Film Friday

In this classic Christmas film George Bailey gets a glimpse of his town if he had never been around, seeing just how different things would be and he not been …

Professor Paul Matthews is a regular quiet guy who goes into his class to discover that many of his students have started having dreams about him. This goes on for …

The film Killers of the Flower Moon is about the appalling murders of members of the Osage nation for their land which, though initially undesirable, is now clearly rich with …

In the film Fireflies in the Garden Charles is a harsh and domineering father. When teenage relative Jane comes to stay one summer he tells his young son Michael to …

In the film The Miracle Club, Lily, Chrissie, Eileen and Dolly head off to Lourdes looking for, as you might expect, a miracle or two. Dolly’s son Daniel has never spoken and …

Elemental is tale of fire and water, a sort of Romeo and Juliet story. Ember is a fire elemental who helps her immigrant parents run Firebrand, the local store and hangout in …

The Old Oak is a pub in a village in the North east. It’s on its last legs in a community struggling to make ends meet. Then a group of …

The famous detective Hercules Poirot declares in this film that he has lost all faith in any signs of the soul or an afterlife. He has seen too much suffering …

In the film my Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 a Greek family return from America to Greece to the place where their father used to live, to try and locate …

Robert McCall is a highly competent and hugely motivated action guy, a man who goes looking for trouble so he can sort it out. In this movie he ends up …

This film begins with a relentless series of references to the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, the music and visuals here remind us of the opening scene of that Kubrick …

I have started re-reading one of my favourite books Where Eagles Soar by Jamie Buckingham, and in the introduction he describes salvation as being about becoming fully human. Which makes …

I was recently watching Matt Damon talk about the time he and Ben Affleck won Oscars for writing their film Goodwill Hunting. The interviewer asked them if they went crazy …

The latest Indiana Jones movie begins with Indy trying to get hold of the spear that pierced the side of Jesus after he died on the cross. It’s an ornate …

There is a moment in this sumptuous film, about a refugee celebrating the town that has taken her in with a lovingly prepared feast, when one character, the General, stands …

Everybody gets to play James Bond these days. Matt Damon famously played Jason Bourne in four movies, Chris Hemsworth is currently starring in Extraction 2 as the lead actioneer Tyler. Chris …

In the new live action remake of The Little Mermaid, Ariel wants to see what life is like on land, even though under the sea the world is beautiful and …