Seemingly cobbled together like Frankenstein’s monster from bits of Harry Potter, Twilight and Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the latest supernatural teen-adventure romance, Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. Based on the first book in the series of popular novels by Cassandra Clare, this adaptation is, despite expensive and elaborate production design and a multitude of action sequences, strangely dull and
Read moreBest Medicine – TODAY – The benefits of the Mediterranean Diet with Professor Catherine Itsiopoulos and then I’ll be talking with Professor Ralph Martins about Understanding Alzheimers. Please join me, Gaytana
Read moreImagine Bridget Jones’s Diary and Zooey Deschanel’s TV show New Girl filtered through the mind of Woody Allen and you would have ultra-quirky, 20-something comedy Frances Ha. Greta Gerwig plays the ditzy, flaky title character, a 27-year-old woman who floats through her quasi-hipster life in New York City hoping to make it as a professional dancer. With almost no money
Read moreHere are the podcasts for Songs of Hope for 25/8/2013. They were broadcast on Southern FM 88.3 in the time slot 7am to 9am. The story of founder of Brotherhood of St Lawrence, Gerard Tucker, an Aussie Hymns podcast Prayer podcast for help, Psalm 5 verses 1 to 7 Spontaneous worship song from Sally Turner “How lovely is Your dwelling
Read moreWe’re the Millers is one of this year’s guilty pleasures. Even though it’s low-brow, formulaic and implausible, it’s still an enjoyable comedy. The film bubbles away in an amiable, mildly risqué fashion that recalls the National Lampoon Vacation movies. Its trump card is a fine cast of comedy actors led by Jason Sudeikis and Jennifer Aniston whose well-honed comic timing
Read moreSouth African director Neill Blomkamp burst onto cinema screens in 2009 with his superb debut film District 9. That film intelligently mixed sci-fi spectacle with biting humour, Kafkaesque themes of identity loss and potent social commentary about poverty, the plight of refugees and socio-economic and racial divisions in South Africa. District 9 was always going to be a tough act
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