The genesis of Predestination seems to have been a competition to come up with the most brain-twisting time travel story imaginable. Never has a film folded in on itself quite like Predestination. Based on the Robert Heinlein short story All You Zombies and touching on other time travel and sci-fi films such as Looper, Time Cop and Minority Report, Predestination
Read moreNo one does intense, depressing existential crime dramas quite like the Scandinavians. Through movies like The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and TV shows like The Killing and The Bridge they have forged a dark new sub-genre termed Scandi-noir. Fans of this sub-genre, will no doubt be salivating over the prospect of seeing the latest disturbing Danish thriller, The Keeper
Read moreFrench director Luc Besson’s energetic, ballsy but occasionally crass and simple-minded action thrillers have left him almost as divisive a figure as Michael Bay. His latest movie Lucy, which stars Scarlett Johansson, will no doubt provoke vitriolic responses from both supporters and detractors. Scarlett Johansson plays Lucy, an innocent American student living in Taipei who has somehow hooked up with
Read moreListen to Songs of Hope tomorrow at 7:30am to hear Rev Kevin Pedersen continue his series on the subject of work. Is what you do at work, who you are? Talk time is 22 minutes. Segment is called “Words for Life”. Songs of Hope website: http://songsofhope883.com
Read moreBe listening to Songs of Hope at 8:45am this Sunday, 7 September, to hear the story of a devout Christian man, James Clerk Maxwell. He showed the connection between electricity, magnetism and light. This enabled Einstein a century later to show the connection between matter, energy and light. Songs of Hope website: http://songsofhope883.com
Read moreThis week on “Built For Speed” we look at two of the more unusual films to emerge this year: Richard Linklater’s epic family drama Boyhood and the extremely confronting German film Wetlands. It’s also classic album time and for September we go back to 1971 for David Bowie’s fourth album Hunky Dory. There’s also plenty of new music from Australia and
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