I highly recommend the 2007 film “Lions for Lambs”. While the film can be watched from the perspective of fighting terrorism; it can also be watched from a spiritual perspective. The title is from a remark by a German fighting the British during World War I. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions_for_Lambs One such composition included the observation, ‘Nowhere [...]
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An amazing film with some cool special ops about bringing greed and lies to the light of day. Watch the trailer on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KRD8e20fBo The shocking part is that they relabel the dolphin meat as whale meat so they can sell it. And they even try to feed it to school children… even though dolphin is [...]
In the new movie “Avatar,” James Cameron has a language created for the native people, the Na’vi (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na’vi_language). One of the most interesting lines from the movie in Na’vi was “Oel ngati kameie” loosely translated ”I See you.” But also explained that it means more than seeing you on a physical level, seeing “all” [...]
I came across an interesting review of the movie Avatar at http://catholicmediareview.blogspot.com/2009/12/movie-review-avatar-2009.html I want to put this as plainly as I can. This film is so uniquely awful that it should be legal for me to enslave and neuter any movie critic who gives it a positive review… I think Avatar is significant movie in [...]
Philip Pullman wrote a trilogy of books collectively called “His Dark Materials” that includes the individual books “The Golden Compass”, “The Subtle Knife” and “The Amber Spyglass”. A new motion picture is about to be released based on the first novel starring Nicole Kidman. This movie has started a large controversy. The author has been [...]
Is there a real equivalent to Hogwarts in the World? I don’t think so, yet. But I have thought about parallels between the Harry Potter world and the world of spirituality. I will try to explain a few of the similarities I see. An interesting question to ponder is how the author and self proclaimed [...]
Occasionally there are movies that contain so much more than people realize. A few movies contain great spiritual lessons and people who see the movie do not even realize they are being taught a lesson. I recently saw a great spiritual movie masquerading as a Sci-Fi family movie, “The Last Mimzy”. I would put “The [...]