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Category: Movies

Oppenheimer and the importance of owls
Movies

Oppenheimer and the importance of owls

Posted on 13 August 202313 August 2023 by Sande Ramage

Right from the start I was totally engrossed in Oppenheimer and didn’t falter across the whole three hours. Perhaps because it was obvious early on that the protagonists considered themselves to be the ‘good guys’ in the world. And that…

Marianne & Leonard: reflecting our vulnerable ignorance
Movies

Marianne & Leonard: reflecting our vulnerable ignorance

Posted on 14 October 201914 October 2019 by Sande Ramage

The movie Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love drew me in, twice. An engrossing but discomforting movie that highlights Cohen’s hurtful behaviour towards his muse and lover, Marianne Ihlen and her apparent willingness to be walked over like a beautiful…

Rocketman: reinventing redemption
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Rocketman: reinventing redemption

Posted on 14 July 201914 July 2019 by Sande Ramage

Elton John’s moment of redemption arrives in Rocketman when he wraps his younger, abandoned and fragile self in a loving embrace. Integration of a fragmented human is underway. Or put another way, the Self, the God within us is on…

Creativity: wild, mysterious & perhaps divine
Creative Arts

Creativity: wild, mysterious & perhaps divine

Posted on 3 June 20194 June 2019 by Sande Ramage

I fell for Frida Kahlo in an instant. It was the tango that did it as Salma Hayek and Ashley Judd strutted, stamped and slid across the floor and each others bodies in two minutes of intense passion. Knowing this…

Waru the movie: questioning patriarchy?
Compassion

Waru the movie: questioning patriarchy?

Posted on 29 December 201722 January 2018 by Sande Ramage

Waru is powerful and uncomfortable. Eight stories all linked by the death of a boy. On the surface it’s about child abuse, confirmed by the co-producer Kerry Warkia who said the project was, ‘born out of heartache, love and passion to…

Reflection on Spirituality Demystified: Understanding Spirituality in Rational Terms
Books

Reflection on Spirituality Demystified: Understanding Spirituality in Rational Terms

Posted on 6 December 201530 January 2018 by Sande Ramage

I didn’t expect to find myself humming the old hymn Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise at the launch of Spirituality Demystified: Understanding Spirituality in Rational Terms. But, as I listened to Rohana Ulluwishewa talk about our inner and outer realities…

Anna the void and her imprint
God

Anna the void and her imprint

Posted on 9 August 20154 February 2018 by Sande Ramage

Crying into my muesli was familiar territory in the days when hormones were more rampant, usually activated by the loss of some love or a response to the all-encompassing despair that used to dog my footsteps. The loves are gone…

Easter contradictions with Ms Monroe
Creative Arts

Easter contradictions with Ms Monroe

Posted on 23 March 20126 February 2018 by Sande Ramage

Michelle Williams is tantalizing in the movie, My Week with Marilyn. She ensures Ms Monroe is present, a disarming combination of innocent child and sensual siren. It’s not the sleek exterior that seduces; it’s the contradictions that open us up.…

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