movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Sep 07
Rungano Nyoni tells a tale of witches; Heather Lenz profiles artist Yayoi Kusama; more…
Vatican
The Letters (aka Letters from Mother Teresa) movie review: utter nunsense
A fatuous argument for Mother Teresa’s sainthood; credulous and willfully ignorant, and disregards everything about her beliefs that was nasty or skeptical.
QOTD: What institution or historical event would you mash up with what TV show or movie?
In the spirit of this hilarious Vatican-Dallas mashup…
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (review)
“Angry” doesn’t even begin to cover how this film makes me feel. It probably won’t cover you, either.
“Vatican’s ‘Harry Potter’ criticism not batshit crazy enough” –batshit crazy fundie
Of all the jawdropping things I’ve read, this may be the jawdroppingest.
Robert Pattinson, descendant of Dracula; Daniel Radcliffe heads to the Western Front; Weird Al to take on Lady Gaga?: more
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
Vatican hates ‘Avatar’ so much it pretends to forget it’s pro-environmentalism
Item: Vatican Radio has trashed Avatar for its “wink towards the pseudo-doctrines which have made ecology the religion of the millennium” (via the Telegraph). Item: L’Osservatore, the Vatican newspaper, complains that Avatar “gets bogged down by a spiritualism linked to the worship of nature” (via the Associated Press). This is funny because: In 2008, the … more…
May 15: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We all know how it is. You’d like to get out to see a new movie this weekend, but you neglected to study the conspiracy theories about the Vatican and secret medieval European societies and so you don’t know how to buy a ticket to that Tom Hanks movie. But you can have something close … more…
Angels & Demons (review)
This is a ridiculously entertaining night at the movies.
question of the day: What can the Vatican hope to accomplish with a boycott of ‘Angels and Demons’?
Rumor has it the Vatican may be planning to announce a Catholic boycott of the upcoming film Angels and Demons, opening worldwide in May: Avvenire, the Vatican’s official newspaper, ran a story in Friday’s edition noting that the church “cannot approve” of such a problematic film. The Turin daily La Stampa, meanwhile, said the Vatican … more…
