Dispatches from AAR…Take 4
With my last day and a half turning into something of a wash, the last session I attended was a Sunday morning panel…
Dispatches from AAR…Take 3
Rounding out a long Saturday, I attended the Forum on Sports and Religion: Perspectives on the Pigskin, sponsored in part by Mercer University…
Dispatches from AAR…Take 2
The second session I attended was also sponsored by the Religion, Media, and Culture Group and was entitled Sleeper Cell: Viewing Religion, Race,…
Dispatches from AAR…Take 1
This year’s American Academy of Religion conference offered much in the way of religion and popular culture with session topics ranging from video…
A Whole Lotta’ Heart
The career path of a filmmaker or actor is often an interesting thing to track. The choices of what films to direct or…
Beyond Everything…
It has been well over a year since I read the news that the Coen brothers would be filming Cormac McCarthy’s No Country…
Let the Controversy Begin…
Given the changes that Chris Weitz is making to the adaptation of Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass, the religious controversy surrounding the film’s…
Tough, Baby, Tough
I have never really been a big fan of Ben Affleck’s acting. I enjoyed him in Dogma but only because of Kevin Smith’s…
New Dylan Biopic
Thanks to Alexander Carpenter for pointing me to this article, Seven Degrees of Bob Dylan . I am anxiously awaiting the Bay Area…