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  • 8 Nov 2010
    New film series highlights plight of migrants in Mexico

    Mexican actor and producer Gael García Bernal has launched a new series of films depicting the plight of irregular migrants in Mexico.

  • 29 Oct 2010
    Pacific climate change film wins Leipzig revolution prize

    A film about 400 people on a Pacific atoll threatened by climate change, has won a prize commemorating East Germany's 1989 "peaceful revolution".

  • 13 Oct 2010
    Film on women in Afghanistan wins global Christian human rights award

    The WACC-SIGNIS Human Rights Award 2010 has been given to the Australian-directed documentary ‘The Garden at the End of the World’.

  • 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

  • 7 Apr 2009
    Religulous ends up going in circles

    Bill Maher's movie Religulous manages to laugh at nutty believers and caricature religion, but it doesn't actually tell us anything or indicate any learning, says Deirdre Good. It takes us in a circle - but not a hermeneutical one.

  • 26 Mar 2009
    Watchmen, sin and salvation

    The film Watchmen directly asks what no other superhero movie has ever had the courage or audacity to posit, says Kevin Boyd. Is society actually worth saving?

  • 9 Mar 2009
    Fairytale, myth and Slumdog reality

    There have been a vraiety of responses to the hit movie Slumdog Millionaire, says Alison Downie, including some quite dismissive ones. But what is written, she suggests, is that a life of integrity is its own reward.