
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…
film criticism by maryann johanson | handcrafted since 1997
Rungano Nyoni tells a tale of witches; Heather Lenz profiles artist Yayoi Kusama; more…
A fatuous argument for Mother Teresa’s sainthood; credulous and willfully ignorant, and disregards everything about her beliefs that was nasty or skeptical.
In the spirit of this hilarious Vatican-Dallas mashup…
“Angry” doesn’t even begin to cover how this film makes me feel. It probably won’t cover you, either.
Of all the jawdropping things I’ve read, this may be the jawdroppingest.
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…
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…
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…
This is a ridiculously entertaining night at the movies.
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…