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This article was first published on Culturewatch. © Tony Watkins, 2011 Brad Pitt as Billy Beane in Moneyball. Image © Sony Pictures Releasing Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) sits brooding in the empty Oakland Coliseum stadium. He switches on his radio to listen for a few moments to the commentary of a baseball game, [...]  This article was first published on Culturewatch. Craig Roberts in Submarine (image courtesy Optimum Releasing. © 2011) ‘Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.’ Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) would probably agree with Tom Stoppard’s wry comment. Oliver is fifteen years old and anxious to be grown up, yet struggling with [...] This article was first published on Culturewatch. Peter Mullan as Joseph in 'Tyrannosaur' (dir. Paddy Considine). Image courtesy of StudioCanal. Life in a broken world is deeply unjust. Some people breeze through life with material security, happy marriages and hardly a care in the world. Others struggle through every [...] The First Grader (Soda Pictures, 12A, UK release date: 24th June) is a heart-warming true story of Kimani N’gan’ga Maruge, an octogenarian Kenyan man who exercised his right to an education and battled bureaucracy to take his place at primary school. Set against the background of Maruge’s history as a Mau Mau rebel, The First Grader [...] Emilio Estevez’s film, The Way, starring his father Martin Sheen and himself. As a committed Catholic whose family comes from the Galicia region of Spain where the film is set, this was a very personal project for Sheen. It’s thoughtful and emotionally engaging, and raises plenty of issues to discuss. Empire magazine gives [...] A conversation this morning made me realise I’d never posted this article here, which is why it’s appearing some time after the film. This article was first published on Culturewatch. Beware: spoilers ahoy! One of the many changes which the Internet has brought into our lives is that it is remarkably easy to [...] Africa United (in UK cinemas 22nd October 2010) tells the extraordinary story of three Rwandan children and their dream to take part in the opening ceremony of the football World Cup. During their 3000 mile journey, we encounter an Africa few people ever see; experience an epic adventure across seven countries; and feel the joy, [...] This free automatic Advent Video Calendar will display a different thought provoking video each day from 1st – 24th December, featuring speakers such as Philip Yancey, Krish Kandiah, Anna Robbins and Nick Pollard (you can preview all the videos before you install this). To install it on your website or blog just use the following [...] Nativity!
Nativity! with Martin Freeman and Marc Wootton. Image courtesy E1 Enterntainment Damaris has been asked by E1 Entertainment to create official resources to help churches, schools and community groups make the most of Nativity! (UK release: 27th November, certificate U), a wonderful family film containing a clear presentation of [...] I often lead film discussions, and equally often I’m asked to recommend films that are good for talking about. So here’s a list. It’s nowhere near exhaustive, merely a bunch of films that I’ve either used or that I’m confident would be great. I”ll add to this list as other things occur to me and as new films come out. The Culturewatch website, for which I am Managing Editor, is a great place to find discussion guides – around 500 of them, though they’re not all on films. I’ll try to link some of the title below to their discussion guides when I get a moment. [...] Damaris produced an advent calendar for WesleyOwen.com. I contributed three of the short slots. The first, Day 2, is a summary of the Old Testament in a minute. I know, it’s a bit fast. You’ll have to click on the doors to find out about the others! Once more good intentions of keeping up with blogging have gone the way of most good intentions. Anyway, the book, Focus: The Art and Soul of Cinema was officially published last Friday. My copies arrived on Monday – always an exciting moment to see the results of so much hard work nicely printed (11 [...] |
Tony Watkins is a writer and speaker on Christian faith and contemporary culture, with a particular interest in film. He is the Managing Editor of Culturewatch. |
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