Until 1996, the Irish branch of the Roman Catholic Church sent more than 30,000 “fallen women” — meaning prostitutes, single mothers, social activists, the poor and the orphaned — to Dickensian forced ...

Could it be that the Vatican’s late-summer foray into film criticism was not 100 percent objective? It could indeed. “The Magdalene Sisters” is an emotionally pungent, sociologically scathing look at ...

MISERY IS the prevailing tone in "The Magdalene Sisters," Peter Mullan's bracing yet moving drama about Irish girls who are condemned to languish away in the Magdalene asylums -- essentially laundry ...

Beads of sweat drip off the brow of a priest as he beats tribal, Irish drum music into a crowd of wedding guests. The haunting sounds continue to boom through a too-full room as we focus on Margaret ...

IFC Films continued to perch atop the iW: BOT with its release of “Camp,” maintaining the same three screens in New York and Los Angeles. Miramax, meanwhile, graced five screens for its bow of “The ...

GREENBELT Cinema has been showing Director Peter Mullan’s riveting Oscar-worthy film The Magdalene Sisters. In a country recently made aware of “clerical pedophilia” by Catholic priests, such sexual ...

Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1150848/150848" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> NPR's ...