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The Hum of Angels: Listening for the Messengers of God Around Us

Scot McKnight

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Would you recognise an angel if you saw one? The majority of earth's inhabitants believe in Angels....

Sam (228 KP) rated American Gods - Season 1 in TV

Sep 9, 2019

Interesting Characters (2 more)

Trippy Scenes

Intense Plot

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One Hell of a Trip!

This is one show that follows like one giant mind fuck. From the tripped out scenes to the intensity that the characters bring to the show I couldn't look away. The whole concept of the show is New Gods vs. Old Gods in America. It's a conversation that started long ago when I was in college that begs to answer one singular question, what do Americans worship. This show personifies the Gods that were brought over from the different cultures immigrants come from. Putting them up between the 'Gods' or the modern era, television, internet, and the mysterious Mr. World who I haven't quite put my finger on yet. However, with such an intense concept it takes a minute for the show to sink in and even when it does it takes a bit of concentration to follow the actually plot. My best advice is to lean back and enjoy the intense, trippy scenes that come with every scene. All you really need to know is the basic plotline anyways! The rest will fall into place eventually!

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Andy K (10821 KP) rated Häxan (1922) in Movies

Oct 6, 2019

Häxan (1922)

1922 | Documentary, Fantasy, Horror

7.6

(5 Ratings)

Movie Rating

Very strange...

This collection of 7 silent film shorts are put together in this film Haxan. It's hard to give a plot description in a silent film collection like these. They mostly have to do with witches and the belief in witchcraft through the middle ages up through the time this movie was made. There were also elements of devils and devil worship, paganism, and the occult.

The film tried to make the point some of these people and practices were strange at the time maybe due to not a great understanding of mental illness or psychological problems of those involved.

The way the movie was divided was interesting at times and boring at other times. I definitely enjoyed the sections where there were actual moving images with dialogue cards or subtitles rather than those with still images only.

Since there was no dialogue per say, it was difficult to follow at some points; however, several of the visuals were striking and even a little scary considering this movie is almost 100 years old.

I still rather enjoyed it.

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The Last Harvest

Kim Liggett

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“I plead the blood.” Those were the last words seventeen-year-old golden boy quarterback Clay...

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens

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Silver footed, fair haired Thetis, Ares the God of War, Nike the Goddess of Victory, The Furies and...

Awix (3310 KP) rated The Wicker Man (1973) in Movies

Feb 18, 2018 (Updated Feb 18, 2018)

The Wicker Man (1973)

1973 | Horror, Mystery

7.5

(29 Ratings)

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British folk-horror film is part of the mini-boom in 'British civil servant travels by seaplane to sun-obsessed Christopher Lee's remote island in search of missing girl, discovers Britt Ekland waiting for him' movies that happened in 1973-4. Devout Christian copper (Woodward) visits Summerisle (off the Scottish coast) after receiving a tip-off about a vanishing schoolgirl, is appalled by what he sees as the immorality of the islanders. The lord of the place (Lee) assures him that there's nothing to be worried about, they just have different ethical standards (they're all Pagans), but Woodward is not convinced. Is something nasty lined up for May Day?

Books have been written about the tortuous distribution endured by The Wicker Man and its producers; rumours persist that the original much longer version is buried under a motorway somewhere in England. But all the available cuts are excellent, if not superb: the film is not particularly scary per se, more a queasy examination of how society, morality and religion intersect with one another; manages to make moral relativism seem more disturbing than devil-worship, somehow. Has one of the greatest non-endings in cinema history. Great performances, banging tunes, thoughtful and playful script; a film for all seasons, but goes especially well with a barbecue.