Author: jallen@hillsdale.edu

Directed by Stephen Chbosky of “Perks of Being a Wallflower,” “Dear Evan Hansen” is a screen adaptation of the six Tony award-winning Broadway musical. It stars the original actor for Evan Hansen, Ben Platt.

“Flannery: The Storied Life of the Writer from Georgia,” a new documentary by Elizabeth Coffman and Mark Bosco S.J. and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, tells the story of one of the South’s most legendary and least understood authors and her most popular short stories.

In “Calhoun: American Heretic,” Elder makes one of America’s strangest and most controversial figures familiar without understating any of his flaws. From Calhoun’s youthful presidential dreams to his acerbic middle-aged reactionism, Elder tracks his subject’s career from the South Carolina upcountry and Yale College to Washington, D.C., interspersing the stories of his political battles in...