Australian lifts 20 million out of poverty – podcast

Listen again to the story of a Christian Australian/New Zealander who pioneered micro-loans to poverty stricken third world families. He set up a bank to provide those micro-loans. He has lifted at least 20 million third world people out of poverty. His name is David Bussau.   Songs of Hope website: http://songsofhope883.com

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Film review: MAMA, from Built For Speed

The first two thirds of horror film Mama are so creepy and stylishly shot it’s a tragedy that the film succumbs to cliché and implausibility in its latter stages. This is yet another film with the production imprimatur of Guillermo del Toro and anyone who has seen previous films he has produced will know that this means spooky children communing

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Film review: PERFORMANCE, from Built For Speed

Not to be confused with Nic Roeg’s freaky 1970 counter-culture film, Performance depicts the traumas afflicting a revered American string quartet as they confront human frailty in its many forms.  The film was originally titled A Late Quartet but this was changed in Australia to avoid confusion with Dustin Hoffman’s film Quartet which also focused on a group of classical musicians.

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Film review: SKYLAB, from Built For Speed

Julie Delpy seems to treat her films as a form of family therapy as they frequently explore the emotional bonds and conflicts inherent in families. Her latest film Skylab is no different as it plunges us into a (possibly autobiographical) childhood reminiscence of a pivotal time in a woman named Albertine’s (Karin Viard) life. Neither plot driven nor particularly episodic,

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Film review: REBELLE (WAR WITCH), from Built For Speed

Rebelle aka War Witch is a Canadian film shot in the Congo which takes us on a harrowing journey into the world of child soldiers in sub-Saharan Africa.  Its slight narrative tells the story of Komona (Rachel Mwanza), a 12 year old girl stolen from her home by rebels and forced to become a child soldier.  Fuelled up on drugs

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WRITE NOW

Write Now -TONIGHT – Our Passionate Reader will talk about his book of choice and I’m hoping to have time to read a little from Jennifer Skiff’s book The Divinity of Dogs  and there’ll be more. Please join us – Gaytana

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