There’s an 85-year-old building on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles… Modeled after Rome’s Pantheon, the was built by movie moguls — Louis B. Mayer of MGM; Irving Thalberg, MGM’s production head; Carl Laemmle, founder...
It is a feature-length documentary in production, about the current incarnation of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. Kickstarter has 9 more days (via the Viral Media Lab)
The film’s subjects are familiar: Hobby Lobby, the Oregon bakers and Washington florist who refused to serve same-sex weddings (“The government shouldn’t force you to bake the cake!” audience members later argued), the Mt....
The Mad Max series shows society and culture devolve with each installment. It is about the worship of the machine and the mechanized destruction it can visit upon humanity. As the series evolves we see the...
Big news from the box office: some people released some Christian-themed movies that weren’t completely terrible. The terribleness of Christian movies is, of course, an article of faith among film critics, who reserve for...
The latest issue of Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Volume 15, Issue 1, 2014) was a Special Issue focusing on Buddhism and Film. I just added its articles to this site Pema Tseden’s Transnational Cinema:...
These four essays and this thesis was added to this site today: Religion and South Park Or How I Learned To Stop Arguing and Listen to a Midget in a Bikini Ritualism in Nigerian...
Ken Morefield’s 1More Film blog at Patheos this week covered 1 book, 1 TV show, 2 movies and offered 1 giveaway: Book: Erich Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales “Why film a story when one can write it?...
It has always been clear from Pasolini’s The Gospel According to St. Matthew that he got New Testament theology in a pretty profound, even prescient way. It took a while for Historical Jesus studies...
Check out the new cover photo for this site’s social media channels created from the covers of recent books on religion and film. Click the image below to view the full size and check our...