If one word could sum up many of the religion-themed films at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, it could be “conversion.” In director Justin Kelly’s “I Am Michael,” journalist Michael Glatze morphs from a...
First, American Sniper raises questions about the thinness of American Civil religion, a religion in which the film version of Kyle participates. In one of the opening scenes, a young Chris Kyle slips a...
Church of Scientology combats Alex Gibney documentary with online campaign Church accuses Gibney of using discredited sources in his film Going Clear, and launches new Twitter account to drum up viral support Read more...
‘Black or White’ film espouses faith-based values and behaviors. It is not an overtly “religious” film. Other than a brief funeral scene inside of a church early in the film, there is no mention...
Last summer, Spike Lee started a Kickstarter campaign in order to have his fans fund his next film. He went on to raise $1.4 million in the campaign and started filming. The Kickstarter campaign...
Alan Watts (1915-1973), the foremost Western teacher of Zen Buddhism, collaborated with award-winning filmmaker Elda Hartley to create this elegant anthology of lyrical guided meditations into inner realities. Watts on the practice of Zen:...
Daniel Ferguson, director, who was in Mobile Tuesday for the official opening of National Geographic’s “Jerusalem,” an IMAX film and accompanying exhibit at the Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center, said he made 14 personal...
Borgman, written and directed by Dutch filmmaker Alex van Warmerdam, is one of those weird, disturbing films that’s more mentally than physically unsettling….When the film ends, we’re no less certain of just who Borgman...
Streetcar to Calcutta follows writer Fatima Shaik, who is Christian and African American, on a cinematic journey from New Orleans, the city of her birth, to Calcutta, the birthplace of the Muslim grandfather she...
The wildly popular Dolphin Tale film’s sequel, Dolphin Tale 2, has experienced a very strong opening in theaters across the nation. This sequel came as a huge surprise for people in the film industry,...