Second Annual Milwaukee Muslim Film Festival
The 2nd annual Milwaukee Muslim Film Festival will show its first movie keeping with a goal of trying to dispel ‘islamophobia’. The festival will be showing five films during the next few weeks. For...
Televangelists Threaten Controversial New Film ‘Canaan Land’ That Exposes Charismatic Movement’s ‘Frauds’
‘Canaan Land,’ a feature dramatic film telling a contemporary story of an Elmer Gantryish evangelist, is in preproduction. Written and directed by former healing evangelist Richard Rossi, the film contrasts fake healers with the...
Jared Leto-Produced Cult Documentary ‘Holy Hell’ Gets May Release
FilmRise has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Will Allen’s cult documentary “Holy Hell,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The distributor will release the film theatrically on May 20. The documentary provides an...
Cool nun wants you to watch movies the Catholic Church condemned
The series opens Thursday at 8 p.m. with “The Story of Temple Drake” (1933), an adaptation of a William Faulkner novel about a woman (Miriam Hopkins) who’s raped by a gangster and becomes his...
God’s Not Dead 2: New Trailer Stars Melissa Joan Hart in Eastertime Christian Drama Movie
As an upcoming movie starring actress and director Melissa Joan Hart as a Christian teacher who is forced before a judge for answering a question about Jesus in the classroom, “God’s Not Dead 2:...
Christian Filmmakers Question YouTube’s Decision To Remove Video About Religious Persecution
Film director and producer Josh Troester is asking why YouTube removed his short movie about the persecution of Christians. According to the filmmaker, YouTube took down his work because it is inappropriate and violates...
‘Spotlight’ Shows a Community at Its Worst, and Journalism at Its Best
The team discovers that child abuse at the hands of God’s self-appointed disciples is no secret. In fact, it is widely known among Boston’s politicians, prosecutors, and other powerful parishioners who knew or suspected...
Where We Stand – The Mormon Feminists Fighting for Women’s Right to Join the Priesthood
Kristine Stolakis is a San Francisco-based documentary filmmaker who wants to make the world a better place. In a culture saturated with irony, Stolakis is a refreshing wellspring of sincerity; there is nothing cynical...
‘Global Baba’ exposes the nexus between religion and politics
A social satire,”Global Baba’ shows the treacherous ways in which con men, under the guise of religious gurus, win the blind faith of people. Directed by Manoj Tewari, it tells the story of Chillam...
Films That Explored Religious Abuses Won Big at the Academy Awards
Tonight’s winners at the 88th annual Academy Awards included a couple of films that exposed the worst practices within certain religious communities. Spotlight, the film about Boston Globe reporters who uncovered the Catholic Church...