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30 Nov 2010

Christmas lights give way to radical Jesus film in Hoylake

A community group in Hoylake, Wirral, will this Christmas be projecting the radical 1964 Pasolini film about the life of Christ onto a church in the town’s High Street.
30 Jul 2010

New website explores the relationship of religion and film

Interfilm North America, part of a global network which looks at the relationship between spirituality and modern movies, has launched its new website.
4 Mar 2010

Nazis massacred: Tarantino's revenge fantasy

Like some scriptural stories, Quentin Tarantino’s Oscar-nominated film 'Inglourious Basterds' is an extravagant revenge fantasy-cum-joke. But who's laughing, asks Mark Bilby, why and to what affect?
16 Feb 2010

Avatar: thrills and contradictions

Even without the 3D effects, Avatar is still an impressive film, says Hannah Kowszun. However there is a bitter irony in a film which extols the virtues of simple living and condemns greed becoming the highest-grossing blockbuster of all time.
28 Apr 2009

In The Loop... Fake Hawk Down?

Imagine a world of soundbite politics where the machinery of power is operated by vacillating professional politicians, out of their depth, jumping to the whims of ruthless, feral spin doctors. That, says Alan Wilson, is the film satire In The Loop
8 Mar 2007

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8 Mar 2007

Going to the movies, theologically