Year: 2015

I’m pleased to announce that the consciouscreation.com web site has added my books, Get the Picture?!: Conscious Creation Goes to the Movies and Consciously Created Cinema: The Movie Lover’s Guide to the Law of Attraction, to the list of titles available through its online bookstore! On the bookstore page menu, click on the option “Various Authors/Titles” and then scroll to page 4 of the listings. For more, click here. And, while you’re at it, check out all the resources this wonderful web site (and its Facebook page) have to offer! Photo covers by Paul L. Clark, Inspirtainment ...

Keep up with the latest about my books, Get the Picture?!: Conscious Creation Goes to the Movies and Consciously Created Cinema: The Movie Lover’s Guide to the Law of Attraction, on Facebook, Google+ and Pinterest, as well as on their own web sites. Follow Get the Picture?! on Facebook by clicking here, on Google+ by clicking here and on Pinterest by clicking here. Visit the book’s web site by clicking here. Follow Consciously Created Cinema on Facebook by clicking here, on Google+ by clicking here and on Pinterest by clicking here. Visit the book’s web site by clicking here. And keep up with me on Twitter @Brent_Marchant. Cover designs by Paul L. Clark, Inspirtainment ...

“Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine” (2014 production, 2015 release). Interview Footage: Michele Josue, Judy Shepard, Dennis Shepard, Tim Galles, Walt Boulden, Zeina Barkawi, Cynthia Whisenant, Nikki Pearson, Julie Anderson, Rich Mack, Kate Chill, Romaine Patterson, Jason Marsden, Jim Osborne, Matt Galloway, Dave O’Malley, Rob Debree, Reggie Fluty, Rulon Stacy, Father Roger Schmit. Archive Footage: Matt Shepard, Logan Shepard, Aaron McKinney, Russell Henderson, Ellen DeGeneres, President Bill Clinton, President Barack Obama. Director: Michele Josue. Screenplay: Michele Josue. Movie web site. Television web site. Trailer. It’s easy to forget how those who are the inspiration for very public events are also individuals, flesh and blood people with their own personalities, traits and sensibilities. We often look past those qualities, not realizing how such traits often play an integral part in helping to bring their accomplishments into being. Under such circumstances, the only ones who get to see the private sides of these people are those who know them intimately. But now there’s a new film that attempts to correct that oversight at least for one public figure, a highly personal profile that provides the basis of the heartfelt documentary, “Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine.” In October 1998, the ...

“Irrational Man” (2015). Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Parker Posey, Jamie Blackley, Betsy Aidem, Ethan Phillips, Sophie von Haselberg, Tom Kemp, Robert Petkoff, Kate McGonigle, Susan Pourfar, Paula Plum, Nancy Giles. Director: Woody Allen. Screenplay: Woody Allen. Web site. Trailer. Have you ever heard someone utter something that seems totally inappropriate or ludicrous, only to find out that the statement in question is one the speaker’s most cherished beliefs? Hard to fathom, isn’t it? Yet such instances are commonplace, since beliefs are highly personal, heartfelt sentiments, notions that everyone holds onto zealously (and that are generally unshakable except under the most coercive circumstances). That seemingly strange though routine proposition gets put under the microscope in the latest offering from director Woody Allen, “Irrational Man.” The ivy-clad halls of Newport, Rhode Island’s stoic Braylin College are about to get shaken up (or at least that’s what administrators think). Renowned philosophy professor Abe Lucas (Joaquin Phoenix) has agreed to join the school’s faculty as a visiting instructor for the summer program. His arrival is heralded as a major coup for the university, given his pedigree as one of the field’s most insightful academics. But his standing precedes him in other ways, too; ...

Pour yourself a cup of fun! Tune in to the latest edition of The CoffeeCast podcast, where I’ll speak with host Tom Cheevers about conscious creation and the movies. Join us for an often-insightful, sometimes-irreverent, occasionally explicit conversation about a colorful, entertaining and enlightening topic. Tune in on Stitcher by clicking here or iTunes by clicking here ...

Check out my latest radio show appearance on the Radio Out There podcast, available by clicking here. Join host Barry Eaton and me when we discuss conscious creation and the movies, as well as the recently released new edition of my first book, Get the Picture?!: Conscious Creation Goes to the Movies. Cover design by Paul L. Clark, Inspirtainment ...