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- 5 October, 2023
Film Review

Poirot meets the supernatural in city of canals
- . 28 September 2023
In A Haunting in Venice, intrepid inspector Hercule Poirot is encouraged to come out of retirement to investigate the death of the daughter of an opera singer and to solve two murders. Source: Australian Catholics.

When father met daughter
- . 22 September 2023
Scrapper offers up a slice of life in East London, where a smart and enterprising tween lives alone on a council estate after her mother’s death, until her absent father turns up. Source: Australian Catholics.

Three’s a crowd when sea captain finds love in old age
- . 15 September 2023
In My Sailor, My Love, a retired sea captain and his daughter must reassess their strained relationship after he begins a new romance with a widowed housekeeper. Source: Australian Catholics.

Big dreams, little keyboards in story of the world’s first smartphone
- . 8 September 2023
BlackBerry takes viewers back to the 1990s, offering a fictionalised story based on the rise and fall of the world’s first smartphone. Source: Australian Catholics.

Priest’s soul-shaking journey across Iceland
- . 1 September 2023
In Godland, a young Danish Lutheran priest sails to Iceland to build a church, travelling the rugged terrain and testing his faith. Source: Australian Catholics.

Chilling true story of child trafficking
- . 25 August 2023
Sound of Freedom is an American drama based on the true story of a former federal agent who rescues children from being trafficked in Colombia. Source: Australian Catholics.

Ward gets her hands dirty saving the farm
- . 18 August 2023
Besieged by drought, bushfires and ecological despair, Rachel Ward begins a journey of discovery to regenerate the land on her farm in the Nambucca Valley in northern New South Wales in her documentary, Rachel’s Farm. Source: Australian Catholics.

Alien lands in Wes Anderson’s unique world
- . 11 August 2023
A sci-fi comedy-drama, Asteroid City tells the story of a Junior Stargazer convention in the United States, which is disrupted by an alien from another planet. Source: Australian Catholics.

Pilgrimage to Lourdes provides framework for period drama
- . 4 August 2023
In The Miracle Club, a group of Irish women have a tantalising dream – to escape the gauntlet of domestic life by winning a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes. Source: Australian Catholics.