Sweet sixteen: Filmandreligion.com is 16 years old oday
As you can confirm I registered the domain for this website 16 years ago today. Happy birthday sweet child of mine!
Yes, God, Yes (USA, 2019)
You don’t argue with people’s feelings and experiences, right? But you can always disagree with their opinions and attempt to widen their horizons and understandings. I read (and recommend reading) two interviews with Karen...
Spiritual stepcounter, aka thoughts on “The Two Popes” (USA, 2019)
One of the key themes of The Two Popes is change vs compromise. An interesting, technical, symbol of this debate is the stepcounter, that keeps telling Pope Benedict XVI to keep going. The digital machine not just...
The 27 books added to FilmandReligion.com in August and September 2019
Here is the list of the 27 books that I posted on this site, FilmandReligion.com in August and September 2019. The image above contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to...
The 27 articles added to FilmandReligion.com in September 2019
Here is the list of the 32 article that I posted on this site, FilmandReligion.com in September 2019. African Traditional Religion and Representation: An Examination of Selected Yoruba Movies by Olatunde Oyewole Ogunbiyi (2016-05)...
Sacraments in “The Irishman” (USA, 2019)
Rites and rituals play a crucial role in Martin Scorsese‘s The Irishman. Significant screentime was devoted to formal religious sacraments such as baptisms, weddings, last rites and funerals. These were the occasions where the...
Church as the handmaiden of state (“Comrade Drakulich”, Hungary , 2019)
In theory under the Hungarian variety of communist regimes everything was relegated to serve the purpose of the lofty idea(l)s of the state. Thus the leaders of the system had to make a choice...
Orthodox Christians vs Catholics in “Last Christmas” (UK, 2019)
Do you know what religions most Croatians are? Mostly Catholics. According to the latest census at least 85% of them. Hence I got a little confused watching “Last Christmas” written by Emma Thompson, staring...
What kind of redemption will the Star Wars saga close with? Final trailer of episode IX
The final trailer of the (conceivable) last episode of the 9 movies that will make up the core of the Sta Wars universe hit YouTube, today, see below. As I was watching it I...
Phenomenology in science vs faith (Review of “Knowing”, 2009, US)
How do we know what we know? Usually faith and science gives different answer. “Knowing”, a 2009 movie with Nicolas Cage, conflates the two though and gives a phenomenologically straightforward answer. Through its storytelling...