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What can we learn from the film Bruce Almighty?

Twenty questions to help us think more carefully about films - or to use in film discussion evenings.

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According to the Romans, ‘bread and circuses’ were the key to keeping a population content. As long as their immediate physical…

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The second of the two films adapted from J.K. Rowling’s final Harry Potter novel begins at the place where the first left us hanging:…

When newspaper columnist Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.) meets homeless, schizophrenic Juilliard-dropout Nathaniel Anthony Ayers Jr. (Jamie…