BEST MEDICINE

BEST MEDICINE – today – I’ll speak with Dr Berit Nordstrand about her book: The Scandinavian Belly Fat Program and later I’ll talk with Ian Wood National Coordinator of Christians Supporting Choice for Voluntary Euthanasia. Please join me, Gaytana

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Film review: EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT, from ‘Built For Speed’

The powerful, disturbing drama Embrace of the Serpent provides a scathing indictment of white colonialism and it’s destruction of indigenous cultures in the Amazon basin. The film is based on the diaries of two scientists from different decades: German ethnographic researcher Theodor Koch-Grunberg (Jan Bijvoet) and Botanist Richard Evans Schultes (Brionne Davis). Koch-Grunberg conducted a four year study of the

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Film review: JASON BOURNE, from ‘Built For Speed’

Back in 2002 The Bourne Identity established in Jason Bourne, a new kind of movie spy, one with the destructive skills and resourcefulness of James Bond but none of the imperialism, sexism or playboy antics. This approach was refreshingly gritty and confronting and not surprisingly has heavily influenced the style of recent Bond films. The Bourne franchise struck a major

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Film review: HITCHCOCK/ TRUFFAUT, from Built For Speed

The title of the documentary Hitchcock/ Truffaut may lead people to think it is a parallel biopic of both Alfred Hitchcock and Francois Truffaut and that it examines in detail the life and work of arguably the 1950’s two most important film-makers. That’s not quite the case as the focus of this documentary is a 1966 meeting between the two

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‘Built For Speed’, Playlist, Friday 9th September 2016

Built for Speed – 9th September 2016 SUPERGRASS – Richard III. DEER HOOF – Dispossessor. THE JAYHAWKS – Quiet corners and empty spaces. ANGEL OLSEN – Shut up and kiss me. ROGER WATERS, VAN MORRISON & THE BAND – Comfortably numb. GEORGE HARRISON – What is life. TISM – Martin Scorsese is really quite a jovial fellow. THE MONARCHS –

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