Surprisingly Spiritual Films #2: Bad Lieutenant and Last Shot Redemption

Surprisingly Spiritual Films:

Bad Lieutenant and Last-Shot Redemption

By Simon Augustine, Dr. Mal Sardonicus III and research by Lights! Editorial Staff
Abel Ferrara started his career as one of the directors you would leasts expect to make a serious-minded, even devout, Christian film. Ferrara, like fellow filmmaker Martin Scorsese, built his reputation with an oeuvre of gritty New [...]

Suprisingly Spiritual Films #1: “Passing Through” in Elite Squad

Surprisingly Spiritual Films: An Ongoing Series
#1 : Passing Through in Elite Squad

By Simon Augustine
“When you pass through, no one can pin you down, no one can call you back.”
- Yung-An
In Rio de Janiero, the ghettos are ruled by two things: stunning poverty, and drug lords who offer potential escape from a pervasive life of want. [...]