James Will Be Playing A Religious Zealot The Catholic priest lurks in the shadows of Rosanne’s story. This chilling character is willing to do whatever it takes to preserve the purity of his flock...
Glue, glitter and feathers are at a premium in Tchindas, a beautifully shot vérité chronicle of the all-consuming Carnival preparations on São Vicente, Cape Verde’s second-most-populous island. A vivid sense of place, community and...
Chinese Taoists are angry with Chen Kaige’s new film, “Monk Comes Down the Mountain,” claiming the director is demonizing their religion. An anonymous Taoist has published a series of questions for Chen, asking the...
Long-time American music manager, concert promoter and film producer Jerry Weintraub suffered a cardiac arrest and passed away on MJuly 6 at the age of 77, the New York Times reports. Weintraub, whose television...
Don’t Look Now is one of the rarest types of films. Not only is it an unnerving thriller saturated with supernatural themes concerning grief, deceptive appearances, ESP, and acceptance of death, but it is...
A Son’s Sacrifice follows the coming-of-age story of Imran, a young first-generation Muslim American who confronts his Muslim roots and his immigrant father’s traditions, while simultaneously learning how to live in harmony in the...
One of the most interesting of these is the way the film examines the issue of nature versus nurture. Other films look at how we can break free from our upbringing, or move past...
Radical Grace follows three American nuns, united by a shared belief that faith is action, who continue to strive for justice in the shadow of a politically motivated Vatican investigation. As the relationship between...
Paradoxically there’s both a familiarity about Spiros Stathoulopoulos’ Metéora (2012) and a sense of novelty. It’s reminiscent of a number of films which do hear some similarity thematically but are very different in terms...
Puerto Rican American rapper Hamza Perez ended his life as a drug dealer 12 years ago, and started down a new path as a young Muslim.Now he’s moved to Pittsburgh’s tough North Side to...