by Stephen Simon | Movie Review
From time to time, I like to highlight certain unheralded films that are available on tape or DVD, particularly when I am made aware of certain prevalent energies around me. Recently, I have been struck by how many people have related to me that they feel that...
by Stephen Simon | Movie Review
ILLUSION is one of the most entertaining, moving, fascinating, and life-affirming spiritual films in many years. I hope and trust that the film will become an instant classic that will be loved for as long as films have a life somewhere in people’s hearts. In...
by Stephen Simon | Movie Review
My criteria for inclusion in this special yearly double column is that the films must fit into the definition of Spiritual Cinema that we use for choosing films to distribute through the Spiritual Cinema Circle: films that ask who we are and why we are here—and...
by Stephen Simon | Movie Review
(Stephen is currently directing and producing the film version of Conversations with God. www.cwgthemovie.com . His column is being written by Lisa Schneiderman, publicist for the film, as a diary of the progress of the film. Stephen’s regular column will resume...
by Stephen Simon | Movie Review
Opening in theaters everywhere in November and December, The Overture is a thrilling and totally engrossing film about both an artist’s passion for his music and also his unrelenting commitment to protect the human need to express that passion. Think of a Thai...
by Stephen Simon | Movie Review
From time to time, I like to recommend a classic film to the readers of this column and, as I have been seeing promotions for the new fall television season, a great movie from the 1970’s came to mind. Being There Based on a novel by Jerzy Kosinski, Being There...
by Stephen Simon | Movie Review
Some of the strangest things happened the other day when I went to see a new film called March Of The Penguins. Was I dreaming, was it real, or had Rod Serling been resurrected just for me that day to take me back into The Twilight Zone? First of all, I noted...
by Stephen Simon | Movie Review
From the heights to the depths in Summer, 2005. ‘Twas the best of times: When I talk about the defining characteristics of Spiritual Cinema, the keystone is always the quality of helping us feel better about being human. It’s such a simple...
by Stephen Simon | Movie Review
The sixth and final STAR WARS film marks the end of a 30-year odyssey that has truly been a watershed cultural phenomenon throughout the world. This final film in the series takes us full circle and reveals how Annakin Skywalker actually transformed into Darth Vader...
by Stephen Simon | Movie Review
The Upside Of Anger jumps off the screen into our hearts as a powerful whirlwind of emotions with fascinating, provocative questions about family and the elusive emotion of anger with which most of us seem to flirt on a daily basis. (If you commute to work in a big...
by Stephen Simon | Movie Review
Many years ago, a noted observer referred to television programming as a “vast wasteland”, a description that most of us would, I believe, also apply to the January through May distribution pattern of theatrical movies. Every year, the pickings get...
by Stephen Simon | Movie Review
Before we discuss IMAGINARY HEROES, I want to briefly, humbly, and profusely express my gratitude to some people who have become real heroes to me: the 140,000 of you who came out the weekend of January 29-30 to support INDIGO. The film played in all 50 states and 41...
