THE INTERVIEW: JOANNE ROGERS SPEAKS ON HER HUSBAND FRED ROGER’S COMMITMENT TO PRAYER, CHURCH AND CHILDREN
ADELLE M BANKS speaks with Joanne Rogers, widow of iconic US children’s TV identity, Fred Rogers, about her husband’s faith and the new film to be released this month starring Tom Hanks as her husband and Maryann Plunkett as herself…
From black megachurch to big screen: Another team of brothers directs new movie
Largo, Maryland, US RNS Jimmy Jenkins and his brother, Joshua, stood in front of the crowd at a local AMC movie theater and admitted to being overwhelmed. After showing their new movie, Sinners Wanted, for free the previous weekend at the black megachurch where their father preaches, on Friday, 22nd March, they were in a nearby […]
FILM: ‘BEST OF ENEMIES’ – REAL FAITH AND RACIAL RECONCILIATION ON THE BIG SCREEN
MARK I PINSKY, in an article first published on Religion News Service, reports on a new film about how an unlikely pair, through friendship and a shared Christian faith, demonstrated the possibility of reconciliation…
Film: ‘Revival!’ brings mostly Black cast to movie depiction of Gospel of John
ADELLE M BANKS, writing for Religion News Service, reports on the release of a new film, ‘Revival!’, which retells the Gospel of John with a mostly black cast…
THE INTERVIEW: DARREN TURNER, THE REAL LIFE CHAPLAIN BEHIND ‘INDIVISIBLE’ MOVIE
New movie, ‘Indivisible’, tells the story of the struggles US Army Chaplain Darren Turner and his wife, Heather, faced after he was deployed to Iraq. ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, speaks to Turner about the stresses on military families, the roles of chaplains and coping with faith and doubt…
High art meets high-tech in Vatican 3D film about Raphael
RNS Italian actor Flavio Parenti, as Raphael, in a scene from the Sistine Chapel in the 3D film ‘Raphael – Prince of the Arts’. PICTURE: Sky and Nexo Digital He was a child prodigy who became one of the most famous artists in the world, and more than six million tourists come to see his […]
New movie about Pearl Harbour raider who turned to God
Ecumenical News International Mitsuo Fuchida led the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941, an event that catapulted the United States into the Second World War. After the war, Fuchida turned to Christianity and became an evangelist. Fuchida’s maternal grandmother was a nationalist from a samurai family who resisted attempts by Emperor Meiji to […]