Few films are able to convey a sense of place, of culture, of a time before our own. It’s equally hard to tell a story with interweaving plot lines involving complex characters.“Simon Magus ...

“Simon Magus” is a dark and dreamlike fable, “a tale” as its subtitle puts it, “from a vanished world.” Poetic and ambiguous, it manages to be magical in both the beautiful and ...

The Orange County Jewish Film Festival opens Sunday at UC Irvine. The event, co-sponsored by UCI and University Synagogue of Irvine, consists of five screenings through May 9. The schedule ...

Simon Magus tries to buy the Holy Spirit John W. Martens August 28, 2015 This is the twenty-fourth entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles.

Following a preliminary chapter reflecting on the ancient magician Simon Magus and the doctrines of Gnosticism, which posits that this world was created by an evil demiurge, Simon turns to Jesus ...

Simon frequently opens his chapters with some striking or macabre anecdote. For instance, he recounts the likely political ...

Visit Bolton Abbey and enjoy "breathtaking" views on a walk that takes you to a waterfall, the Valley of Desolation.

Simon Magus. By JASON SOLOMONS, MAIL ON SUNDAY. What a pleasant change to welcome a bright, inventive and intelligent British film. It isn't about gangsters, there are no kitchen sinks and Jane ...

Set in Poland in the late 19th Century, "Shine" actor Noah Taylor plays Simon Magus, a possessed, scarecrow-like outcast, whom most of the locals scorn and treat as the village idiot.

After finding out by chance that his ex-girlfriend Mina’s Mum died, Simon decides to steal her body in order to provoke cathartic processes in Mina and do something for her. Mina hadn’t been in ...