachers to reason with the Epicureans?

That’s the question at the heart of a fraught debate within the largest Protestant denomination in the United States. It’s also the subject of a new documentary from Founders Ministries, By What Standard?. 

Somebody had to know what was going on. It wasn’t poor Kate (played by Mackenzie Davis), the nanny in the new film The Turning taking care of two children on an expansive estate haunted by mysterious apparitions. 

It wasn’t this reviewer, either, confounded by the film’s abrupt ending. One assumes that “somebody” was Hollywood veteran Steven Spielberg, the film’s executive producer.

A new film about the Vietnam War reminds us that even though we can’t change the past, sometimes it can change us.

Dolittle, based on Hugh Lofting’s classic children’s stories, feels like two different movies. The first third embodies all the prickly, off-kilter charm an Anglophile’s heart could desire. It opens, as all English children’s stories should, in a wild wood hiding a mysterious, crumbling manor.

Each generation looks into its rearview mirror to see stories of past racial injustices it must tell. In 1960, Harper Lee published To Kill a Mockingbird, a story revolving around a black man falsely accused of rape in 1930s Alabama. The actual murders of three civil rights activists in 1964 was the loose basis for Mississippi Burning, nominated in 1989 for multiple Oscars. 

The Warner Bros. comic book origin story Joker racked up 11 Oscar nominations on Monday, including best picture, best director for Todd Phillips, and best actor for Joaquin Phoenix. Joker will compete for the year’s top film against World War I epic 1917, Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood, Ford v.