Category Archives: Movies

Hamlet in Jack Bauer-land

We returned to the Music Box Theater to see an encore of Nicholas Hynter’s 2010 Hamlet at the National Theatre. First of all, Rory Kinnear may be the finest Hamlet I have ever seen. His clear love of the language and linguistic devices arises from his clear conception of the character and the situation. “I […]

November 21, 2013 – 6:29 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Mini-Review, Movies, Theater | Comments Off on Hamlet in Jack Bauer-land

The Audience: A Mini-Review

A great disappointment: an unstructured series of humorous political sketches pretending to be a play. Enough said.

July 11, 2013 – 6:46 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Mini-Review, Movies, Theater | Comments Off on The Audience: A Mini-Review

OSTROV (The Island): Pavel Lungin’s Masterpiece

Imagine a Samuel Beckett world inhabited by Russian Orthodox monks. When director Pavel Lungin did the result was a beautiful, mysterious, and profound film.   Read The Rad Trad’s review.

July 10, 2013 – 7:36 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Movies, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theology | Comments Off on OSTROV (The Island): Pavel Lungin’s Masterpiece

Salmon Fishing in Yemen and The Little Engine that Could

In the film, Salmon Fishing in Yemen (2011) Sheik Muhammed of Yemen’s unlikely dream – salmon fishing in Yemen- comes true due to the efforts of Dr. Alfred “Fred” Jones, a fisheries expert, and the sheik’s British agent, Harriet Chetwode-Talbot. The film has been praised as a film about “faith.” But what kind of faith? […]

November 14, 2012 – 10:38 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Movies, The Gospel of the Kingdom | Comments Off on Salmon Fishing in Yemen and The Little Engine that Could

EAST OF EDEN (1955): Life without God

 “I can’t believe your fickleness – how easily you have turned traitor to him who called you by the grace of Christ by embracing a variant message!  It is not a minor variation, you know; it is completely other, an alien message, a no-message, a lie about God.” St Paul, Letter to the Galatians[i] Even […]

September 25, 2012 – 3:50 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Books, from Paul, Men and Women, Movies, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theology | Comments Off on EAST OF EDEN (1955): Life without God