We analyse the latest movies from a Christian perspective in our Movie Reviews.
Friday 19 Mar 2010 · Movies
The Academy Awards are like that valued guest who always comes late to dinner. No matter how behind everyone else they are, they always manage to make an entrance. By the time the Oscars arrive cinema-goers have already been served numerous ways of assessing a film’s success. Critical acclaim and alternative awards abound, not to […]
Monday 15 Mar 2010 · Movies
Big Love – Season 3 Rating: MA Distributor: SBS Release Date: Tuesdays, 8:30 pm Bill Paxton stars as Bill Hendrickson, a former fundamentalist Mormon cult member who is now making his way as a businessman outside the confines of the compound he grew up in. His three wives run an integrated family spread over three adjacent homes, methodically […]
Extra-terrestrial spies visiting earth. Mass delusion of the human race and an alien plot to take over the world. Sounds like a TV storyline that would have done well in decades past. And indeed it did. Back in the 80s the sci-fi series “V” attracted more than 40 million viewers. But the producers of the […]
Monday 8 Mar 2010 · Movies
From early classics like All Quiet On The Western Front and The Great Escape, to modern-day epics like Saving Private Ryan, films about war have never failed to draw a crowd. Recently, the genre’s taken a new turn with a growing number of war movies dealing with conflict in the Middle East: there’s been The […]
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The Vampire’s Assistant Rating: TBC Distributor: Universal Release Date: March 11 The Vampire’s Assistant, based on the series of books by Darren O’Shaughnessy, has the compelling characters and production values to make for a surprisingly successful franchise. Darren Shan (Chris Massoglia) is a teen who has always done absolutely everything his parents tell him. The one night he […]
Monday 1 Mar 2010 · Movies
Shaun the Sheep Rating: G Distributor: ABC3 Release Date: Daily, 5:55 PM Aardman Animation’s Wallace and Grommit films are some of the wittiest and wholesome children’s programming available, but 500 times in the DVD player can make any classic look tired. So it with great delight that my family discovered the spin-off series Shaun the Sheep. Shaun is […]
Tuesday 23 Feb 2010 · Movies
The Wolfman Rating: MA 15+ Distributor: ABC2 Release Date: February 11 The Wolfman seems to have everything required for a box office hit: a stellar cast including Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins and Hugo Weaving; a lavish Victorian English setting; and a topic that seems to play to the current fascination with humans that transform into creatures of […]
Friday 12 Feb 2010 · Movies
FILM: Crazy Heart RATING: TBC DISTRIBUTOR: 20th Century Fox RELEASE DATE: February 18 I’ll be the first to admit that I’m no Jeff Bridges fan but Crazy Heart is the sort of story that could win me over. Bridges has recently won a Golden Globe for his performance as Bad Blake, a once-famous country singer who is now […]
Tuesday 2 Feb 2010 · Movies
AVATAR RATING: M DISTRIBUTOR: 20th Century Fox RELEASE DATE: December 17, 2009 By the time you read this, a twelve-year-old movie mile-stone will have died. This is not a threat; it is an inevitability, and its passing signals a watershed moment in cinematic history. In 1997-1998 the epic seaborne romance Titanic entered the record books as the highest […]
FILM: The Edge of Darkness RATING: MA DISTRIBUTOR: Icon RELEASE DATE: February 4 The Edge of Darkness is another opportunity to test whether scandal can permanently impair an actor’s career. Australian son Mel Gibson returns to the big screen for his first performance in seven years since several big falls from grace. Gibson plays homicide detective Thomas Craven […]
Wednesday 27 Jan 2010 · Movies
Daybreakers RATING: TBC DISTRIBUTOR: Hoyts RELEASE DATE: February 4 In this Australian-American production a virus has turned the vast majority of earth’s population into vampires. Normal humans are farmed Matrix-like for their blood, but rudimentary mathematics indicates a catastrophic supply shortage is on the way. A vampire chemist played by Ethan Hawke runs into a band of free […]
Monday 18 Jan 2010 · Movies
Kingdom RATING: PG DISTRIBUTOR: Seven Network RELEASE DATE: 7:30 PM, Saturdays Kingdom tells the sometimes comic tales of a city solicitor charged with handling the bizarre and moving cases of the folk of Market Shipborough. Stephen Fry is perfectly cast as the Cambridge graduate Peter Kingdom, who comes to practice law there. The series is a legal cross […]