Category Archives: Movies

AMERICAN SNIPER: The Sheepdog

The great films of Clint Eastwood have a fascination with the nature of male friendship. From Unforgiven through Invictus, Gran Torino, Letters from Iwo Jima, Flags of Our Fathers, Mystic River, and even Jersey Boys, the director has explored philia (brotherly love) with a depth and understanding rare in any other director. At times Eastwood’s […]

January 30, 2015 – 4:18 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Current Events, from Paul, Movies, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theology, Uncategorized, World Affairs | Comments Off on AMERICAN SNIPER: The Sheepdog

EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS: The Wrong Protagonist

The differences between the Exodus story according to film director Ridley Scott and the Biblical account of the Exodus is in the chosen protagonist (chief actor; hero). Ridley Scott casts Moses as the protagonist; the story is about him. The Bible recounts the heroic actions of God; the story is about Him. Scott’s Moses is […]

January 6, 2015 – 9:45 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Books, from Paul, History, Movies, The Gospel of the Kingdom | Comments (1)

ST. VINCENT: Bill Murray Explains It All

Bill Murray has played a remarkable collection of curmudgeons and misanthropes – Tripper, Carl Spackler, John Winger, Dr. Peter Venkman, Frank Cross, Bob Wiley, Phil Connors, Frank Milo, Ernie McCracken, Wallace Ritchie, Herman Blume, and Raleigh St. Clair among them. All seem as warmups to Vincent McKenna in Theodore Melfi’s St. Vincent. Vincent McKenna is […]

October 28, 2014 – 11:14 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in from Paul, Movies, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theology | Comments Off on ST. VINCENT: Bill Murray Explains It All

BIRDMAN: Macbeth’s Movie

Birdman’s artists – Alejandro González Iñárritu, Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Antonio Sanchez, Emmanuel Lubezki, Douglas Crise, Stephen Mirrione – will be nominated for all of the major film awards, and they probably deserve to win. But Birdman is deliberately unlike other films: Birdman seeks to have no meaning. That’s right. The artists deliberately conspire to […]

October 24, 2014 – 3:05 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Art, Media, Movies, Theater | Comments (1)

A NOTE FROM SISTER VASSA

  To my great surprise and delight, I received a note from my favorite podcaster, Sister Dr. Vassa Larin, host of the wildly popular video series Coffee with Sister Vassa. Sr. Dr. Vassa is a Russian Orthodox ryassofor nun, author of many scholarly articles and a monograph on Byzantine liturgy and theology, and outspoken public […]

September 28, 2014 – 1:37 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Blog Groups, Books, from Paul, Media, Movies, Quotations, Talks, Television, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theater, Theology | Comments Off on A NOTE FROM SISTER VASSA