Over two weeks, Archdiocese of Perth Communications and Media Manager James Parker writes about Archbishop Timothy Costelloe’s keynote address entitled ‘Religious Life Today – A Gospel Path which calls to us’

There could not have been a better writer taking on the brief biography of ANZAC Catholic Army Chaplain Fr John Fahey than leading Western Australian historian, author and researcher Ruth Marchant-James.

Forget the Avengers. The coolest Marvel-related character this year is Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, better known to the world as St John XXIII.

Despite its title, the competent ensemble drama Do You Believe? is not a film well calculated to invite the attention of the inquisitive, still less to convert the doubtful.

True to form, exotic settings, stale dictums and always-murky moral values characterise Furious 7, the latest instalment in the Fast and Furious series.

By Mark Pattison The famed 805km Camino trek from southern France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, takes pilgrims about a month or a bit more, depending on the pace, the pilgrim's fitness, any hurts sustained along the way, sightseeing and the like. But bringing a film about the Camino to viewers took filmmaker Lydia Smith five years. Smith did her filming in the spring of 2009 on...

By John Mulderig Parents looking for acceptable Easter-break entertainment for the kids will probably be satisfied with the lightweight, animated adventure Home (Fox). Whether viewers young or old will remember anything about this merely passable picture by the time Pentecost rolls around, however, is another question. At the centre of the movie's unimpeachable - if uninspired - pr...

It is axiomatic that you cannot tell a book by its cover. But in the case of Mannix – Brenda Niall’s splendid new biography of Archbishop Mannix – the dust jacket certainly tells a lot about Daniel Mannix and the challenges facing his biographers.

Teenagers are still on the run, when they’re not too busy killing one other, in The Divergent Series: Insurgent, the follow-up to last year’s kick-off of the futuristic franchise.

Cinderella (Disney) injects vibrant new life into a venerable fairy tale. The result is an exuberant live-action retelling of the oft-filmed fable, the most famous screen version of which is Disney’s classic 1950 animated feature.