Noble (Bradley, 2014)
Did I want a biopic that was critical of its heroine? Of course not. But I wanted one where she was presented as a fully realized human being. The Christina Noble represented in this...
Pray the Devil Back to Hell (DVD)
Pray the Devil Back to Hell is the inspiring story of a group of ordinary women who came together – Muslim and Christian, rich and poor, urban and rural – to end a bloody...
Will the PBS series ‘Wolf Hall’ tarnish St. Thomas More’s halo?
Sir Thomas More loses his head in this Sunday’s episode (April 26) of the acclaimed PBS historical drama, “Wolf Hall,” which is not much of a spoiler since that’s what infamously happened to More...
The Vatican Tapes – An Epic Battle Between Good and Evil
The Vatican Tapes, directed by Mark Neveldine and starring Kathleen Robertson, Djimon Hounsou, Michael Peña, and Olivia Dudley, is a movie that follows two priests examining exorcism tapes from the Vatican who stumble on...
Spanish film brings story of ‘Three Rebel Monks’ to life
A group of young adults in Spain are bringing to the big screen a novel about the renewal of the Cistercian Order by three saints who strove to recover the poverty, simplicity and austerity...
The Portrait Of The Religious Movie By An Atheist Director
Ever since its earliest days, cinema has, to quote the esteemed French critic André Bazin, “always been interested in God”. Whether it be biblical tales of all scales and budgets, stories about saints and...
‘Star Wars: Rogue One’ Will Rely Less On The Divine Power Of The Force, But That’s Not Necessarily A Bad Thing
It first dawned on me that there was more to the Star Wars film franchise than I had previously appreciated when it was announced that we’d be watching it in Hebrew school. Thinking about the film...
Status at 200 posts
I just posted the 200th entry in this blog. Good time to take stock. As of now The site’s Facebook page has 35 likes On Twitter we have 24 followers We had 8,682 sessions...
Film of REVOLUTION AND RELIGION Hits the UCLA Campus
On April 7 and April 9, the film of the Dialogue between Cornel West and Bob Avakian, REVOLUTION AND RELIGION: The Fight for Emancipation and the Role of Religion, was shown in two parts...
Documentarians Take On Religious Activism at Tribeca Film Festival
Religious faith goes to extremes at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, as documentaries introduce spiritual leaders whose activism has made them lightning rods of controversy. The subjects range from the Pakistani cleric Abdul Aziz...