On the evening of 2 April, 2005, Wlodzimierz Redzioch, a Polish journalist who worked for more than 30 years for the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, was with the thousands praying in St Peter’s Square.

The Huntsman: Winter’s War (Universal) is both a prequel and a sequel. As such, it falls between two stools – with a resounding thud.

Forest, fauna and beast never looked as good as they do in The Jungle Book (Disney), a lavish retelling of the 1894 collection of stories by British author Rudyard Kipling.

Darkness hovers over the neighbouring cities of Gotham and Metropolis, the main settings of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Warner Bros).

When St Mary’s Cathedral opened its doors as a completed structure in December 2009, it was a notable event for Perth’s Catholic community, showing how 160 years of history could be unified and reflected in one building.

The fact-based drama Miracles From Heaven tells a remarkable story.

Rosendo Salvado is universally known as the founder of the Benedictine Mission at New Norcia, c.130 km. north-east of Perth. In recent years, scholars have shown a renewed interest in this fascinating figure of colonial Western Australia. Known for his enterprising nature and determination in his missionary work, Salvado is less likely to be known also as an accomplished musician and an effective administrator, for his openness to Aborigines and for his proficiency in European and native Australian languages.

“The battle for eternity begins” proclaims the tagline of Gods of Egypt (Lionsgate), a swords-and-sandals epic about warring deities along the banks of the Nile.

45 Years is a memorable film about a husband and wife preparing to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary, who are suddenly reminded that, contrary to what they may have thought, memories and photographs are everything.

Commissioned by the Archdiocese of Perth, the book is a significant work that places the story of the Spanish missionary within the context of the ecclesiastical tensions and colonial isolation experienced by the pioneer clergy and the laity of the Swan River colony.