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The Colors Within
27/01/2025 | ReformDirected by Naoko YamadaCertificate U, 101 minutesReleased31 January
This Japanese animated feature opens in a boarding school chapel, in which a teenage girl is praying the Serenity Prayer. In terms of real-life religious faith, this is not particularly odd; yet … Read More
Reviews December 2024/January 2025
27/11/2024 | ReformRumoursDirected by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen JohnsonCertificate 15109 minutesReleased 6 December
Jesus spoke of ‘wars and rumours of wars’, and told us to give our leaders their due. He also spoke of the End of the Age. In our … Read More
Reviews November 2024
25/10/2024 | ReformBlitzDirected by Steve McQueenCertificate 12a120 minutesReleased 8 November
People just getting on with life in dire circumstances, doing what they have to do. A mother searches for her lost son. An 11-year-old embraces his black identity. Women work in munitions … Read More
Reviews October 2024
02/10/2024 | ReformWatership DownDirected by Martin RosenCertificate PG92 minutesReleased 25 October
Now fully restored in a new 4K restoration, this 1978 tale of rabbits on the run proved that an animated film need be neither made by Disney nor sugar-coated for children. … Read More
Reviews September 2024
06/09/2024 | ReformFirebrandDirected by Karim AinouzCertificate 15121 minutesReleased 6 September
History. The Tudors. King Henry VIII wanted a male heir to the throne. His first wife failed to deliver, so he divorced her. When the Pope excommunicated him, Henry set up the … Read More
Reviews July/August 2024
03/07/2024 | ReformMuslim limbo
ShaydaDirected by Noora NiasariCertificate 15, 117 minutesReleased 19 July
An Iranian woman, Shayda (Zar Amir Ebrahimi from Holy Spider), is staying with her young daughter Mona (Selina Zahednia) in a woman’s refuge house in Brisbane run by Joyce … Read More
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