Angel and the Badman (and other Quaker movies)

A while ago, I wrote about Quakers in the media, a quest I went on for a few months while subscribing to GreenCine’s movie service and armed with my library card.  I thought I did pretty well, and it was an interesting sociological study akin to “seeing yourself the way the world sees you.”  No [...]

Quaker expansionism

I’m looking forward to seeing two films tonight at the LGBT Center, which I’ve always wanted to visit. Transparent and Just Call Me Kade will take me on a journey I’ve only experienced a few times via film (such as Southern Comfort). I’m so impressed that some of the folks I know and work with [...]

CB “Library revival”

Library Revival! and Mind the Gap… Last year, a Pew Internet & American Life Project report stated, “There are several major findings…one is this: For help with a variety of common problems, more people turn to the internet than consult experts or family members to provide information and resources. Another key insight is that members [...]

I Am Legend: Christian movies in diguise?

One thing that I didn’t expect from I Am Legend was its Christian underpinnings. Not to go on a spoiler-bender, but I had to write about this since it seems to have escaped the reviewers (though it does appear here, here, and here) Like other in-disguise Christian apocalyptic movies (The Matrix, Constantine, etc.), we have [...]

Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

“The activists call us performers, the performers call us artists, and the artists call us clowns,” said Bill Talen (the Reverend Billy) last night at the SF DocFest showing of What Would Jesus Buy? a documentary produced by Morgan Spurlock (of Super Size Me fame). As a former Calvinist, Talen said it was a stretch [...]