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Even supervillains are looking for spiritual meaning. What’s so good about Minions: The Rise of Gru
2022-08-09T12:36:00+01:00By Becky May
Why is this lastest film so good?
Review: Thor: Love and Thunder: If you can’t speak with your kids about God after watching this film, you never will
2022-07-13T09:44:00+01:00By Andy Peck
Can you handle the weighty themes in this latest Thor adventure?
Choosing films for your kids? Why ‘Lightyear’ and the ‘gay kiss’ makes you stop and think
2022-06-23T12:55:00+01:00By Andrew Bunt who is Emerging Generations Director for Living Out.
Is this a film you would take your kids to watch?
Hotel Transylvania 4 – Transformania
2022-04-28T08:28:00+01:00By Joel Toombs
If there’s a ’4’ at the end of a film title, does it mean it must be good, or inevitably worse than the first three?
Spiderman No Way Home
2022-04-27T08:32:00+01:00By Russ Bellenie
Spiderman has got to be a winner, right?!
Eternals
2022-04-27T08:20:00+01:00By Joel Toombs
The title sounds like there may be some ’spiritual value, but is there?
Encanto
2022-04-27T08:16:00+01:00By Amanda Porter
It’s Disney, you can always trust Disney can’t you?!
Blue Story
2019-12-02T00:00:00+00:00
Gang film Blue Story hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons last month when a brawl broke out between knife-wielding young people at a screening in Birmingham. Tim Sledge, director of fundraising at XLP – a charity aiming to empower young people from disadvantaged backgrounds – shares why he thinks every youth worker should see the film.
The Lion King
2019-07-18T00:00:00+01:00
Heather Riley loved the remake of the Disney classic. But she asks if The Lion King has become too scary to be a kids’ movie
The Lion King
2019-06-24T00:00:00+01:00By Rebecca Hamer
The Lion King was originally released in 1994, shaping emotional and spiritual landscapes for thousands of children and teens.
Movie: Thor - Ragnarok
2018-03-23T00:00:00+00:00
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Black Panther
2018-03-20T00:00:00+00:00By Nathan Dennis
Another superhero movie is hardly news, but Black Panther is having a huge impact globally, including on our children and young people.
Beauty and the Beast - should I take my kids?
2017-03-20T00:00:00+00:00By Martin Saunders is the Director of Satellites, a new youth event helping young people to put God at the centre of their lives. His new book We Are Satellites, is out now, published by SPCK.
It’s a tale as old as time. In March, news emerged that Disney’s live-action remake of majestic 90s animation Beauty and the Beast features a gay character and the studio’s “first exclusively gay moment”, and immediately a host of Christian voices loudly raised their objections.
Deadpool
2017-01-19T00:00:00+00:00By Jamie Cutteridge
Deadpool is sweary, rude, sexually-saturated and incredibly violent. Young people are going to love it. To be honest, I did too. That’s the problem.
Avengers
2017-01-19T00:00:00+00:00By Jamie Cutteridge
You can barely walk down the street without tripping over a super hero these days. We all know the feeling of getting home and finding Spider-Man on the bottom of our shoe or one of the Fantastic Four in our bag – they’re everywhere.