Le Week-End (M)
Review by Emmet O’Cuana
Le Week-End opens with an anxiously bickering couple travelling to Paris via the Channel Tunnel. Their slights are cutting but affectionate, the various crises (who has the euros, who knows the way to the hotel) so recognisably conventional the film appears to be setting out to be a mild romantic comedy.
Bouncing Back Later in Life: On How to Age Well and Overcome Difficulties
Review by Bessy Andriotis
UnitingCare Victoria and Tasmania
“Well it’s the old story. People never tell you how to get old. They never give lectures of how to get old. Not in a big way. Lots of people tell you how to die properly. ...
Solomon Northrup /
from Saratoga Springs, free papers in my pocket, violin /
under arm, my new friends Brown and Hamilton by my side
The Abduction, Rita Dove
In his review for Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave, the creator of The Wire David Simon paid the highest compliment he could to the film-maker:
...Lanterns at Dusk? Preaching after Modernity
By Bruce Barber
Uniting Academic Press 2013
Review by Rev Dr Craig Thompson
In an age when large parts of the church are distracted by the question of what to do, Bruce Barber has prepared a valuable resource on the question of what to say, or how to preach, ...
Her (MA)
As a director, Spike Jonze has specialised in films that have a uniquely quirky character. His approach to film-making has drawn upon his previous work as a music video director, as well as a healthy respect for surreal imagery that he shared with collaborator screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation).
The Red Queen shook her head, “You may call it nonsense if you like,” she said, “but I’ve heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!” Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, by Lewis Carroll
The latest exhibit at MONA (Museum for Old and New Art), takes inspiration from the evolutionary theory of ...
“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, dir John Ford
In a smoky New York jazz bar in 1944, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Lucien Carr and David Kammerer heatedly discuss the possibility of a new form of poetry. They move through the different popular movements in history, citing the Renaissance as having been ...
THE public performance of an enormous wild sea mammal involves exploitation of both the animal itself and the trainers. It appears the only benefit goes to the owners of parks such as SeaWorld.
These people make the decisions while employees and whales alike deal with ...
Dave McKean is a man who wears many hats. Artist, film-maker, musician, photographer, his career has skipped across several mediums. First attracting attention for his eye-catching dreamlike covers for the American comic book series The Sandman, he has for years been an in-demand book illustrator, his surreal collages instantly recognisable for their unique style.
Cards, Carols & Claus: Christmas in Popular Culture and Progressive Christianity by Rex A E Hunt.
Review by Rev Lucas Taylor
Many products are published ‘just in time for Christmas’ (Billy Birmingham is likely working on a new 12th man box set as we speak). But there is an irony in the case of Rex A E Hunt’s ...
Leaving the screening of the new documentary In Bob We Trust, I think to myself that Father Bob Maguire (pictured), Melbourne’s ‘larrikin’ Catholic priest, has probably just become one of my favourite people. The film documents Father Bob’s ministry at the parish of Saint Peter and Paul in South Melbourne and the process of his forced retirement in spite ...
The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic, by John Shelby Spong
Review by Carlynne Nunn
As soon as you mention Spong in any Christian circle, it seems you meet with an opinion. Mostly everyone talks about how much everyone else talks about him. John Shelby Spong is apparently quite notorious.
