Film Friday

Film Friday

A weekly Movie Moment that brings the Bible to life.

Film Friday Classic: North by Northwest

In the days before James Bond this action-thrills-and-spills epic exploded off the screen like a punch to the solar-plexus. Scenes of Cary Grant fleeing a low-flying, crop-spraying plane and then …

Film Friday: La La Layers

Without doubt my favourite film of this year is the best-picture-Oscar-winner-for-two-minutes – La La Land, and I have spent many a conversation attempting to explain why. I’m very aware that …

Film Friday: Goodbye Christopher Robin

Writer AA Milne returns from the first world war a shattered man, fearful of loud noises and the sudden shock of dazzling lights. So he decides to leave London with …

Film Friday: Flight

When a malfunction occurs, commercial pilot Whip Whittaker has to use every ounce of his strength and ingenuity to crash-land the plane. In doing so he saves all but six …

Film Friday: Blade Runner 2049

We go back to the future again and, once more, it looks just a tad on the bleak side – an epically dark and dysfunctional mixture of the shining and …

Film Friday: Victoria and Abdul

When the story begin Queen Victoria, Empress of India, is alive but not really living. She struggles out of bed, shuffles through her days, and shovels down her food. Then …

Film Friday: The Limehouse Golem

Elizabeth Cree is on trial, accused of poisoning her husband John, who is himself suspected of a series of savage, grisly murders in London’s Limehouse. The court finds her guilty …

Film Friday: Baby Driver

Gifted getaway driver ‘Baby’ hears the world through a veil of pop music. He has tinnitus and so listens to music all day to drown out the background noise. Here …

Film Friday: My Cousin Rachel

When Philip’s cousin dies after marrying the beautiful and beguiling Rachel, Philip is convinced Rachel had something to do with it. However when he meets her he begins to fall …

Film Friday: The Last Word

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Film Friday: Captain Underpants

George and Harold are two very good friends, who love playing jokes and have crafted a comic book featuring superhero Captain Underpants. When their school principal grows weary of their …

Film Friday: Spiderman – Homecoming

15 year old Peter Parker is not all he seems. He’s on a steep learning curve as he attempts to fulfil his destiny as Spiderman. After one attempt at a …

Film Friday: All is Lost

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Film Friday: Dunkirk

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Film Friday: I, Daniel Blake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq7-2ilFhJM When Katie moves from London to Newcastle she falls on hard times. Unable to get work or financial help from the authorities she first visits a food bank and …

Film Friday: Wonder Woman

Diana grows up as princess of the Amazons, training alongside them, but although she has incredible fighting skills, what she is called to do is battle for peace. She may …

Film Friday: Anthropoid

In 1942 seven Czechoslovakian soldiers are parachuted secretly back into their own country with the express purpose of assassinating Hitler’s third in command, Reinhard Heydrich, the cruel ‘Butcher of Prague’. …

Film Friday: Churchill

When Winston Churchill hears of plans for the D Day landings in Normandy he fears the worst, his mind filled with the disaster he planned in World War One at …

Film Friday: Brooklyn

Whilst taking some time out this week I watched Brooklyn on DVD, a story about Eilis, a young Irish woman who travels to America in search of a new life. …