Katherine Grocott

Features

Andor’s Prescient and Urgent Reflection on Truth

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Andor, Rogue One and Star Wars: A New Hope. Andor has wrapped up its second and final season. The Disney Star Wars television show follows the adventures of Cassian Andor as he participates in the rebellion against the Galactic Empire after Imperial stormtroopers destroy his entire tribe as a […]

Katherine Grocott · 13 May 2026

Features

Colonisation on Pandora

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Waterand Avatar: Fire and Ash. Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third instalment in James Cameron’s hugely successful Avatar franchise, is wrapping up its in-theatre run. If you have missed it on the big screen, you will be able to watch it on Disney+ in […]

Katherine Grocott · 25 February 2026

Features

Should We Idolise the Fifties?

Note: This analysis contains spoilers for Lessons in Chemistry and The Marvelous Mrs Maisel. It also raises issues of sexism, misogyny and assault. If you have heard any of the rhetoric that has come out of the manosphere, one of the common threads is the idea that women in the 1950’s were real women. They […]

Katherine Grocott · 15 November 2025

Features

Reflecting on Humanity with Resident Alien

Note: This analysis contains spoilers for Resident Alien. Resident Alien is a comedic exploration of how an alien, tasked with killing all human life, crash lands on earth and has to disguise himself as a human to fulfil his mission. The alien becomes the local small-town doctor, Harry Vanderspeigle. Over time he is “infected” with […]

Katherine Grocott · 27 October 2025

Features

The Ethics of a Digital Afterlife

Note: This analysis contains spoilers for Upload. Upload is a cutting and thought-provoking science fiction comedy, where in the near future, 2033, people can have their consciousness uploaded into a virtual, digital afterlife. In this simulated reality, people are able to live out the remainder of their “days” – or all of eternity if you […]

Katherine Grocott · 20 October 2025

Features

Adnyamathanha Pilgrimage: A Reflection

In late June I had the immense privilege of participating in an Adnyamathanha Pilgrimage, led by Rev. Dr Aunty Denise Champion. It ran over four days and took us from Tarndanya (Adelaide) in Kaurna country, through or past Nukunu, Narangga, Ngadjuri, and Banggarla lands, to the stunning Flinders Ranges in Adnyamathanha country. I was part […]

Katherine Grocott · 11 September 2025

Features

A Theological Reflection on Gilead

Warning: This article discusses violence and abuse against women and contains spoilers for The Handmaid’s Tale. The Handmaid’s Tale has concluded with its sixth and final season. Based on Margaret Atwood’s book of the same name, and its sequel The Testaments, it is a future dystopian exploration of one nation’s response to a fertility crisis. […]

Katherine Grocott · 27 August 2025

Reviews

The Penguin Lessons

Note: This analysis contains spoilers for The Penguin Lessons. The Penguin Lessons is a beautiful, surprising gem of a movie, based on the memoir of British teacher Tom Michell. Michell taught English at an exclusive private boy’s school in Argentina in the 1970’s when it was on the brink of revolution. Sometime in the past, […]

Katherine Grocott · 21 May 2025

Bonhoeffer. Pastor. Spy. Assassin?

Note: This analysis contains spoilers for the recently released film Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin. Movies often are a reflection of their own times rather than a representation of the period that is being portrayed. The latest Dietrich Bonhoeffer biopic from Angel Studios, established by three Mormon brothers and which is committed to showing movies that […]

Katherine Grocott · 26 March 2025

Justice Vs Revenge

Warning: This article discusses abuse, violence, and injustice. Reader discretion is advised. It also contains spoilers for both TV series Snowpiercer and Churails. Snowpiercer is a four-season television series that is based on a 1982 French graphic novel Le Transperceneige, written by Jacques Lob and illustrated by Jean-Marc Rochette, and a subsequent 2013 movie directed by Bong Joon-Ho. […]

Katherine Grocott · 10 January 2025

What Is Family?

A little while ago, as I was riding my motorbike on the way to the Theological College in Adelaide, I saw something that left me cold. There was a young man, dressed in a hoodie, with his hands in his pockets. He saw someone on the median strip, took his right hand out of his […]

Katherine Grocott · 12 December 2024

Grappling with Coercive Control

Content Warning: This article contains discussion concerning coercive control, abuse, and murder. Reader discretion is advised. It also contains spoilers for the television shows Under the Banner of Heaven and Fake. Under the Banner of Heaven is a miniseries that explores the brutal murder of Brenda Wright Lafferty and her 15-month-old daughter, Erica, on 24 […]

Katherine Grocott · 17 October 2024