In case you aren’t friends with me on Facebook, you probably didn’t hear that earlier this month I went out to Boulder CO to be on film with Stephen Simon and Lisa Garr – we were filming the movie review discussion for the August 2010 volume of Spiritual Cinema Circle. I had a ton [...]

  Many many months ago, my friend Christopher Westra sent out his usual weekly update letter to his friends and family and mentioned that they had watched the miniseries “Dinotopia” and that it was surprisingly spiritual in nature. I took note of that, but it wasn’t until recently (about a month ago) that I finally [...]

I’m really looking forward to getting my March 2010 Spiritual cinema Circle DVD soon, and I thought I’d share with you previews of what’s coming up this month. If it sounds good to you, then you can get all of these movies for free (just pay shipping) and then we can discuss them together. Also, [...]

   Cold Souls was recommended by Stephen Simon of Spiritual Cinema Circle, and I don’t know how much I can share about it without revealing too much of both the plot and the essence. The main character of Cold Souls is Paul Giamatti, who is actually playing himself – and he has a mid-life crisis [...]

  A dear friend sent this movie to me months ago, and I only finally took the 20 minutes to watch it and I am SO glad I did. “Validation” is a short film about what happens to people when somebody starts believing in them, even when they don’t believe in themselves. I’m reminded of [...]

“If we can be traumatized in 30 seconds, why can’t we be healed in say… a week… a day… or even an hour?”   That question comes from a documentary called “The Tapping Solution” (created by the producers of the “Tapping World Summit“) that I watched recently. I find that question interesting and powerful because [...]

This blog post is sponsored by Spiritual Cinema Circle Imagine the following: You are a single, thirty-something professional…and you discover you have a very serious, life-threatening case of leukemia even though you are symptom-free. The next day you meet the love of your life at a nightclub and begin a relationship, knowing you haven’t long [...]

Traditionally, movies make it to your local theater by way of studios that see enough financial potential to make money on them. Smaller filmmakers-or just filmmakers with non-mainstream films-usually don’t get their movies shown in a theater outside of a film festival. Spiritual Cinema Circle travels to film festivals all over the world and encourage [...]

  A few years back, I went through a phase where I watched a lot of movies all the time. There was something delightful about immersing myself in a new world for a little while, whether it was to let go of the stresses of the day, or to feel a surge of adrenaline from [...]