Every Christmas we review a popular Christmas film as a church, and this Sunday 18th December we’ll be watching Home Alone 1. Do join us at 4.15pm. In this blog post I want to give the rationale for why we do this. I have two basic points, with three applications. (1) Films are like sermons […]
Category Archives: Film Nights
Christmas According To Elf (Film Review)
Once or twice a year (and usually at Christmas) instead of having a ‘normal’ church service we do a film review*. We sit everyone around tables, watch three 5-10min clips of the film, and reflect on its themes. I (as the host of the evening) retell the basic plot between the clips. Last Sunday we reflected […]
Film Review: Robot & Frank
**Warning: may contain spoilers!** Every six weeks or so we watch a film together and discuss it afterwards. At the beginning of March we watched Robot & Frank, a story about an elderly gentleman and the robot his son buys to help look after him. After initial hostility, Frank develops a friendship with the robot, […]