Right and left are opposites in how they discuss God in public life. Abortion likely to remain a contentious issue for foreseeable future. The religiously unaffiliated may weaken religious progressives’ growth.

Jake Szymanski, Murray Miller, and Andy Samberg have a (very hilarious) thing against athletes. Following 2015’s 7 Days in Hell, their latest sports mockumentary for HBO, Tour de Pharmacy, finds the creative team building a cohesive worldview that skewers athletics, greed, desperation, entitlement, and a media environment that portrays these things as the height of human achievement.

Bong Joon Ho is a long-term optimist. He sees the world as a forgiving place as long as people put in the effort to make better decisions about themselves and the environment around them. The South Korean filmmaker’s work is defined by animals’ presence or absence -- Snowpiercer’s dystopic train is so bleak because of the dead, nature-free world it rumbles through.

The modern world screams at you. Pings, buzzes, and flashing screens compete for our attention all the time, reminding us of the busy work we “must” complete and of our faults. This information onslaught is exhausting. It’s enough make anyone plead for silence. Just ask Arlen (Suki Waterhouse).

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Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and Google have teamed up to form the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism.

Alien: Covenant is fundamentally a vehicle for good even if it is just an okay movie. It’s best to think of the latest Ridley Scott film as a prompt. It makes the audience think about some of life’s big questions, like whether the human race -- with all of its arrogance and malice -- deserves to reign supreme over all other life forms and if ultimate freedom is truly the best thing for us.

Wonder Woman is a film that looks at the world with clear eyes. It understands that human nature is often vile and violent. But humanity is worth saving because we accomplish tremendous things between tantrums of destruction. We must appreciate those things to have a chance of preserving them -- and maybe we can avoid the tantrums in the future, too.

People always look for ways to distrust each other. In times of extreme stress, that distrust can lead us to do things we would otherwise think are abhorrent and subhuman. But the thing is, it’s the most human thing in the world to lash out at the things we do not understand. We bury this fact about ourselves most of the time, terrified to take a peek behind the curtain of civility.

In Once Upon a Time In Venice, Steve Ford (Bruce Willis) is a private detective in Los Angeles’s Venice neighborhood. He claims to be a pillar of the community by lecturing local skateboarding kids about drugs, but he’s more of a “Do as I say, not as I do” type of fella. In reality, he’s the type of ne’er-do-well who will sleep with a barely legal girl he had been paid by her family to find.

Your family will disappoint you, occasionally in life-ruining ways. It's up to you in those moments of extreme disappointment to choose your reaction. Will you let your hurt feelings harden into a toxic relationship with the people who share your blood or will you instead create a family of people willing to work with you to resolve conflicts?

Starring: Blake Jenner, Temple Baker, Glen Powell, Tyler Hoechlin, Wyatt Russell, Zoey Deutch. Richard Linklater has long been one of filmmaking's top documenters of how relationships begin. It's all over his career, from Before Sunrise to Boyhood to Dazed and Confused. 23 years after that last movie, Linklater has released his so-called “spiritual sequel,” Everybody Wants Some!!

Starring: Sharlto Copley, Danila Kozlovsky, Haley Bennett, Tim Roth. Movies are a medium that create understanding through the specific experiences their characters are subjected to. Audiences learn to empathize or not based on the stories being told about other people. Seeing how characters react to things, looking into their eyes, getting a feel for their internal decision-making abilities, their hangups and their strengths, is how that empathy is generated.