The Bond marketting machine is in full overdrive now. Must admit I thought it was a clever move having Adele do the theme. What do you make of this? Does…

  Just come home from  watching the Dark Knight Rises and really enjoyed it.  The story line is gritty, the baddies are so brutally powerful making Batman look so weak…

LEGO ‘INCEPTION’ from VFX on Vimeo. Love this video. Just heard Christopher Nolan definitely won’t be making a 4th Batman movie. So I am hoping this isnt the closest we…

Following a recent trend in teen fiction the Hunger Games is a dark and dystopian view of the future. Based on the first of a trilogy of novels the film…

1. Women lead the way It was inspiring to see so many quality women leaders within the UCCF staff team in London. They are doing a fantastic job of getting…

1. Films are a shared language I am trying to follow the lead of Tolkien and Lewis in exploring the way that: The heart of Man is not compound of…

 This week I am leading a series of evening events at All Souls Langham Place, home church for the legendary evangelical statesman Dr John Stott. It is part of a…

Looking forward to speaking at the London wide university mission next week. We thought it was important to make this mission week dialogical from the beginning and so we asked students…

  Controversy hits the internet with opinion divided over the new Batman teaser poster. Some such as the guardian’s film critic Paul Owen see it as showing lack of invention…

The final episode of the Harry Potter series is coming this Summer and the trailer is finally out. Watching it makes me wonder if this could be the finest continuous…

So here is my totally unofficial, unscientific, just for fun list of our family’s top 50 films for children. 50. Prince Caspian 49. Shrek 4 48. Old Yeller 47. Short…

This image of Michelle Obama and Samantha Cameron was in the Guardian today. Of course there’s great interest in the two “first ladies” different approaches to style. The new look…

I missed being at Reading today, I missed the buzz of the lunch bars, seeing all the students turn up and eagerly await the beginning of the talk, seeing their…

I believe the universities are a key place for the future of the church. As we are seeing a major lack of 20-30s in our churches the university is key place to work out how to contextualise the gospel for this rising generation.

Thanks to the kindness of the World Evangelical Alliance I was privileged to go to the Royal World Premier of Voyage of the Dawn Treader last night in Leicester Square….

In a Summer that has seen more dog films than I can remember. My top dog films this season are: 1. Hotel for Dogs 2. Bolt 3. Beverly Hills Chihuahua…

1. Bolt its hard to fault Pixar – I don’t think they are the masters of Computer Generated Animation and i don’t think they have made a duff movie yet….

This is a fantastic prequel. It is like the old Star Trek but on Warp factor 7. JJ Abrams does what he does best – pace, action, pathos without what…

So we put on our 3-D specs and we were transported into another dimension. For the first 20 minutes of the Monsters versus Aliens film you are amazed at the…

It’s been a while since Ben Affleck has been in a good film. Good Will Hunting – was a great way to make a debut Changing Lanes – was an…