Reviews – May 2015

24/04/2015 | Reform

Spotlight on society

Together for the Common Good: Towards a
 national conversation Edited by Nicholas Sagovsky and Peter McGrail SCM Press £25

The “common good” is perhaps the holy grail of political and social policy. The latest quest, building on … Read More

Reviews – April 2015

21/04/2015 | Reform

Rain of terror

The Ark Written by Tony Jordan BBC One, broadcast 30 March, 90 minutes

Noah looks in silence over a post-diluvian landscape, fingers the dry ground and surveys the remaining pools of floodwater on the barren land. Then, … Read More

Reviews – March 2015

24/02/2015 | Reform

The true King

Selma Directed by Ava DuVernay Certificate 12A, 128 minutes Released 6 February

This account of the epoch-making march at Selma, Alabama, deserves comparison to films that were cinematically epoch-making themselves, including Gandhi and Schindler’s … Read More

Reviews – February 2015

23/01/2015 | Reform

Restoring the soul of the Psalms

Psalms Redux: Poems and prayers Carla Grosch-Miller Canterbury Press, Norwich £10.99 (available from the United Reformed Church online store; visit www.urc.org.uk/store)

This book uplifted my soul. The psalms which Carla Grosch-Miller has so … Read More

Reviews – December 2014/January 2015

01/12/2014 | Reform

Scenes from a martyrdom

Stations of the Cross Directed by Dietrich Brueggemann Certificate 15, 105 minutes Released 28 November

Maria is a 14-year-old brought up in a conservative Catholic sect so extreme that she has a crisis of conscience when … Read More

Reviews – November 2014

24/10/2014 | Reform

Broken in Brooklyn

The Drop Directed by Michaël R Roskam Certificate 15, 106 minutes Released on 14 November

Dennis Lehane writes grimy thrillers that imagine the American shadow in the form of broken men trying to escape the past. Two … Read More