Here’s my 30-second take on
Machine Gun Preacher. See also my related interview with Sam Childers.
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The recent announcement that
Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky is moving forward with a $130 million
adaptation of the story of Noah’s ark comes on the heels of last week’s news that Steven Spielberg is being sought to direct a new epic on the life of Moses for Warner Bros. These are just two of a remarkably high number of Hollywood biblical projects in the works at the moment.
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The Adjustment Bureau and
Hereafter are among a remarkable number of recent and upcoming Hollywood films in some way invoking themes of spirituality, religion or belief. 2010 was particularly rife with such Hollywood religiosity, quantitatively if not necessarily qualitatively.
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Are religious themes cropping up in more mainstream movies these days? Stephen Whitty, film critic for New Jersey’s largest newspaper, the
Newark Star Ledger, thinks they may be. In
a recent article Whitty connects the dots on a number of recent Hollywood offerings that touch on spiritual questions or themes of faith, from Clint Eastwood’s
Hereafter, starring Matt Damon, to the Ed Norton/Robert De Niro prison film
Stone, from Woody Allen’s
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger to the Disney sports film
Secretariat.
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An old witticism has it that Golden Age Hollywood was “a Jewish-owned business selling Catholic theology to Protestant America.” If not strictly accurate, the
bon mot contains more than a kernel of truth.
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