Rites and rituals play a crucial role in Martin Scorsese‘s The Irishman. Significant screentime was devoted to formal religious sacraments such as baptisms, weddings, last rites and funerals. These were the occasions where the...
In theory under the Hungarian variety of communist regimes everything was relegated to serve the purpose of the lofty idea(l)s of the state. Thus the leaders of the system had to make a choice...
Do you know what religions most Croatians are? Mostly Catholics. According to the latest census at least 85% of them. Hence I got a little confused watching “Last Christmas” written by Emma Thompson, staring...
The final trailer of the (conceivable) last episode of the 9 movies that will make up the core of the Sta Wars universe hit YouTube, today, see below. As I was watching it I...
How do we know what we know? Usually faith and science gives different answer. “Knowing”, a 2009 movie with Nicolas Cage, conflates the two though and gives a phenomenologically straightforward answer. Through its storytelling...
Watch online, buy DVD, buy Blu-ray She is one of the most transformative yet misunderstood women in history, alternately vilified as a sinner and canonized as a saint. For the first time, the incredible...
From Remezcla It was the meeting of two titans of the Catholic faith, but aside from a few souls, the world would otherwise never know that these figures once peaceably exchanged ideas about religion...
From The Guardian Film-maker has spent three years showing how the colander-wearing religion is more than a joke… All in all, it is shaping up to be quite a big few months for the...
From the New York Times Whatever the merits of its source material (Steve Erickson’s well-received 2007 novel), this Franco-filled project — aside from directing, he’s in virtually every scene, for the most part near-catatonic...
François Ozon’s Grâce à Dieu opened in France in December 2018, but is only coming to the US this October The official synopsis from the official site: Alexandre lives in Lyon with his wife...