Posts Tagged ‘ Film ’

February

So, finally we turn from the baby-fest to the provocative preacher.  February marks the bizarre American festival of Groundhog day. Sadly Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell arn’t gracing our televisions this next week – shame.  Underneath the rather barmy exterior it explores the relationship between head and heart.  Arrogant and mediocre weatherman Phil Conners lives  life in his head.  However, as events in small-town Punxsutawney unfold, he is forced to confront his attitude.   Eventually he begins to live life from his heart.  Once he realises that February 2nd is never going to end he begins to see his...

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Brian was right

So was his mother…  (well partly at least) I didn’t quite preach this last Sunday, but it was something similar, the following is pretty much the thinking behind it, albeit done after the event in true Primary/Secondary Theological fashion. Monty Python’s Life of Brian may have been one of those films which invoked passions of loathing or loving from religious commentators and practitioners alike however, I think that Brian may have been right. I’m pretty sure his mother was also right on one count at least, ‘He’s not the messiah’ but perhaps misguided on the second, ‘he’s a very...

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The Unfinished Story

About a Boy finally finishes, or not, as the title suggests… My Easter reflections on the final scene of the film.

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  • Cynical cynic

    There was, once upon a time a group of people who went about casting doom and gloom around the place, generally against the establishment of the day, casting aspersions about the state of play. And they were called cynics What has this to do with the reluctant ordinand? Ah, well the cynics all wore open toed sandals, had long hair and went about nomadic like from place to place in scruffy clothes!! remind you of anyone?

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