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Films, TV & Radio

Reviews & previews of Films, TV shows and Radio programs.


Film: Cabrini

There is a striking bronze of the St Francesca Cabrini, popularly known as Mother Cabrini, in St George's Cathedral in Southwark. A sickly Italian nun, with a passion for the poor, she became one of the first American citizens to be canonised as a saint. I knew nothing about her so I was delighted to be able to watch this beautiful and inspirational new film about her life produced by Metanoia fil... Read More


The Chosen new series has arrived

Jonathan Roumie arrives at London premier

The long awaited new series of the Chosen begins today - with a two-week run of the first three episodes in cinemas around the UK. Episodes 4 through 6 will come out on 15 February and episodes 7 and 8 will be shown from February 29. Once its theatre run is over, the series will appear on The Chosen app, as well as television and cable. The new series received a rapturous welcome when it premie... Read More


The Chosen - Season Four

Jonathan Roumie, arriving at the London premier on Monday - image: Mary Carson.

A new season of The Chosen, the popular TV drama series about the ministry of Jesus and his disciples, is about to be released next week (2nd February). This will be season four. To herald this, there was a huge premiere last week (23rd January) in one of the big cinemas in Leicester Square. Cast members were flown over from the US for the full red carpet treatment with flashing lights, microphone... Read More


Film: Long Walk To Freedom

There's a chance to see the award-winning film: 'Mandela - Long Walk to Freedom' at the Tim Hetherington Film Club, Farm Street this Thursday. On 10 May 2024 it will be 30 years since Nelson Mandela became the first black (Xhosa) president of South Africa. In 1993 with FW de Klerc, he was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the peaceful termination of apartheid and for laying the foundation... Read More


Film: The Holdovers

Paul Giamatti and Dominic Sessa

This is a lovely, slightly long (well over two hours) but beautifully filmed movie, written by David Hemingson and directed by Alexander Payne (Sideways, The Descendants and Downsizing). Payne is known for his character driven and social comment films and this film falls into this genre. Set in the 1970s, the film takes place over the Christmas holidays at Barton Academy, a posh boarding school fo... Read More


London: New course explores salvation on screen

A new course starting this week at the London Jesuit Centre will explore how films depict salvation of various kinds, and in various ways; how we might reflect on this to deepen our understanding of the Christian understanding of salvation. Participants will have the opportunity to use film as a medium for sustained theological reflection; to explore how ideas are animated and given shape by stori... Read More


Please vote for this new Jesuit film

Every year over 400 charities, CICs and social enterprises of all shapes and sizes, representing all sorts of causes take part in the Smiley Charity Film Awards, which celebrate great film making that captures hearts and minds. This new film - 'The Servant' - focuses on a day in the life of a Jesuit priest working in a parish with lots of challenges. Dermot Preston is a Jesuit priest serving the p... Read More


Film: The Shift

With Advent starting - an interesting Sci-fi film called 'The Shift' written and directed by Brock Heasley and produced by Dallas Jenkins of 'The Chosen' fame is about to hit our screens. Although not a Sci-fi devotee, I found the film quite intriguing. It's has a Christopher Nolan feel with the same sense of mystery and disorientation. The story draws on films like the Matrix and the idea that th... Read More


Film: Israelism

The new film Israelism explores the struggle over control of the narrative concerning the state of Israel within American Jewry. Given the atrocities committed by Hamas fighters on October 7th and the subsequent and ongoing brutal response by the Israeli state in Gaza, along with settler violence in the occupied West Bank, the film has been released at a highly sensitive time. Its very title is pr... Read More


A Dramatic Film of Martyrdom in El Salvador

This Thursday, November 16th, marks the 34th anniversary of the martyrdom in San Salvador of six Jesuit priests and their housekeeper and daughter. In 1989, amidst a long and bloody civil war, Ignacio Ellacuria SJ and his colleagues worked tirelessly to secure a negotiated peace. Targeted by the Salvadoran military High Command, they were brutally assassinated in their university residence. The... Read More


Film: Killers of the Flower Moon

By 1918, when this epic film directed by Martin Scorsese opens, Native Americans were something of a lost minority in their own land - in reservations, or wandering from place to place in the Oklahoma Badlands, as is with the Osage Nation here. In silent film style, their situation is dramatised, poverty and on the move, the sudden gushers of oil on Osage Land, unexpected wealth and affluent lifes... Read More


The Chosen 2024 Premier to take place in London

For the first time, the groundbreaking drama on the life of Jesus The Chosen, which has become one of the most-watched shows in the world, will premiere brand new episodes outside of America. The Chosen has announced its Season 4 Global Red Carpet Premiere in London England on Monday, 22 January, 2024. The red carpet will be joined by cast and crew members from the hit show, along with press, key... Read More


Journey to Bethlehem film review

It is very hard to do religious themed films well and get the tone right. 'Journey to Bethlehem', a musical about the birth of Christ, has its heart in the right place but I think it will be hard to find an audience. It has come from the imagination of Adam Anders, a well knownSwedish composer and musical producer, who was one of the people involved in the successful TV show Glee, about a high sch... Read More


Movie: Rock Hudson: All that Heaven Allowed

ROCK HUDSON: ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWED - Available to download and rent on digital platforms from 23 October

Rock Hudson: All that Heaven Allowed Universal: 1 hr, 45 minutes. Stephen Kijak, Director. Rock Hudson was one of the most famous Hollywood stars of his day. This documentary draws on a wealth of film archives and personal reminiscence, tracing how he never quite came to terms with his gayness, even as his career reached stellar proportions. The film is also an implicit critique of the American s... Read More

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