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ARTS AND CULTURE

Self-absorption dressed up as romanticism
- Tim Kroenert
- 02 October 2014
2 Comments
It is almost impossible to sympathise with Aidan and his flailing ‘dream’. He decides to take the kids’ education into his own hands. He calls this ‘home schooling’, but it pretty much consists of taking them for trips into the desert or conning the salesman at a luxury car dealership into letting them take a car for a spin, while spouting trite platitudes about life, death and the getting of wisdom.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Women heroes of Muslim-Christian unity
- Tim Kroenert
- 28 June 2012
3 Comments
When a Christian man takes out his anger by literally kicking the legs out from under a crippled child, two women, a Christian and a Muslim, rush to help the child back to his feet. The women keep the peace in this deeply divided village, but the 'unity' is tenuous and to some extent a fantasy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Teen girl's post-traumatic guilt trip
- Tim Kroenert
- 21 June 2012
2 Comments
A self-absorbed teenager contributes to the road death of a pedestrian, then seeks to assuage her guilt without actually accepting responsibility. One teacher attemps to mentor the girl in her dilemma but is too accepting of her flirtatious advances to be considered a disinterested advisor.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Who hates Harry Potter
- Tim Kroenert
- 16 July 2009
4 Comments
The rule seems to be that one's attitude to Harry Potter should be either obsession, derision, or total lack of interest. If that's true, I'm in a minority: I am an equivocal fan. A few of the books are great. At least one is bloody awful. The movies are similarly hit-and-miss.
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CONTRIBUTORS

Richard Leonard SJ
- Richard Leonard
- 17 May 2007
Rev Dr Richard Leonard SJ is the director of the Australian Catholic Film Office and author of Movies That Matter: Reading Film Through The Lens of Faith.
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