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The Bible: a (secret) History (of women)

February 14, 2010

Tonight’s episode of Channel 4’s The Bible: a History was different again. The Daughters of Eve was presented by historian Bettany Hughes looking at the place of women in the Bible, and trying to uncover a perspective other than the caricature of traditional misogyny. In some ways, I would say this was the best of [...]

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Being Human: how not to do a review

January 29, 2010

Imagine a review of a series of novels in which the reviewer dismissed a trilogy on the basis of disliking the third chapter of the second book, in part because he didn’t understand the story. But that’s pretty much what the Church Times TV reviewer Gillean Craig does in today’s paper (sorry it’s behind the [...]

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Moon: a film that’s well worth watching

December 19, 2009
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I stumbled across Moon by accident. It got no theatrical release anywhere near here, and I must have missed what publicity there was when it was released in the summer. It’s currently out on DVD and Blu-ray here in the UK and coming out next month elsewhere.
It is a great example of a sort of [...]

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Walt Disney’s Genesis or Tom Cruise plays Noah

November 9, 2009

Peter Enns draws attention with a very favourable review to the Old Testament set of the Bible Backgrounds Commentary. He sees it a really good set for

“bridging the gap” between the state of Old Testament scholarship and every-day Bible readers, a gap that is remarkably large, given the fact that so much information has been [...]

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MacCulloch’s History of Christianity

November 3, 2009
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I’ve just finished reading Diarmaid MacCulloch’s massive History of Christianity . The TV series based on this begins this Thursday on BBC4. I’m not going to try to review it, since I would guess there is only a small band of people competent enough to do so, but I do want to commend it. If [...]

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Half-Blood Prince: full-blooded entertainment

July 19, 2009
Quidditch team at breakfast

Reviews of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince seem quite mixed, although judging by last night’s crowd leaving the cinema, most ordinary Potter watchers seemed quite entranced. I have to say I find myself in two minds. On the one hand I felt engaged throughout and thoroughly entertained, on the other there were some things [...]

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