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Does our society really hold that much value in truth?
In our politically correct world all is relative, rather than true. Whats good for her isn’t good for me but that doesn’t make it wrong… He’s entitled to think thats true [...]
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Life on Film is the new show which explores the pro-life, human dignity and ethical themes in mainstream movies. It debuts on Life TV on May 6.
This trailer gives a sneak preview of the movies that will be discussed on Life on Film in the coming months – check it out and pass [...]
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Recently my brother (the other cinephile in the family) and I were discussing films, and we got round to exploring the issue of why the last decade of film has been dominated by so many movies about zombies.
This phenomenon hasn’t just been the hallmark [...]
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On Wednesday night my brother and I went to the new Kathryn Bigelow film Zero Dark Thirty, which explores the manhunt and eventual assassination of Osama bin Laden in a compound in Pakistan in 2011.
Let me start by saying that I don’t understand [...]
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Over the weekend, former National Party leader Don Brash posted the following status update on his Facebook page:
“My daughter recently took her 19-year-old cat to the vet because it was wasting away and not eating or drinking. The vet advised that the cat was almost certainly [...]
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Isn’t it amazing how the old adage that ‘twenty four hours is a long time in politics’ is proven to be true time and time again in this country. The latest victim of this truism was ACT Party Leader John Banks, whose bouts of amnesia about campaign donations and helicopter rides from [...]
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On Saturday night my wife and I went to see the film Contagion, the Steven Soderbergh thriller about a global outbreak of a deadly flu virus.
As is usual with films of this type (those about deadly pandemics of epic proportions), it doesn’t take long for social anarchy to [...]
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We are now just two days away from a general election in NZ, and with that in mind I thought it would be as good a time as any to explore the notion of voting ethically.
The first thing that separates voting ethically from other types of voting is that [...]
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The secret recording of last week’s off-the-record conversation between Prime Minister John Key and ACT MP John Banks (dubbed the ‘Tea Tapes’) has now become one of the headline issues of the 2011 general election.
What I find troubling about this incident is the way in which certain media [...]
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