Film Friday

Film Friday

A weekly Movie Moment that brings the Bible to life.

The Outrun

The film The Outrun tells the story of Rona, a young woman from Orkney who has become an alcoholic. Her mother is a Christian, and she prays for her daughter. …

The Count of Monte Cristo

When Edmond Dantès is wrongly imprisoned for a crime he did not commit he meets a man, a count, who helps him to escape. And on escaping Edmond vows revenge …

Megalopolis – Made for another world

This is a sprawling epic from The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola. It’s set in a city called New Rome (a mixture of modern New York and ancient Rome), where …

Lee

The movie Lee tells the true story of Lee Miller, who was first off a model before she went on to become a photographer working for Vogue magazine during the …

Beatlejuice Beatlejuice

Years ago, back in the 1980s, the Deetz family  moved into a spooky old house and  – surprise surprise – found it haunted, with as they say in filmland – …

It Ends With Us

When Lily Bloom spots a young homeless man, called Atlas, in a derelict building across her street she packs up some food and a sleeping bag and leaves it outside …

Fury – ‘Who will go?’

This gritty and brutal World War Two movie tells of a tank crew, fighting their way across Germany in 1945. In it there’s a scene where one of the crew, …

Thelma – Action & Appreciation

This funny action movie sees 93-year-old Thelma (played by 94-year-old June Squibb) go chasing after justice when she is scammed out of $10,000. She and her old friend Ben board …

Fly Me to the Moon – The Gaps Inside

NASA is preparing to send its first astronauts to walk on the moon, and so they bring in advertising guru Kelly Jones, to sell the idea to the public. They …

Freud’s Last Session

This movie is based on an imagined encounter between Sigmund Freud and CS Lewis. Apparently Freud did meet up with a young oxford professor towards the end of his life, …

Horizon – Land and Freedom

This epic retelling of the American West starts with a man, a boy and some measuring sticks. Horizon is the name of a brand new town which promises hope and …

Treasure

The film Treasure is about an American journalist, Ruth, and her father Edek who comes from Poland. Together they return to his homeland to visit places of his youth and …

Father Stu – Crises and Encounter

The film Father Stu is about an amateur boxer Stuart Long, who is a tough talking, hard drinking guy who falls in love with a young woman Carmen, and then …

Before Dawn – Each Life Recognised

This film tells the fictional tale of young Australian Jim Collins, who goes from the peace and the beauty of the outback of Western Australia to the grim battlefields of …

Paddington in Peru & Muddling Through

The third Paddington film is due out in November this year, but you can watch the new trailer for it on YouTube and in it we find Paddington in a …

Heat – Power and humility

Heat is a cops and robbers movie, but its most famous for the meeting in a diner of cop Vincent and robber Neil. And this is not so much famous …

Marvellous: The best signing

This film tells the wonderful and inspiring true story of Neil Baldwin, who, in spite of being diagnosed with learning difficulties at a young age, dedicated himself to becoming a …

The Fall Guy – Thumbs Up?

Colt Seavers gets blown up, smashed through a windscreen, and hurled off a building. But that’s all in a day’s work for him, he’s a stunt man, and one of …