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Noah the movie: eco-whacko?

April 15, 2014 No Comments

Brook Wilensky-Lanford interviews Ari Handel, screen writer for the movie, Noah, on the environmental issues that some are calling eco-whacko, at

Noah: the movie and the myth

April 10, 2014 3 Comments

We are just telling stories… all of us. Darren Aronofsky, the director of the new film Noah, is telling us his story on the big screen, but he is not the first one to tell a story about a flood.

Eve and Adam: next movie blockbuster?

March 13, 2014 2 Comments

With all the Bible based movies being released,

The real Philomena

March 4, 2014 No Comments

Judy Dench as Philomena was nominated for an Oscar.

Feast day of Olympian Eric Liddell, missionary to China

February 22, 2014 No Comments

Today is the feast day of Scotsman Eric Liddell, Olympic athlete and missionary to China. In this clip from “Chariots of Fire,” Liddell, portrayed by

Faith, Desire, and Addiction in Steve McQueen’s “Shame”

January 26, 2014 No Comments

It is Oscar Season and this year Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave is one of the favorites. At Killing the Buddha, S. Brent Plate

It’s a book in which we see a community in dire poverty pushed up against a community of privilege—in which we hear about a community that is starving, and [another] that has so much excess that at times they actually want to make themselves sick so they can fit in more food.

DVDs and graphic novels

November 29, 2013 No Comments

Looking for a movie or perhaps a graphic novel? Here are two interesting lists.

The angry priest or the boorish photographer?

September 22, 2013 9 Comments

… bad photography (and unconscious photographers) can, like bad liturgy (and unconscious celebrants), get in the way. This is what happened in the video when it went viral: the conversation became about “The Angry Priest vs. The Boorish Photographers” when we should have been celebrating the couple’s marriage.

Wherever there is a fight so hungry people can eat

September 2, 2013 3 Comments

Henry Fonda as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath:

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