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.
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…
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…
Amazing Grace
09/07/07 | Joseph Smith
In Amazing Grace William Wilberforce’s life shows how grace and works cannot be separated.
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Primeval
28/05/07 | Mark Hadley
Part Jurassic Park, part X-files, Primeval presents us with a team of British scientists confronted…
God on my side
18/05/07 | Greg Clarke
Television interviewer Andrew Denton's documentary on Christian fundamentalist America has made the transition…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…