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Tag: Films About Religion

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1954) Movie Review & Film summary,Cast

Luis Buñuel’s repute as one of cinema’s mightiest talents rested for a long time on his outrageous early works,...

The Lost Continent (1968) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Outlandish, lightning-paced, and genuinely hallucinogenic in its flow of bizarre behaviour, feverish plot development, and gaudy Eastmancolor-infused visuals, The...

The Mission (1986) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Writer Robert Bolt’s career interest in lively martyrs, gone-native doomed romantics, and the malfeasance of Empire found a subject...

The Crusades (1935) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

When generations of pedants have complained about historical inaccuracy in the movies, Cecil B. DeMille’s The Crusades could have...

A Serious Man (2009) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

I start watching Coen Brothers movies more with a sense of duty than in anticipation these days, but I’ll...

Queen Margot (La reine Margot, 1994) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Patrice Chereau’s elaborate, expensive take on the costume epic, an extension of the grimier, would-be honest period films of...

The Last Valley (1970) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

In many ways a far more accurate cross-cultural transcription of The Seven Samurai than The Magnificent Seven, James Clavell’s...

Goya’s Ghosts (2006) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Not quite as bad as some critics said, and yet also a long way from great, Milos Forman turns...

Freedom and Fate in George Lucas’s THX 1138 and Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report

An edited version of an academic essay I wrote in 2009, looking at common generic concerns. George Lucas and...