Posts Tagged ‘belief’

Iris (2001)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Winslet, Kate | Bonneville, Hugh | Dench, Judi | Broadbent, Jim | Bron, Eleanor | Morant, Angela | Wilton, Penelope | Hayes, Siobhan | Aubrey, Juliet | Bakewell, Joan | Carroll, Nancy | Marshall, Kris | Mannion, Tom | Hutchinson, Derek | West, Samuel
Directors: Eyre, Richard
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A moving and tender depiction of the novelist Iris Murdoch’s descent into Alzheimer’s Disease, covering the period from just before her marriage to intellectual John Bayley until her death. The film is based on the two books by John Bayley (Iris, Iris & The Friends).

Religulous (2008)

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Genres: Documentary
Countries: USA
Actors: Burg, Steve | De Jesus Miranda, Jose Luis | Maher, Bill | Newberg, Andrew
Directors: Charles, Larry
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Bill Maher’s take on the current state of world religion.
He interviews some of religion’s oddest adherents. Muslims, Jews and Christians of many kinds pass before his jaundiced eye. Maher goes to a Creationist Museum in Kentucky, which shows that dinosaurs and people lived at the same time 5000 years ago. He talks to truckers at a Truckers’ Chapel. (Sign outside: “Jesus love you.”) He goes to a theme park called Holy Land in Florida. He speaks to a rabbi in league with Holocaust deniers. He talks to a Muslim musician who preaches hatred of Jews. Maher finds the unlikeliest of believers and, in a certain Vatican priest, he even finds an unlikely skeptic. Written by J. Spurlin

Matrix, The (1999)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Reeves, Keanu | Fishburne, Laurence | Moss, Carrie-Anne | Weaving, Hugo | Foster, Gloria | Pantoliano, Joe | Chong, Marcus | Arahanga, Julian | Doran, Matt | McClory, Belinda | Parker, Anthony Ray | Goddard, Paul | Taylor, Robert | Aston, David | Gray, Marc
Directors: Wachowski, Larry | Wachowski, Andy
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In the near future, a computer hacker named Neo (Keanu Reeves) discovers that all life on Earth may be nothing more than an elaborate facade created by a malevolent cyber-intelligence, for the purpose of placating us while our life essence is “farmed” to fuel the Matrix’s campaign of domination in the “real” world. He joins like-minded Rebel warriors Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and Trinity (Carrie Ann Moss) in their struggle to overthrow the Matrix.