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And When Did You Last See Your Father?

18/08/08 | Warren Bird
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.

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The Chaser’s War on Everything

30/07/07 | Joseph Smith
I’m sorry to say it, but I think The Chaser team are losing their edge. Let me explain by twice quoting…

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La Vie en Rose

23/07/07 | Natasha Percy
Olivier Dahan’s account of the turbulent world of Edith Piaf, the petite Parisienne with the distinctively powerful…

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

16/07/07 | Mark Hadley
OK, for the sake of the fans, let’s get straight down to it. Is this a good Harry Potter film? Yes. Better than…

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Amazing Grace

09/07/07 | Joseph Smith
In Amazing Grace William Wilberforce’s life shows how grace and works cannot be separated.

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Black Book

02/07/07 | Mark Hadley
Black Book is named after a small diary that purports to contain the names of Nazi collaborators and their…

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Quizmania

28/06/07 | Mark Hadley
My wife and I felt a fair degree of sympathy for the late-night host we were watching. She was hopping up and down…

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Transformers

25/06/07 | Mark Hadley
I was sitting at the exclusive red carpet preview of Transformers and I was in anything but a good mood.…

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The Dead Girl

18/06/07 | Joseph Smith
Anytime a filmmaker places the conclusion of the film’s plot at the start, they are going to have to work hard…

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Hostel II

11/06/07 | Joseph Smith
What price can one put on the life of a human? Somewhere upwards of US$30,000 but lower than $100,000 according…

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Bridge to Terabithia

04/06/07 | Natasha Percy
Based on the classic novel by Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia tells the story of Jesse and Leslie,…

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Shrek the Third

28/05/07 | Joseph Smith
The Shrek films are widely regarded as the funniest animation trilogy around, but what are we really laughing…

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Primeval

28/05/07 | Mark Hadley
Part Jurassic Park, part X-files, Primeval presents us with a team of British scientists confronted…

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God on my side

18/05/07 | Greg Clarke
Television interviewer Andrew Denton's documentary on Christian fundamentalist America has made the transition…

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Deliver Us From Evil

17/05/07 | Joseph Smith
Academy Award-nominated documentary Deliver Us From Evil is a disturbing and tragic account of the abuse…

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28 Weeks Later

11/05/07 | Joseph Smith
The sequel to Danny Boyle’s 2002 film 28 Days Later poses the same questions as its predecessor about…

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Spiderman 3

08/05/07 | Mark Hadley
At the core of this new installment in arguably the most successful super-hero franchise of all time is a quest…

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Woe news is good news

30/04/07 | Mark Hadley
Television news is dumbing the world down, but the bigger problem is that we hardly care. It suits us to be amused…

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The Curse of the Golden Flower

26/04/07 | Mark Hadley
The Curse of the Golden Flower challenges movie preconceptions, not just because it draws heavily on Asian…

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