The link between endemic poverty and religious practice has dug a deep furrow in modern literature, particularly in the genre known as American Gothic. Though the term is specific to Grant Woods’s 1930 painting of a pioneering farming couple, it is now more descriptive of the rejection of rationality and reason, in favour of less … Read More about Devil makes mayhem
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The art of confusion
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How Catholics are responding to the leadership of Pope Francis
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Makeover for movie miracles
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The response to calls for more diversity and racial balance in casts dominates this year’s best film lists. The comic-based blockbusters have started running out of steam and are also trying to change their gender stereotypes. November provides a convenient gap to sum up the year as the pre-Oscar season … Read More about Diversity dominates year’s best films
Far from ignoring American race relations, Hollywood filmmakers have been in the thick of it for decades. The rise of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, most recently depicted in LBJ, was accompanied by such classics of the liberal conscience as To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? (1967) and In the … Read More about Race drama BlacKkKlansman packs punch
Quality films dry up in the northern hemisphere summer so the mid-winter film festivals here are a welcome alternative.
Box office success can never be guaranteed, even for blockbusters, but a lot of hype helps.
TWEETING WITH GOD by Fr Michel Remery. (Freedom Publishing Books, Melbourne, 2017). 432pp $39.00AUD (Manual $19.95AUD 56pp) Reviewed by Sr SIAN OWEN, RSJ
The theatricality of the Catholic liturgy is a natural lure for filmmakers, whether their intentions are honourable or subversive.
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