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Mary Magdalene, the Movie
Mary Magdalene has always seemed special. It’s difficult to fit together the different resurrection appearances of Jesus into a coherent narrative, but one thing is clear in the Easter story as I received it: Mary Magdalene is the first person … Continue reading
Posted in film, Review, Spirituality
Tagged Garth Davis, Gospel of Mary, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Mary Madgalene, Rooney Mara
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Creatures the World Forgot – and Maybe for a Reason?
I’m conscious this blog tends to wander off a bit from its declared focus on the exotic and the prehistoric. So let’s get back to basics – and a look at another prehistoric movie classic. I never saw this film … Continue reading
Valerian and Laureline and the Dream of Paradise
I was wrong to think that the guy and the girl always had equal billing in the title of the original comic series: Valérian et Laureline was for most of its history Valérian, agent spatio-temporel. But I still reckon the … Continue reading
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
Researching Deep Time was an excuse to rewatch the dinosaur films that had captivated me as boy. Through this painstaking scholarly process I discovered that in my memory two of these films had merged into one. That’s not entirely surprising … Continue reading
Posted in film, Prehistory, Uncategorized
Tagged cavemen, Deep Time, dinosaur, film, One Million Years BC, prehistoric, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
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The Rogue One Terrorists
I used to think of Star Wars as a fairy tale in space. In filling a tempting gap in the storyline, Rogue One offers less in the way of mythological resonance and more of gritty realism. It’s telling that some key … Continue reading
Posted in film, Politics, science fiction, Uncategorized
Tagged empire, Rogue One, space opera, Star Wars, terrorists
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Neanderthal Man and Cro-Magnon Woman
Jacques Malaterre’s Ao, le dernier Néandertal is a 2010 film about the fateful encounter between Neanderthals and modern humans. It’s also, as usual in this genre, a love story – with the usual pattern of gender and race: the man is a … Continue reading
Battlestar Galactica and Ecology
For several gruelling months at work, it was an episode of Battlestar Galactica each evening that kept me going – till I’d worked through all five box sets. A military SF story about shooting up evil robots may not seem … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, film, science fiction, Uncategorized
Tagged Battlestar Galactica, Cylon, Ecology, military SF, science fiction
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