Songs of Hope podcast Sunday 29/6/2014

Listen again to the “Songs of Hope” podcasts for Sunday 29 June 2014. 1. The first is one hour of great Christian praise and worship music, with a feature about the life of Francis Collins, the scientist who led the human genome sequencing team in the USA. 2. The second is a podcast of Gregorian chants, including : Agnus Dei

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Film review: THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, from Built For Speed

It’s easy to be cynical about a film like The Fault in Our Stars, a story of teen romance and terminal illness that updates Love Story for the smart phone generation. Yes, it’s often clichéd and emotionally manipulative but largely due a strong central performance from Shailene Woodley, the film holds together and offers at least a few moments of

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Film review: OMAR, from Built For Speed

Director Hany Abu-Assad’s latest film Omar portrays the saddening and desperate conflict in the West Bank in a believable manner that thankfully doesn’t ignore basic humanity of people on both sides. Omar (Adam Bakri) is a young baker who has recently joined the Palestinian resistance forces with his childhood friends the hard-headed Tarek (Iyad Hoorani) and the meek Amjad (Samer

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Film review: UNDER THE SKIN, from Built For Speed

The last place we might expect to find Scarlett Johansen is in a low budget Scottish sci-fi flick about murderous aliens and the grim monotony of life in Glasgow but that’s exactly what we have in the creepy, obtuse film Under the Skin. Sporting dark hair, a posh British accent and oddly anachronistic acid-wash jeans, Scarlett plays a mysterious woman

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Film review: MALEFICENT, from Built For Speed

So many mediocre cgi-drenched fairy tales, mythical adventures and superhero films have filled our cinema screens lately that audiences would be forgiven for feeling a bit jaded and approaching the Snow White re-imagining, Maleficent with low expectations.  This film is, however, one of the cinematic surprises of the year.  Exciting, funny, visually captivating and even emotionally involving Maleficent more than

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