Mothers Day tribute (podcast)
Here is Songs of Hope Mothers Day tribute. It consists of a poem and 3 songs. Broadcast on Songs of Hope on 13May18 at 8am
Read moreFilm review: ‘ A QUIET PLACE’, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
A Quiet Place is the second recent film that transforms a post-apocalyptic monster movie scenario into a highly effecting human drama. The other film is Cargo and coincidentally, the male leads in both these film, John Krasinski and Martin Freeman, started playing essentially the same character in different versions of the TV show The Office. In A Quiet Place, John
Read moreFilm review: ‘ WRINKLE IN TIME’, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
A Wrinkle in Time is the long-awaited cinema adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s1962 children’s sci fi fantasy novel. As director Ava DuVernay emphasised in a pre-movie address, the film is aimed at tweens and focused on their interests and concerns: identity confusion, bullies, first romance, the desire to see magic enter their dull suburban lives and the belief that their personal
Read moreFilm review: ‘LOVE, SIMON’, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Love, Simon pursues a similar ‘teen outsider’ path to a host of films, from John Hughes 80’s classics to more recent films such as the excellent Perks of Being a Wallflower. The difference here is that it follows a teen’s attempts to come out as gay. Nick Robinson plays Simon, a highly intelligent high school student who has been concealing
Read moreFilm review: ‘READY PLAYER ONE’, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Stephen Spielberg’s Ready Player One is an enormous nerdgasm, a sprawling big screen video game stuffed with retro pop culture references and teen geek heroes. Based on the 2011 Ernest Cline novel, the film is a love letter to gamer culture which means some are going to adore it while others may find it alienating and headache-inducing. The film propels
Read moreFilm review: ‘MARY MAGDALENE’, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Lion director Garth Davis’ new film Mary Magdalene is a low-key, very slow moving but occasionally stirring religious drama that presents a confluence of Christianity and feminism. As well as telling the familiar story of Jesus (or at least some of it), the film attempts to resurrect the image of Mary who since the middle ages has often been wrongly
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