John Dougherty

Catholic writer, educator, dad. Catholic Movie Club column & film reviews @americamag. More work at @ncronline, @jesuitnews, @IGsolidarityNET, @MillennialJourn

[John Dougherty @JohnDoc23]

It’s interesting to note where you do see aliens: largely on the margins. The Senate is an exception, of course, but that’s part of the Empire’s mask of republicanism and we know it’s getting eradicated in the very near future

[John Dougherty @JohnDoc23]

I always read it as a sign of the brutal and systemic segregation enforced by the Empire. Obviously a few places where it seems silly (and the real reason is definitely “budget”) but overall I think that’s a defensible read

[Jasmine “CEO of Olive Silverlock” Tracy 🍉 @MegaMekaLesbian]

Love Andor to bits I need to make that clear but I’ve never seen an actually good reasoning for the lack of aliens beyond “it’s grownup” or “it’d be too hard”. It’s fine to have like. A criticism of an otherwise *stellar* show

[John Dougherty @JohnDoc23]

Even Narkina 5: *of course* there aren’t any aliens there. The aliens are in other prison camps, probably much worse. They probably don’t even waste the time tricking them into thinking they’re getting out

[Immortan Joe Mazzulla @normal_jake_]

Andor should have had a 4 season subplot where Cassian wears a wig and glasses and marries Krennic’s secretary enabling him to steal the location of the Death Star plans

[Jennifer A. Frey @jennfrey]

It was clear for thousands of years that the cultivation of our humanity was the most important project we could undertake. The fact that the value of this is no longer legible to us--that we see no "point" to education beyond earning a wage--is the real crisis.

[John Dougherty @JohnDoc23]

Someone really looked at MICHAEL and thought “Hmmm how can I make this MORE evil?”

[Oluwatimileyin✨🦋 @Timmysofine]

Last night, they played 'Michael Jackson' the movie in heaven where MJ, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Walker and several others watched.

[Séamus Malekafzali @Seamus_Malek]

The US ambassador to Lebanon says that he has received word from Israel that they would spare Christian villages in south Lebanon, but they could not "guarantee" even this.

Shia villages, presumably, will be ethnically cleansed and destroyed without opposition.

[Siddhant Adlakha @SiddhantAdlakha]

*pop*

[@RobertEllsberg @RobertEllsberg]

Jesuit martyr Luis Espinal Camps. My reflection in @GiveUsThisDayLP “Whosoever does not have the courage to speak on behalf of other people does not have the right to speak with God.”

[kateyrich @kateyrich]

Just an undeniable relief that both Ryan Coogler and Paul Thomas Anderson finally have Oscars

[Sam Adler-Bell @SamAdlerBell]

adults are supposed to reckon with this feeling — the sense that the world was whole, sensible, and suffused with meaning in childhood and no longer is — by reading novels and thinking about death and cultivating some irony about life. I suspect these guys don't do those things.

[Busted Halo @BustedHalo]

You’ve seen religious movies before, but have you ever prayed with a film like #Barbie or #Moonlight? In this article, @JohnDoc23 shares how to pray through a movie with Cinema Divina. Read here: https://t.co/M7L91oHqER

[John Dougherty @JohnDoc23]

Well that and how hard it seems to be for anyone to get to the stage

[John Dougherty @JohnDoc23]

The funniest running thread of this ceremony is how deadset CBS is on getting movie dorks into UFC #GoldenGlobes2026

[alex bronzini-vender @alexbronzini]

Yeah why aren’t Columbia students demanding that the university divest from the Islamic Republic and cut partnerships with Iranian universities?

[John Dougherty @JohnDoc23]

Anyway you can find my very positive review of THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE, a weird, beautiful, stunning film, for @americamag below:

https://t.co/8iMbcl7fYR

[Variety @Variety]

The Worst Movies of 2025
https://t.co/2opk2NHGOo

[John Dougherty @JohnDoc23]

Read my review of WAKE UP DEAD MAN, the fantastic new @KnivesOut movie from @rianjohnson which is, among other things, about what it means for a priest to act in persona Christi

[America Magazine @americamag]

“Wake Up Dead Man” leaves us with an important question once the mystery has been solved: What sort of church do we want, led by what kind of shepherds?

https://t.co/sAmXmwp0Tj