Posts under ‘Film’

I posted earlier about the film Jesus-4-Less my friend Riggs is working on. Here’s the latest update:
“The script was finished, the roles cast, and a date has been set to begin filming,” says Riggs. “We have an all volunteer cast and crew. We received a grant from the City of Tacoma in the form of [...]

From our pal Beth, who reports the following:
I try to get involved in local atheist activities that I find interesting, especially undertakings which I feel are exceptionally broad in scope or are particularly challenging. Recently I was told about a movie being produced in my area, presumably by atheists though I imagine atheist friendly believers [...]

I’ve gotten a couple comments recently that my postings have been a little…bitter. Which isn’t really my intention, I’ve generally been posting news items, and unfortunately a lot of those news items are those that reinforce cynicism and clarify jaded perspective, so I understand where these comments are coming from.
So here’s something a little different [...]

I’m trying to get an atheist film festival going. I talked to Philip Cowan, the Executive Director of the Grand Cinema (very nice man), and he said that his main concern is getting the films into the maximum number of slots available, to make the distributors happy. I understand his predicament. But he says that [...]

This movie, about Hypatia, is an indictment of fundamentalism and of the intolerance of belief. It recently debuted in Cannes.
Set in 4th century Alexandria in Egypt, during the onset of decadence in the Roman Empire, Oscar-winner Rachel Weisz (“The Constant Gardener”) portrays the legendary Hypatia, who devoted herself to science, the search for truth and [...]

Just watched Religulous. I hope Bill Maher doesn’t mind that I transcribed his closing sequence of the movie, because it’s just so good: 
The irony of religion is that because of its power to divert man to destructive courses, the world actually could come to an end. 
The plain fact is that religion must die for mankind [...]

Tacoma Atheists and Seattle Atheists check out the movie “Religulous” by comedian Bill Maher, in which he examines the role of religion in news stories of recent years — from Muslim riots over cartoons to the Ten Commandments in front of courthouses, to a born-again Christian in the White House and Scientology in the birthing [...]