Peace Through Music – Playing For Change

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Peace Through Music is a story of hope, struggle, perseverance and joy. Directors Mark Johnson and Jonathan Walls, along with the Playing For Change team, travelled the globe with a single minded passion to connect the world through music.

Their ambitious journey took them from post-apartheid South Africa, through the ancient sites of the Middle East, to the remote beauty of the Himalayas and beyond. Using innovative mobile technology, they filmed and recorded more than 100 musicians, largely outdoors in parks, plazas and promenades, in doorways, on cobblestone streets and amid hilly pueblos.

Each captured performance creates a new mix in which essentially the artists are all performing together, albeit hundreds or thousands of miles apart. Playing For Change: Peace Through Music is the story of this unparalleled international musical collaboration and its remarkable power of redemption.

http://playingforchange.com

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Mary Travers Dies

Mary Travers, folk singer and political activist lost her battle against leukemia yesterday. She was aged 72. RIP. She was the female vocalist in the iconic 60’s folk group Peter, Paul and Mary.

Mary was a relentless campaigner of civil rights throughout her life and used her music in this endeavor.

Rolling Stone

BLIND HORIZON

Val Kilmer, Neve Campbell, Sam Shepard, Faye Dunaway and Amy Smart

Shot in the head and left to die in the New Mexico wilderness, Frank Kavanaugh (Val Kilmer) wakes up in Black Point hospital. He doesn’t know who he is, what happened to him or what he’s doing in a desert town. Trying in vain to piece together his past, Frank is tormented by inexplicable flashbacks of a plot to assassinate the American president.

Desperate to regain his memory, he turns to whoever will listen – but no-one, not even the secret service, can explain what’s going on. Slowly but surely Frank begins to remember who he his and realises the terrible truth behind his visions.

Rated 15

NEMESIS GAME

Brendan Fehr, Carly Pope & Adrian Paul

Sara Novak is an introverted college student with a few skeletons in her closet. Shying away from her classmates, she prefers to spend time with Vern, a comic store owner who shares her passion for mind games and riddles.

But when the puzzles she solves lead to the deaths of those around her, she realizes this is much more than just a simple game.

Rated 15

THE THING

Kurt Russell

Horror-meister JOHN CARPENTER (Halloween, Escape From New York) teams KURT RUSSELL’S outstanding performance with incredible visuals to build this chilling version of the classic The Thing.

In the winter of 1982, a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100.000 years. Soon unfrozen, the form changing alien wreaks havoc, creates terror and becomes one of them.

Rated 18

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HIGHWAYMEN

Jim Caviezel & Rhona Mitra

Rennie Cray (Caviezel) is a man hell-bent on avenging his wife’s death by a murderous driver. For five years he’s been driving around the country, pursuing the man responsible for the hit-and-run, looking for retribution.

James Fargo (Colm Feote) is the chilling killer whose body has been reduce to a combination of human parts; prosthetics, straps and harnesses. His 1972 Cadillac has been transformed into an extension of his own body, a killing machine that he uses to torture and taunt unsuspecting motorists.

Rated18

SNAKE EYES

Nicolas Cage & Gary Sinise

Highly entertaining action thriller. Nicolas Cage is an Atlantic City cop who, along with an arena full of spectators at a championship prize-fight, is eyewitness to a political assassination.

Determined to quickly solve the crime, he immediately launches an intensive investigation…then learns that a search for answers will only uncover yet more questions in an ever-widening web of conspiracy, intrigue and danger.

Rated15

GIRL from RIO

Hughe Laurie, Venessa Nune & Santiago Segura

Above – Raymond (Hugh Laurie) dancing the samba with Orlinda (Vanessa Nunes)

Raymond catches his wife with the boss of bank where he works. Left to lock up over the holiday, Raymond decides to get his own back by robbing the bank and catching the first plane to the sun drenched beaches of Rio de Janeiro with his new-found wealth. He’s on the trail of “that girl“, the fabulous dancer who graces the cover of “Samba Monthly”.

Rated15

I love Latin dance and if you like samba then you will love Vanessa Nune’s performance in this movie. My only complaint – not enough of her.

RISING SUN

Sean Connery & Wesley Snipes

Rated18

Based on Michael Critchton’s provacative bestseller, this “smart, engrossing and electrically charged” thriller is as entertaining as it is thought provoking.

The special liaison officer (Snipes) is called to investigate the murder of a call-girl in the boardroom of a Japanese corporation. Accompanied by a detective with unusual knowledge of the Japanese culture (Connery), the two men must unravel the mystery behind the murder by entering an underground “shadow world” of futuristic technology, ancient ways and confusing loyalties.

As always Sean Connery’s performance is superb. He partners with Snipes and frankly without them you probably wouldn’t make it to the end. Some good puns are thrown in here and there and the CSI style science seems believable. Worth a view if you can get a cop cheap.

THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK

Groundbreaking Special Effects
Incredible Action Scenes
All Star Cast

Starring Vin Diesel, the gorgeous Thandie Newton and veteran actor Dame Judi Dench

Judi Dench, Vin Diesel, Nick Chinlund, Keith David, Colm Feore, Mark Gibbon, Thandie Newton, Linus Roache, Karl Urban, Yorick van Wageningen, Alexa Davalos

Rated 15

Riddick is on the run. Escaping from mercenaries determined to collect the price on his head, he finds himself at the heart of a battle that is not his. With Necromonger conquerors threatening the future of the entire universe, Riddick could be the only unlikely hero to save the human race.