This is an index to my posts on movies and books. Last updated 8/2011.
Foreign Films
- The Song of Sparrows (2008). Iranian A man working on an ostrich farm makes several bad choices and almost unravels his life.
- Sleep Dealer (2008) : Spanish: Scifi
- Monsieur Ibrahim (2003) French, 2003. Turkish sufi befriends a young man.
- 5 Argentina Films: Spanish: On the Desaparecidoes (the Disappeared) in the Dirty War.
- The Man without a Past: (2002) Finnish.
- Children of Heaven (1997) Iranian. Touching film about a brother and sister.
English Films
- Toy Story 3 (2001): English children anime
- Moon (2009) : English. SciFi
- Adam (2009) English Asperger syndrome (an Autism variant)
- Cold Souls (2009) English: A company extracts souls and rents them.
- Gran Torino (2008) English, Clint Eastwood. Touching.
- 3:10 to Yuma (2007) English. Western with a savior figure.
- In the Valley of Elah (2007) English, How to kill a soul.
- Lady in the Water (2006) English. M. Night Shyamalan
Book Reviews
- Why we Believe in god(s) : (2011) by J. Anderson Thomson
- Theological Roots of Pentecostalism : (1991) by Donald Dayton
- Tokens of Trust : (2007) An Introduction to Christian Belief by Rowan Williams (Episcopal archbishop)
- The Burial of Jesus : (2008) by James McGrath
- The End of Biblical Studies : (2007) by Hector Avalos (Atheist incompletereligion professor, Iowas State University)
