Movie attendances bounced back in 2022 as quantity far exceeded quality. Only 20 exceeded the $1 million mark at the box office, with reboots dominating the most popular offerings. Top Gun: Maverick was well out in front, followed by Thor: Love and Thunder, with the latest in the Dr Strange, Minions and Jurassic Park … Read More about Looking back at the best of 2022
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Sherlock’s detective sister
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Legend survives fictional life
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War poet’s survival guilt
It is a conventional view of history that World ... Read More about War poet’s survival guilt
JAMES MARTIN: Essential Writings, selected and with an introduction by James T. Keane. Orbis Books (Maryknoll, New York, 2017). 245 pp., US$22. Reviewed by MITCH FINLEY (CNS)
The global political agenda each year is studded with summits of world leaders. Some are more interesting than others, depending on which issues are topical at the time.
FRIENDING GOD by Fr Antonio Spadaro, SJ. Crossroad Publishing Co. (New York, 2016). 90 pp., US$12.95. Reviewed by DAVID GIBSON (CNS)
It is taken for granted that virtually all major news events will be seen instantly around the world through 24-hour live coverage.
New Labour leader Jacinda Ardern has declared climate change is her generation’s “nuclear-free moment”.
Last month, around the anniversary of the sinking in 1985 of the Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warrior and the death of crewmember Fernando Pereira, many New Zealand publications carried the story of a French spy involved in the operation.
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Catholic Caring Foundation Appeal for Auckland Floods
