Film Friday

In the movie American Hustle Irving Rosenfeld turns to his partner Sydney Prosser and tells her, ‘Play your part.’ She smartly replies, ‘Fine.You play your part.’ And that in a …

In the movie The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Gandalf travels to Dol Guldur and engages the Necromancer in a fierce battle. As the conflict rages the Necromancer hisses at …

Why are Christmas cracker jokes so bad? Because cheesy jokes unite people in their groaning. No it’s not a joke, it’s apparently fact. The problem with good jokes, good comedy, …

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The movie 12 years a Slave tells the brutal story of Solomon Northup’s time as a slave, particularly under the brutal master Edwin Epps who regularly beat his ‘property’ for …

In the movie Philomena Martin Sixsmith and Philomena Lee team up to try and discover what became of her son, born fifty years earlier and given up for adoption. Philomena …

In the movie August: Osage County the Weston family gather for the funeral of the father Bev. The Waltons this is not. The Westons are a dysfunctional bunch who snipe …

There’s a scene in the film The Untouchables where good cop Elliot Ness has a shootout on the stairs of a railway station. The climax of the scene comes when a …

I’m cautious to show you this clip from Blue Like Jazz, because it is what they call – a spoiler. An almighty spoiler really, it’s the peak of the movie. …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hgtU78yOkM Yesterday, in our local church, I showed this clip from Dexter Fletcher’s film, Sunshine on Leith. If the title reminds you of a song by the Proclaimers that’s because it’s a …

I have just finished watching a movie (a dark thriller) called The Place Beyond the Pines. It was not what I expected, which was one of the reasons I liked it. …

There was a moment in the movie Captain Phillips which really caught me off guard. Tom Hanks, in the title role, falls apart. And it’s done so well that it’s …

It’s an odd thing to do a review of a movie poster (!) and this is not really a review – just a reaction. As I was doing the school …

Last night I watched Woody Allen’s latest movie, Blue Jasmine, with an award-tipped performance by Cate Blanchette. She plays the title role, and goes to see her sister Ginger in …

I got the chance to see the movie Philomena last night, starring my favourite funny guy, Steve Coogan (who also co-wrote it) and that great great actress (not least for As …

About ten years ago a friend said to me, ‘You should do a session where you show bits of films and relate them to the Bible.’ At least, with my …