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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

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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

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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

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, […]

Jonty Cornford · 16 October 2025

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Morning Wars: Power, Truth, and the Cost of Silence

When Morning Wars first launched on Apple TV in 2019, many expected a glossy drama about the high-pressure world of breakfast television. And in some ways, it is. The studio lights, the celebrity interviews, the scramble for ratings—it’s all there. But at its heart, the show is about something deeper. It’s about power, truth, and […]

Adrian Drayton · 8 October 2025

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Children of Men’s call to active hope

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 […]

Jonty Cornford · 17 September 2025

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Don’t Judge Me, but the Final Destination Films Taught Me Something About Faith

So, I binge-watched every Final Destination movie. On a rainy weekend. Yes, all of them. Even the new one, Bloodlines. Yes, I hear you saying that’s a lot of flying hubcaps, falling signs, and freakish household accidents. On the surface, they’re schlocky, Rube Goldberg machines of doom. But somewhere between the laughing at absurd death […]

Adrian Drayton · 14 August 2025

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Superman, Fantastic Four and the New Sincerity

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” […]

Jonty Cornford · 8 August 2025

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Let’s Talk About A Biblical Cinematic Universe

First, The Chosen started pulling box office numbers that made Marvel blush. Then came House of David, which shot to the top of Amazon’s charts faster than David took out Goliath. Now FOX is reportedly developing a prestige drama about the women of Genesis. Because apparently, the Bible is the hottest intellectual property at the […]

Adrian Drayton · 4 August 2025

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Teresa Palmer: “I don’t think I would be on this journey were it not for my foundation in faith”

Effervescing with peace and gratitude, actress Teresa Palmer is living proof that changing your mindset can transform your life. When, in February 1986, Kevin Palmer and Paula Sanders named their firstborn after Mother Teresa, they could not have predicted just how much her child would embody that name. For though she is widely known as […]

5 May 2025