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Gareth Higgins

Gareth Higgins is a writer and broadcaster from Belfast, Northern Ireland, who has worked as an academic and activist. He is the author of How Movies Helped Save My Soul: Finding Spiritual Fingerprints in Culturally Significant Films. He blogs at www.godisnotelsewhere.wordpress.com and co-presents “The Film Talk” podcast with Jett Loe at www.thefilmtalk.com. He is also a Sojourners contributing editor and executive director of the Wild Goose Festival. Originally from Northern Ireland, he lives in Carrboro, North Carolina.

Blog Posts by Gareth Higgins

Posted by Gareth Higgins 25 weeks 5 days ago
Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a surprising addition to the typical summer blockbuster canon -- for one thing, it manages to entertain and challenge, without resorting to gratuitous violence to...
Posted by Gareth Higgins 27 weeks 2 days ago
It's been a fabulous few weeks for movies -- at theaters and at home. There are images in the great Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris, recently released on Blu-ray and DVD, that are so...
Posted by Gareth Higgins 34 weeks 16 hours ago
Ah the joy of watching movies in the summer! Of course, there are a number of summer blockbusters coming out that will woo crowds to the theaters, but with the sky-high prices of theater tickets...
Posted by Gareth Higgins 1 year 35 weeks ago

Articles by Gareth Higgins

A perfect time to catch up on the 10 best Blu-ray releases of the past year.

Hugo, Take Shelter, and The Mill and the Cross have little in common on the surface other than their quality; look deeper and you may find love-filled, theologically profound, hopeful invitations to live better.

Roland Emmerich is known for making the kind of disaster movies that fans of quality filmmaking love to hate.

Clooney's new movie, The Ides of March, serves as a thoughtful and entertaining mirror for next year's presidential election.

The round-up on late-summer cinema, including: Solaris, The Tree of Life, and Super 8.