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

Reviews – June 2017

26/05/2017 | Reform

Meet the Trinity

The Shack Directed by Stuart Hazeldine Certificate 12a, 132 minutes Released 9 June

Mack (Sam Worthington) takes his kids on a camping trip with friends. Tragedy threatens to strike when the canoe of his daughter Katie and … Read More

Reviews – May 2017

02/05/2017 | Reform

Healing the divide between nations

Frantz Directed by François Ozon Certificate 12a, 113 minutes Released 12 May

Shot largely in ravishing black and white to recreate a time before colour photography existed – although occasional colour enhances … Read More