Film Reviews

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Superb animation celebrates reconciliation

Timothy Reckart | 17 January 2013 |

tags: Academy Awards, film reviews, interviews

Our exclusive interview with the director of an Oscar-nominated short film.

The Master: meditation on a lost soul

Raffaele Chiarulli | 15 January 2013 |

tags: film reviews, movies, religion, Scientology

One of America's most pomising directors, Paul Thomas Anderson, turns his attention to the quest for salvation through a modern, Scientology-like religion.

Life of Pi

Laura Cotta Ramosino | 09 January 2013 |

tags: film reviews

The film of the best selling novel, Life of Pi, may contain plenty of action and adventure, but its central preoccupation is with a spiritual journey.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Ronan Wright | 03 January 2013 |

tags: film reviews

Tolkien's tale is stretched too thin in this first part of Peter Jackson's new trilogy.

Our pick of films for 2012

Michael Cook | 02 January 2013 |

tags: best of, film reviews, movies

After consulting our reviewers, we've settled on our list of the best films of the past year.

Argo (2012)

Ronan Wright | 22 November 2012 |

tags: film reviews, Iran, revolution

In a life-threatening crisis you have to go with "the best bad idea" you've got.

Skyfall

Ronan Wright | 05 November 2012 |

tags: 007, film reviews, James Bond

Bond is back in this tribute to 50 years of 007. He's older now, a bit more human, a bit less agile. But he has lost none of his flair.

Won’t Back Down

Denyse O'Leary | 11 October 2012 |

tags: education, film reviews, USA

This inspiring film about America's failing schools has a radical diagnosis: shake off the dead hand of the teachers' unions.

Searching for lost fatherhood

Norberto Gonzalez Gaitano | 01 August 2012 |

tags: fatherhood, film reviews

Reflections on father figures in two great films, “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “The Tree of Life”.

Neo vs. the Karate Kid

Micah Watson | 10 July 2012 |

tags: education, film reviews

The Matrix and The Karate Kid offer two competing views of the relationship between how we learn and how we understand human nature.

Prometheus

Ronan Wright | 18 June 2012 |

tags: film reviews

Ridley Scott's latest sci-fi thriller delves into deep themes. Does it succeed?

For Greater Glory

Patrick F. Fagan | 05 June 2012 |

tags: Christianity, film reviews, Mexico

A stirring story of faith and heroism in 1920s Mexico has an unsettling relevance to contemporary America.

Spartacus: human dignity in meltdown

Harley J. Sims | 29 May 2012 |

tags: film reviews, historical fiction

Starz Entertainment’s series manages to up the ante on extreme content even in a desensitized age.

Meet the genre master

Harley J. Sims | 22 May 2012 |

tags: comic books, film reviews

Joss Whedon is proving a master of popcorn with two films currently in the theatres, The Avengers and The Cabin in the Woods.

Carnage

Ronan Wright | 20 February 2012 |

tags: film reviews, parenting

Roman Polanki's latest film mercilessly skewers the superficial values of America's snobbish elite.

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