While concurrently watching the Olympics and Paralympics on television which were being staged in Beijing I watched a documentary called Up the Yangtze which highlights the unfolding story of the building of the world's largest hydroelectric scheme on the Yangtze River, and the resulting displacement of millions of people.

Children and adults alike appreciate the drama innate in the Exodus story and this is brought out in this new animated film The Ten Commandments.

Is Disney’s latest feature a modern day Christian parable?

Gilmour's idea in creating this film was to debunk many extreme ideas some of the West has about the nature of Islamic society.

Salam Cafe is a very interesting TV show, providing great insights into Aussie-Muslim culture.

The big red guy is back with his ‘right hand of doom’ and he is in fine form.

Father-son relationships are an important topic within Christian circles, never more so than today. Therefore, I went to see And When Did You Last See Your Father? with a keen interest in how a secular film would deal with the subject.

If Pineapple Express was a train I’d say “get off now!” But it’s not. It’s a movie. So you translate the metaphor.

The power of advertising is its ability to provide convincing arguments for products we may not think we need – a skill Christians could do well to learn.

This might a Batman sequel but the Joker steals the show.

The U2 Vertigo tour that went worldwide in 2005 and graced Australian shores in November 2006 is the second biggest selling concert tour of all time.

Fitted with an elegant mane of hair, a moustache which curls at the ends, and an Indian accent, Mike Myers plays Guru Pitka; an Indian expert who can solve everyone’s relationship problems. Or at least that’s what his reputation would suggest.

Skin-tight t-shirts, hip-swivelling moves, thumping base-beats, five-part harmonies, the prayer of St Francis of Assisi. Spot the odd man out.

It is unlikely that any more than a handful of children growing up in Australia have managed to avoid an episode of Play School.