Hail, Coen! Finding Religion in the Films of Joel & Ethan Coen
Geoffrey Pollick reviews a book about the Coen brothers alongside their new movie, Hail, Caesar!. Continue Reading →
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In the News: Biomemes, Voodoo, Elie Wiesel and more!
A round-up of recent religion and media stories in the news. Continue Reading →
Hollywood Gets God (and Tolerance) in Aruba
Jo Piazza: Film festivals are typically places where film executives schmooze amidst the selling of both movies and stars. They are not places where one goes to hear much about god or religion. The G and R words are anathema to Hollywood anyway. The town’s only use for them is in commercially viable blockbusters about exorcisms and/or murderous cults.
That’s why it seemed almost off-putting that the Aruba Film Festival, which spanned this week, would devote an entire day of their festivities to religion and tolerance.
It all began two months ago when festival organizer Giuseppe Cioccarrelli received what he describes as a “very nice” email from a young Israeli producer who made a very low budget film with a joint Israeli and Palestinian crew called “Coffee: Between Reality and Imagination.” Continue Reading →
Hollywood Houses of God
17 February 2006 When is a house of God a by-the-books house of worship? A federal lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice against the city of Hollywood once again Continue Reading →
Daily Links 30 August 2005
Jesus in Hollywood We’re long-time fans of Barbara Nicolosi‘s smart Christian movies-and-culture blog, Church of the Masses, so we’re delighted to see Barbara and her movie-exec training program, Act One, getting press Continue Reading →
God, Superstar
Barbara Nicolosi was reading screenplays for a Christian movie production company when she experienced an epiphany: “Somewhere around the 200th dreadful screenplay—most, from nice, godly people—it occurred to me that Christians Continue Reading →
God, Superstar
Barbara Nicolosi was reading screenplays for a Christian movie production company when she experienced an epiphany: “Somewhere around the 200th dreadful screenplay—most, from nice, godly people—it occurred to me that Christians Continue Reading →
Groundhog Revelations
God may have gone missing (or not), but there’s no doubting the mighty omnipresence of religion — it’s on our money and in our courts and in our classrooms, a Continue Reading →