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I don’t know how many articles or thinkpieces you might have read that draw connections between the technique of cricket and the foundations of western religion, but I’m about to add a number to that tally. Consider it my duty as a former pastor with an unhealthy love of the game of cricket. What started […]
If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This is the question at the heart of Steven Spielberg’s return to making films about extra-terrestrials, Disclosure Day. It is also the tagline for the film, appearing in marketing materials plastered across the world and people’s […]
I have been on a journey towards re-embracing my creative pursuits in a way that doesn’t force them into the box of monetisation and functional utility. In the past I have tried so hard to find a way to reshape my passions into something I could meaningfully call “work” or something productive, when in actuality […]
Director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland reinvented the cinema zombie in 2002 with the modern classic 28 Days Later, a film that still feels remarkably fresh and innovative upon a rewatch today. There was then a rushed and largely unrelated sequel without any of that core creative team, 28 Weeks Later, but last year […]
Wake Up Dead Man is the third installment of Rian Johnson’s Knives Out films, following detective Benoit Blanc as he solves elaborate and contemporary murder mysteries. These films have become one of the most unique and interesting film franchises of the 21st century, being somewhat of an anomaly in their unique, anthology-esque approach and authorial […]
Stephen King is without a doubt one of the most prolific and well-known novelists of the modern era. He has transcended the literary community and become an icon of pop culture, and most people would have a passing recognition of his work whether or not they were aware of it. An indicator of this is […]
A crucial part of being a disciple of Jesus is the ability to integrate your faith into your life in a meaningful and tangible way. It isn’t enough to simply understand the theory behind your faith – the x’s and o’s of Biblical literacy and historical Christendom. To truly embody the life of a Jesus […]
Maybe I have just been living under a rock, but in the last few years I have been appalled to realise just how common it is to use the word “alien” to describe immigrants. It is such an explicitly dehumanising term matched in its obvious implicit hatred by its brazen shamelessness. As far as I […]
One Battle After Another’s dire diagnosis of American politics Cinema doesn’t just function as a prism through which we are able to scrutinise the current moment; it actively urges us to do so. And now more than ever, the current moment is begging to be scrutinised. Things seem to be getting more and more desperate, […]
I had the absolute pleasure of being able to see Alfonso Cuaron’s 2006 modern masterpiece Children of Men on the big screen, thanks to the Sydney Opera House and Alexei Toliopoulos’ new Saturday Film Club. Being way too young to have been able to see it on its original theatrical run, it was an unmissable […]
Friendship is a strange movie, and it is strange for a couple of reasons. It sticks out as something of an anomaly in a world that seems to have abandoned the comedy film in its purest form. In the last two weeks I have seen The Naked Gun, The Roses, and now Friendship buck the […]
So apparently Superman is woke now? Let’s put aside for one moment the obvious fallacy in the very use of “woke,” usually by conservative white people, as an insult or critique of any real substance. There are countless words that have been written and spoken by authoritative and informed voices on the history of “wokeness” […]
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