We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't
- Frank A. Clark -
Movies and Spirituality
Reactions to the death of Princess Diana.
Who, in the name of God, is getting away with murder?
Why were they all GM's electronic cars destroyed?
The true story of William Wilberforce, who led the campaign to abolish slavery in Britain.
Tom, a Chinese Australian man in his early forties, writes about his childhood.
Arthur Miller's timeless tale of truth on trial.
Thanks to the popularity of their new burger, The Big One, fast food restaurant chain Mickeys are riding a huge wave of success. But there’s a problem: laboratory tests have revealed contamination in their burger meat.
When Santiago Munez is given the chance of a lifetime, he must leave his family, his life in Los Angeles and everything that he knows.
The idea that the world's oil supplies have peaked, or will soon, is gaining mainstream currency.
September 22Remember When The Whole World Looked Up?
Between 1968 and 1972, nine American spacecraft voyaged to the Moon, and 12 men walked upon its surface. They remain the only human beings to have stood on another world. In the Shadow of the Moon brings together for the first, and very possibly the last, time surviving crew members from every single Apollo mission which flew to the Moon, and allows them to tell their story in their own words. Featuring stunning archive material which has been remastered from original NASA footage - much of it never seen before - In the Shadow of the Moon offers a powerful and profound reminder of the extraordinary accomplishments humankind is capable of, as well as a celebration of the magic of moon flight and space exploration.
October 13François is a middle-aged antique dealer. He has a stylish apartment and a fabulous life, but at a dinner with a group he considers his dearest acquaintances, he is blindsided by the revelation that none of them actually likes him. He's arrogant, self-centered and harsh, and they don't believe he knows the meaning of friendship. His business partner Catherine makes him a bet: if he can produce his best friend, she will let him keep the massive Greek vase he acquired that afternoon on the company tab. If not, it's hers. Having accepted the wager, François naively tears through his address book, trying to shoehorn an increasingly unlikely series of contacts into the all-important role. Moving through Paris, he keeps encountering a trivia-spouting, big-hearted cabbie named Bruno. Bruno's chatty, lowbrow ways grate against François's designer temperament, but he covets the other man's easy way with people. He convinces Bruno to teach him how to make friends and sets about learning the "three S's" - being sociable, smiling and sincere - though they don't come easy. Ultimately, François victory will depend on Bruno's naiveté in playing along, but what's the cost of cheating at friendship?
October 27 A lush, moving, epic drama spanning two continents and two decades, Romanian-born, Paris-based director Radu Mihaileanu's incredibly moving and highly relevant Live and Become follows the life of an Ethiopian boy who is passed off as an African Jew to escape his ravaged country. As the years pass we follow Schlomo as he becomes a teenager growing up in Tel Aviv learning about Judaism and western values – and falling in love. However he also has to experience the war in the country's occupied zones and some vicious prejudice when he discovers some Israelis cannot accept that Jews can also be black. With the help of a local leader he grows into an idealistic young medical student, and secretly writes letters to his real mother back home. Schlomo is forced to make the heart-wrenching decision about whether to admit to the deception that has shadowed his entire childhood.
November 10 An exciting fantasy adventure, set in a parallel world where people’s souls manifest themselves as small animals, talking bears fight wars, and children are mysteriously disappearing. At the centre of the story is a 12-year-old girl, Lyra, who sets out to find and rescue her best friend, Roger, and ends up on an extraordinary quest to save not only her own world, but ours as well.
November 24As it is in Heaven
A successful international conductor suddenly interrupts his career and returns home to Sweden's far north to address his childhood grievances. But his remedial solace is shattered when the local church choir seeks him out for advice. He can't say no, and from that moment, nothing in the village is the same again. As the amateur choir develops and grows, he is drawn to the people of his home time.
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all should learn to hear it
- Samuel Johnson -
From the time his grandfather, John Adam Gates first told him about it, Benjamin has been obsessed with finding a treasure believed to be the greatest the world has ever known – one that has been amassed over centuries and moved across continents.
Ken Carter takes on the role of basketball coach in an environment where the ingredients for success aren’t easily found. Based on a true story.
One man seeks to fight a system which reinforces the greatest problem facing his students.
Billions of dollars of hoarded funds lie hidden and almost forgotten, but one man is sure that he can steal it… with a little help. Do the lines between terrorism and enforcement get blurred in the process?
Based on the novel by Ian McEwan, Atonement opens in England in 1935, on the hottest day of the year. In the looming shadow of World War II. An accusation destroys Robbie and Cecilia’s newfound love and dramatically alters the course of all their lives.
When he closed his eyes, his heart was opened.
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common except for their terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to leave together and do all the things they've always wanted to do before they die, according to their bucket list. In the process, both of them heal one another, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find joy in life.
Eleven year old David Wiseman is mad about cricket but no good at it. He has all the kit but none of the skill and he's a laughing stock at school. So when a Jamaican family move in next door and build a cricket net in the back garden, David is in seventh heaven.