Calvary review: Brendan Gleeson faces a holy terror
A weary parish priest sits in the confessional at his tiny Irish church. Someone enters, and begins to speak. But it’s not about a sin he’s committed. It’s about one he’s going to. In...
Best Seat In The House Of Worship: The Temple Hollywood Built
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...
Kickstarter: The Dalai Lama Film: “My True Religion is Kindness”
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)
Watching Rick Santorum’s New ‘Religious Liberty’ Movie
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....
High octane genuflection: theology of Mad Max
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...
A movie miracle: how Hollywood found religion
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...
Buddhism and Film (Special Issue of Contemporary Buddhism)
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:...
Articles added July 25, 2014: South Park, Nigerian Home Videos, Terrence Malick
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...
Filmwell this week: 1 book, 1 TV show, 2 movies, 1 giveaway
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?...
Filmwell: Pasolini and St. Paul
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...