Film Friday

The film Air tells the story of the sports company Nike attempting to sign the upcoming Michael Jordan to endorse their latest basketball shoe. One of the guys in the company, …

The movie The Book Club: Chapter Two begins with the group members meeting on zoom. Yes, this film begins during the pandemic, and the four participants have the usual online challenges as they …

When Rob is assigned a new number for his phone he starts getting text messages from an unknown woman. The messages are honest and heartfelt and he begins to fall …

Harold Fry has faith. He believes that if he walks from Devon to Berwick-upon-Tweed he can keep Queenie Hennessy alive. He has received a card from her, and she is …

Early in the new version of All Quiet on the Western Front we see what happens to the uniforms of the German soldiers who are killed in the trenches. They are packed …

Multiverses are popular in film at the moment. A while back we had Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Dr Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Everything Everywhere All at Once, and …

The poster for the forthcoming film The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry features the strapline ‘Hope is a Journey’. Harold leaves the house one day to post a reply to a card from a friend …

‘Life Finds a Way.’ This is a quote from the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World series of movies. It appears on one of the posters. And it came to mind …

This film is set in the Hollywood of the 1920s and 30s, as silent movies give way to sound. It tells the tale of folks chasing success and stardom and …

I recently put together a short drama about Jesus going into the wilderness, and as I was writing it a thought crept into my head from leftfield. I always think …

Puss in Boots has a problem, he is down to the last of his nine lives, and the only way he can retrieve the other lives is by finding the …

This week’s film-inspired thought comes from a movie based on the true and continuing story of Dave Fishwick and his independent bank in Burnley. With local folk struggling and unable …

Otto is unhappy. And he doesn’t like other people. He is tired of life and has had enough. However, other people keep invading his space, and though at first he …

In the online movie Testament (you can find it here at angel.com) Luke is going around collecting stories about Jesus. I have often thought of Luke as journalist, gathering reports and …

Fame is bad for you. Sorry to be so unequivocal about it, perhaps it’s fairer to say, too much fame is bad for you. It’s certainly the thought I was …

Watching the latest Avatar movie – The Way of Water – it seems to me that in this age where many see no great overarching truth in life, we still long for …

The film Imagine That is about high-flying executive Evan Danielson and his young daughter Olivia. Evan’s career is not in a good way, but when he starts to spend time with Olivia …

The Swimmers is based on the true story of Syrian sisters Yusra and Sara Mardini who escaped their war-torn country on a journey that included a plane, trucks, buses, cars, …