On Mind Body, Heart & Soul – Monday 5 June at 10.00am, Christine’s chatting to Stephen Le Page re U3A (University of the Third Age) and the courses it offers. Stephen teaches Mindfulness Meditation and another course called “Calming, Relaxing, and Living skills for older folk living in a modern technological world. Stephen’s background is varied and interesting… Tune in
Read moreWith funny, street smart, cartoonishly violent gangster movies like Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch Guy Ritchie was, in the 1990’s, being touted as Britain’s answer to Quentin Tarantino. Unfortunately, his recent, confusingly-plotted, over-the-top, near-indigestible offerings such as the Sherlock Holmes movies and the irritating Rock’n’Rolla have seen him become more like Britain’s answer to Michael Bay. Consequently,
Read moreA strange mash-up of M Night Shyamalan’s better work and Meet the Parents, the socially perceptive, comedy-inflected horror film Get Out is an impressive directorial debut for Jordan Peel. Here, Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) is the boyfriend nervously heading to a first encounter with his girlfriend’s parents. He’s particularly anxious because his white girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) hasn’t mentioned to
Read moreCelebrated and provocative French director Francois Ozon’s latest film Frantz is a slow-moving but undeniably affecting piece of cinematic art. Set in 1919 with Europe physically and emotionally scarred by the First World War, the film focuses on young German woman Anna (Paula Beer) whose fiancée Frantz (Anton von Lucke) was killed in the trenches in France. Visiting the cemetery
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Read moreThis week ‘Built For Speed’ casts a critical eye over two big commercial cinema releases, the latest ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ saga ‘Dead Men Tell No Tales’ and (believe it or not) a big screen adaptation of ‘Baywatch’ which stars Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and Zac Efron. There’s plenty of great music with favourites and new tracks from Australia and
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