The Religion Of Dudeism
Dudes are recognised in a new religion which is going head to head with the Jedi church as the second Hollywood-inspired faith. Despite sounding like a joke, The Church of the Latter-Day Dude, is...
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God, Religion And Bollywood: An Uneasy Relationship And How Bollywood Manages To Do It
But movies like Oh My God as well as PK changed the way religion was perceived in Bollywood as it became more daring and started asking questions. Oh My God starring Paresh Rawal as...
How biblical television & movies are the 21st-century cathedrals
As media and modernization threaten to strip us of our religious imagination these new forms of visual piety are important mediums for confirming, or challenging, our religious curiosities and convictions and bearing us forward...
How to Depict Religion Powerfully on the Screen
It’s easy to be superficial about Christianity on screen: a character’s offhand remark, a shot of a crucifix or rosary, or a quick scene of prayer does the trick. A serious screen treatment of...
Boyhood – Gender (and Religion?)
From Cinema through Sociology & Anthropology This is evident in films that try, or pretend, to portray religious characters, who embrace morality as service to others or, at least, as loving others. They risk becoming emasculated. Thus,...
As It Is In Heaven (Overbay, 2014) – Filmwell review
From Filmwell As It Is In Heaven is a hushed film; a quiet film in the way of Gitai’s Kadosh or Reygadas’ Silent Light when these films are focused on the ritual lives of...
Religion and Greek cinema
Given the popularity of religion in Greece, it is strange that very few religious films were produced over the last one hundred years and few discussions around them were ever attempted. We would suggest...
Vernon, Florida: The Stories We Tell
[…] the film has a secondary theme that I detected through its focus on the importance of religion for this small community. Indeed, we get to hear a sermon in the middle of the...
Religion story: the darker themes behind Pixar’s Toy Story
A religion is a teaching tool to help you wake up, much like Buddhism, where the actually point is to let go of the religion once you’ve woken up to the understanding that you...
HBO Prepping Bombshell Scientology Film From Oscar Winner
THR has learned that HBO, no stranger to controversy, having ushered such hot-button docs as The Case Against 8 and the Paradise Lost trilogy to the screen, is eyeing a 2015 airdate for Going...