Words for Life podcast
Words for Life for Sunday 8Jul18 was by Pastor Rob Buckingham of Bayside Church in Cheltenham. His talk title was “Running on empty”. Talk time is 18 minutes. Program: Songs of Hope
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Songs of Hope Sunday Worship
Listen again to Songs of Hope Sunday Worship, which went to air on 8Jul18. Play time is 16 minutes. All Songs of Hope posts on radio web site here
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The idea of human bodies being enhanced with technology has been a frequent sci-fi theme for decades with Robocop and The Six Million Dollar Man just two examples. Aussie writer director Leigh Whannell explores this theme in the futuristic action flick Upgrade but ads a sniff of the violent horror for which he became renowned with the disgusting Saw franchise.
Read moreFilm review: ‘BROTHERS’ NEST’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Brothers’ Nest is the latest collaboration between brothers Shane and Clayton Jacobson, the pairing that brought us the breakthrough Aussie hit Kenny. Brothers’ Nest, a Cohen Brothers-esque murder drama infused with family resentment and a touch of Hitchcockian creepiness is, however, a very different beast to Kenny. Shane and Clayton play Terry and Jeff, two middle-aged brothers who have decided
Read moreFilm review: ‘MARY SHELLEY’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
A film that focuses on the period in which Mary Shelly wrote her sci-fi horror classic Frankenstein should be a thrilling prospect for anyone with a literary bent but director and co-writer Haifaa al-Mansour has transformed the biopic, Mary Shelley, into a slightly steamy, mildly gothic romance between two Derek Zoolander-approved really really good-looking people. Elle Fanning plays Mary Wollstonecraft
Read moreFilm review: ‘SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADO’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
On-screen text at the beginning of Sicario: Day of the Soldado, the sequel to the much lauded 2015 drug-crime drama Sicario, delivers what seems to be a disturbingly ‘conservative’ message about people smuggling across the Mexican-US border, much like the sort of statement we might expect from a certain oddly-coiffured world leader. It appears that this film may have shelved
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