Religion Dispatches
A younger Paul Schrader might have chosen to end this film, which many critics are calling his masterpiece, in apocalyptic violence. But I don’t think it’s quite right to conclude that Schrader has simply mellowed in his eighth decade.
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Warning: numerous spoilers ahead. “Who will release me from the body of this death?” This…
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Cinema and religion are never far apart—both bring light to darkened places. Sometimes the illumination…
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What audiences learn by the end of the film is that evil cannot be located in a single demigod, villain or agent.
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Today, after our invasion of Iraq led to the creation of Daesh, and after our silence in the face of murderous actions emboldened the Asad regime, we are intimately linked to the death of Syrians.
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I never thought I’d write something like this, but My Scientology Movie actually had me…
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Naz & Maalik is a groundbreaking film. Featuring two black, gay Muslim teenage boys, the film, written…
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Anyone who saw last year’s standout documentary, Jesse Moss’ The Overnighters, probably noted a brief, sober coda to…
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Five months before the big-budget Left Behind reboot hit theaters, evangelical movie producer Paul Lalonde…
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Calvary posits that faith is mostly a fear of death, but in reality, like Gleeson’s performance, faith is a living, changing, malleable thing. His Father James helps us understand why people still need religion.
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