Reviews – February 2018

26/01/2018 | Reform

Loving the alien

The Shape of Water Directed by Guillermo del Toro Certificate 15, 123 minutes Released 14 February

There’s a tradition in horror films and fairytales that the monster is bad. The Shape Of Water is … Read More

Reviews – December 2017/January 2018

24/11/2017 | Reform

How do people cope?

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Directed by Martin McDonagh Certificate 12A, 105 minutes Released 12 January

Outraged at police slowness in solving her daughter’s rape and murder case, Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) commissions the eponymous three … Read More

Reviews – November 2017

31/10/2017 | Reform

Advent reads

 

 

 

 

 

 

Advent for Everyone: A journey with the apostles / Unearthly Beauty: Through Advent with the saints Tom Wright / Magdalen Smith SPCK, £8.99 each, ISBNs: 9780281078387 and 9780281077182

In Touch with God: Advent meditations on … Read More

Reviews – October 2017

22/09/2017 | Reform

How to spread the Gospel

 

Spiritual and Religious: The Gospel in an age of paganism Tom Wright SPCK £9.99 ISBN: 9780281072842

 

Christians in our society struggle to know how to challenge the prevailing … Read More

Reviews – September 2017

25/08/2017 | Reform

A story of racism

Detroit Directed by Kathryn Bigelow Certificate 15, 143 minutes Released 25 August

Detroit, 1967. Civil unrest. Looters shot on the street by police. A largely white police force try to contain mainly black rioters. When a … Read More

Reviews – July/August 2017

30/06/2017 | Reform

Love crosses the cultural divide

The Big Sick Directed by Michael Showalter Certificate 15, 119 minutes Released 28 July

A stand-up comedian who moonlights as an Uber driver, Kumail (Kumail Nanjiani) meets Emily (Zoe Kazan) at one of his gigs. … Read More