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The Social Phenomenon

Facebook is a social phenomenon, as well as a increasingly influential business, and the film The Social Network explores many elements, though the irony is it is a personal story at a time when real life personal face to face contact is challenged by social networking. Read Peter Bentley's review.

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Gruen Transfiguration

Read a further consideration by Peter Bentley about the ABC TV Show, The Gruen Transfer, and religious issues. (An episode in the 2010 series focussed on religious advertising, including the JAAL Campaign).

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Movies as Ministry

Peter Bentley considers contemporary Christian cinema - Sherwood Pictures

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Reflections on ‘The Road’

Read Peter Sellick's reflections on the film (and Book) of The Road: Two ontologies of ‘being'

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Do all roads lead to God?

Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road is brought vividly to the screen.

Read a review by Peter Bentley from the April 2010 ACCatalyst magazine.

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Baz Luhrmann’s Australia

The film Australia - A review essay by Peter Bentley

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Bran Nue Dae

Peter Bentley reviews the new Aboriginal Musical Film

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The Boys Are Back - Film Comment

A review of and comment about The Boys Are Back - the new Scott Hicks film

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Samson and Delilah – a new strength?

Explore the themes in director Warwick Thornton’s first feature film about two Aboriginal children and their life and community in one part of the Northern Territory. Thornton's film won best first feature at Cannes 2009.

Peter Bentley's review won the Gold Award for Best Review at the 2010 ARPA awards.

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Balibo – An Inconvenient Truth

Read Peter Bentley’s reflection on history, and comment about this new Australian film about the deaths of the Journalists in East Timor in 1975 and the aftermath.

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