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THE RIGHTEOUS — Mark O’Brien Interview

May 3, 2022 By Leave a Comment

Click here to listen to the interview. Mark O’Brien is best known as a Canadian Screen Award-winning actor (GOALIE, CITY ON A HILL, HALT AND CATCH FIRE, MARRIAGE STORY, and BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE to name a few of his credits), but for THE RIGHTEOUS he wrote the script as well as directing… Read More »

Tagged With: absolution, black & white, Catholicism, cinematography, confession, faith, grief, guilt, Justin Chon, New Foundland

MINARI

December 30, 2020 By Leave a Comment

MINARI

MINARI is a powerful contemplation of family, faith, and the American Dream. Seen through the lens of 7-year-old David (Alan S. Kim in a stunning, unselfconscious turn), whose Korean-born parents have moved him, his older sister Anne (Noel Cho), and eventually their grandmother (scene-stealing Youn Yuh-jung) to rural 1980s Arkansas in search of a life… Read More »

Tagged With: Arkansas, faith, farming, first generation American, grandmother-grandson, immigrant family, Korean-American

BURDEN — Andrew Heckler and Robbie Brenner Interview

March 12, 2020 By Leave a Comment

BURDEN — Andrew Heckler and Robbie Brenner Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. When Andrew Heckler first heard the story of how an African-American clergyman, Rev. David E. Kennedy, shepherding a flock in a small southern town, put his principles to work in order to save the soul of a Klan member, Michael Burden, who had seen the light, he knew… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, faith, KKK, racism, redemption, South Caroline

FRANK VS. GOD — Henry Ian Cusick Interview

July 12, 2017 By Leave a Comment

FRANK VS. GOD — Henry Ian Cusick Interview

I may not have had the best phone connection when talking with Henry Ian Cusick on June 7, 2017, but his passion for intriguing roles and material that allows him to stretch as an actor came through clear as a bell. The occasion of our conversation was the online release of FRANK VS. GOD, a… Read More »

Tagged With: act of God, DRESS, faith, FRANK VS. GOD, grief, Henry Ian Cusick, humor, Inhumans, Jesus, lawsuit, Marvel Comics, MCU, Pali Road, religion, short film, Sonya Walger, Stewart Schill, THE GOSPEL OF JOHN, tornado, VISIBLE

THE SHACK

March 3, 2017 By 5 Comments

THE SHACK

THE SHACK, based on the best-selling novel of the same name, is a well-meaning and heartfelt film that dares to tackle a fiendishly tricky question. If God is good and loves us all, why does She allow evil in the world? Couched in parables and riddles, and for all its gentleness of spirit, it arrives… Read More »

Tagged With: faith, God, grief, Holy Spirit, Holy Trinity, miracles, religion, walking on water

Brit Marling & Zal Batmanglij Listen to the SOUND OF MY VOICE

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Brit Marling & Zal Batmanglij Listen to the SOUND OF MY VOICE

For co-writers Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling, making SOUND OF MY VOICE wasn’t just a labor of love, but one of passion. Batmaglij directed and Marling stars as Maggie, the enigmatic leader of a cult who claims to have come from the future to save her followers in a film that lets the audience decide… Read More »

Tagged With: apocalypse, belief, Brit Marling, cinema, cults, director, faith, fantasy, film, indie film, journalism, LaBrea Tar Pits, narrative, politics, Sci-fi, screenwriters, SOUND OF MY VOICE, time travel, Zal Batmanglij

Ang Lee Tells the LIFE OF PI

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Ang Lee Tells the LIFE OF PI

When I spoke to Ang Lee on October 15, 2012, one thing I wanted to know first was what was the spark that let him think he could film a book that had been considered unfilmable by a bevy of studios and directors. His answer revealed both his innate modesty, and his personal spark of… Read More »

Tagged With: action, adventure, Ang Lee, book to screen, cgi, director, drama, faith, Hindus, India, irrational number, Kabbalah, Life of Pi, lost at sea, narrative, philosophy, religion, Scott Magee, shipwreck, tiger, transcendental, Tzimtzum, Yann Martel

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