Film Friday

In this classic film there is a moment when Eric Liddell tells his sister that God made him fast and when he runs he feels God’s pleasure. The quote is …

The swashbuckling film William Tell begins with the legendary moment when William is attempting to shoot an apple of his son’s head. Then it jumps back in time and we …

This film is about the terror and tragedy at the Munich Olympics in 1972, when eleven Israeli hostages and were held captive and then murdered in the Olympic village. We …

In the film Here, we watch a single spot through the ages, from the dinosaurs up to the house built on the land in the present day. Much of the …

There is a scene in this biopic about Bob Dylan’s early days, when Bob plays the Newport festival and the crowd boo him. He had been adored by the new …

In the biographical film Better Man, the singer Robbie Willams is played by a CGI monkey, which may sound strange at first, but one of the themes of the movie …

In the latest instalment of the continuing saga of Wallis and Gromit, Wallis invents a helpful robot which he calls Norbot. And in a delightful scene he enthusiastically tells Gromit …

The film Maria tells the story of the last week of the life of opera singer Maria Callas. After years of fame and adulation Maria is now alone with her …

When the Pope dies unexpectedly all the Cardinals gather in the Vatican to vote for a new leader. However, there is division between those of a more conservative persuasion and …

The film The Six Triple Eight tells the powerful and true story of the 6888th Battalion of the Women’s Army Corp. These 855 women of colour were assigned the overwhelming yet vital …

In this third instalment Paddington and the Brown family head off to Peru to search for great aunt Lucy who has been lost somewhere in the jungle. However, in doing …

John McClane flies home to LA from New York to see his wife Holly who is attending an office Christmas party. John is a cop from New York and he …

The film The Nativity Story tells, as you might expect, the story of the first nativity. We see Mary and Joseph making the dangerous journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem, for …

In the film Blitz Rita sends her son George away from their home in London, to escape the bombing, but George is not happy about that. So much so that …

This movie tells the tale of a successful screenwriter called Jack, who is offered the chance to write a hit film with the help of AI – artificial intelligence. Cautiously …

In the second Joker film Folie à Deux, Arthur Fleck, aka Joker, has crowds of followers, until he decides to defend himself in court and in so doing he reveals …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …