Categories: movies

• Eli, the movies & God’s word!

  “And the winner for the grayest, grimmest, most violent post-apocalyptic thriller of 2010 involving the Bible goes to…..The Book of Eli starring Denzel Washington.” This dark movie is not for the light-hearted or weak-stomached. It paints a very dark picture of humanity in all it’s unfettered barbarism, celebrating the survival of the fittest in all it’s glory and gory. In a post-apocalyptic world, Eli walks west, carrying with him a book that can save the world. The evil Carnegie also [...]

• beauty, the mirror and me!

  * Guest blog from Julie! Barbara Streisand said ‘The Mirror Has Two Faces’ is a film about transformation; transformation from the ugly duckling to the beautiful princess, transformation from the mindset that values the superficial without looking below the surface; transformation when an adult woman realises that her father thinks she’s beautiful; transformation of true friendship into deep, abiding and passionate love. Watching the film with my beloved caused more than a few smiles and laughs but also some tears. [...]

• a serious man

  Imaginatively exploring questions of faith, responsibility, odd behavior, dental phenomena, academia, mortality, Judaism,… and how they all might combine: ‘A Serious Man’ is the new film from Academy Award-winning writer/directors Joel and Ethan Coen, that explores these intersections. It’s the story of an ordinary man’s search for clarity in a universe dated 1967, orbiting the world of Larry Gopnik as a physics professor, having been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love [...]

• where the wild things are

  One of the nominated (many) things on Noah & Esthers list for our time together was, a movie and popcorn! Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are is an all-time favourite child’s books. As a child, I resonated with the character of Max, the boy sent to bed without his supper, imagining his own world of wild creatures, over which he rules as a king. Like him, I used to let my imagination run wild, drawing maps of other worlds [...]

• the reader…

  ,…is not romance as you may know it (!!) but is a bold, challenging and emotionally-distant historical drama. Ralph Fiennes is Michael Berg, the present-day narrator of this film and Bernard Schlink’s novel, a middle-aged German lawyer whom we first encounter making breakfast for a younger bedfellow but refusing to exchange intimacy for commitment. We reconvene in 1958 and 15-year-old Michael (David Kross), a clever child from an academic family, loses his virginity to taciturn Hanna (Kate Winslet), a mysterious, [...]

• quizzing question (22)

  What’s the most inspiring movie you’ve seen? Not the best or whatever… the one that moves you the most?…