With school holidays approaching we asked budding film critic Emily Gittins, aged 14, to give us a review of the long-awaited sequel to a Pixar family favourite.
Review by EMILY GITTINS
Film | The Incredibles 2 | PG
It has been a long time since The Incredibles (2004, PG) left us on a cliffhanger with the attack of the Underminer.
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Review by TIM LAM
Film | Come Sunday | M
Carlton Pearson was one of the most popular preachers in America during the 1990s, his Pentecostal mega-church regularly drawing more than 5000 worshippers.
But when he saw footage of starving children in Rwanda, Pearson had an epiphany: Jesus died for all humanity and ...
Book | The Shepherd’s Hut | Tim Winton
In Tim Winton’s fiction, reconciliation, sacrifice, redemption and the like work themselves out in the lives of society’s fringe-dwellers – those not usually thought of as upright, moral citizens.
In Winton’s latest novel, The Shepherd’s Hut, main character and narrator Jaxie is a ...
Book | Old Old Age: A Brief Guide | Ian Hansen
This book is written by a man in his late 80s. He tells of how the world has changed greatly from the one he grew up in.
Early in his life there was no electricity or any of the ...
Book | Paul: A Biography | Tom Wright
A new book from Tom Wright is always notable, even at the pace he churns them out. Here he returns to probably his biggest topic, Saint Paul.
This book is conceived as a popular biography, rather than another book on Paul’s theology, ...
BOOK | WHAT DID JESUS LOOK LIKE? | JOAN TAYLOR
Review by Nick Mattiske
Jack Broadbent is an English blues guitarist who has been described as having the ‘Jesus’ look.
We can instantly picture this – thin, European good looks, full beard and long straight hair – almost certainly, ironically, not how Jesus actually looked.
Book | Call of the Reed Warbler| Charles Massy
Our supermarket shelves may be groaning under the weight of stock, but it is increasingly obvious that our food economy is a problem.
Monoculture crops and overly processed foods can lead to obesity, heart disease and cancer with fewer nutrients ...
Review by Karel Reus
Book | The Day the Revolution Began | TOM Wright
Wright seeks to answer these questions, or at least throw light on them, in the context of a continuing theological debate. He argues that neither conservatives nor liberals have “seen the bodily resurrection as the launching of God’s new creation within the present ...
Review by Jean Warriner
Book | Joy Interrupted | Geoffrey Lilburne
This book could be very helpful to any Christian who has ever struggled with mental illness, especially depression, or knows someone close who has done so.
Christians can sometimes feel, or may even have been told, that if they are mentally ill it is ...
Review by David Southwell
TV | Louis Theroux: Savile | ABC iview
Louis Theroux has made a career out of asking awkward questions but in this documentary he has to answer them.
Louis Theroux: Savile is a 2016 follow-up to the previous program When Louis met Jimmy, where Theroux spent several days inquisitively ...
Book | The Character Gap |Christian Miller
Review by Nick Mattiske
The ball tampering cricket scandal has put moral character in the headlines again. While disciplinary action has been taken, deeper questions remain about why it happened – why on Earth the players thought they could get away with it and what sort of culture has allowed the cricketers ...
Review by TIM LAM
FILM | PAUL, APOSTLE OF CHRIST | M
Paul is one of the most significant figures in Christian history, so it is surprising there has yet to be a major Hollywood production about his life.
Paul, Apostle of Christ details the final days of Paul (James Faulkner, Game of Thrones) as ...
