“Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.” – Luke 23:34 This seems to be the underlying message in “Fight Church,” the documentary film tying mixed martial arts (MMA) together...
In this week’s episode of True Blood Sarah, a deeply misguided character hallucinates that two of her past, now dead, mentors/lovers are vying for her soul. It mocks two and a half religions pretty well....
I just added the abstract of 30 recent articles from the Journal of Religion & Film to the site. From issues Volume 18, Issue 1 (2014), Volume 17, Issue 2 (2013), Volume 16, Issue 1 (2012) and Volume...
I was expecting Guardians of the Galaxy to be a fun and funny summer action sci-fi flick and I wasn’t disappointed. I was more surprised to find a distributed model of Christ figure in it....
In the sixth episode of the current season of True Blood, titled Karma, there was a powerful scene with strong iconography: on a white cross, an African-American woman with snake around her neck was practicing glossolalia,...
Hollywood has discovered the Bible Belt — again. Here at GetReligion, our leader — Terry Mattingly — suggested in 2011: Someone needs to copyright that phrase, “Tinseltown is rediscovering religion.” You can make some...
All of this incessant madness and irrationality is interrupted sporadically by Mike Papantino, the Christian co-host of radio programme Ring of Fire. The camera captures Papantino in his studio as he articulately despairs of...
As part of TED’s series in 2012 on “The power of film” Beeban Kidron (director of the second Bridget Jones movie) gave a speech titled “The shared wonder of film” She started off: “[…]where, in...
From another review of Calvary Similar to last year’s Philomena, Calvary emphasizes and criticizes the various facets that have wounded the Catholic Church’s public image and forever changed many people’s views of these institutions....
Filmwell, an excellent film commentary site had four posts the last ten days The wrote about an episode of the TV series Rectify titled Mazel Tov: Rectify marks the first time I have seen a...