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You know Mark Hadley and Ben McEachen as regular contributors to the Culture Watch section of Insights. What you may not know is they do a weekly vodcast called The Big Picture.

Come back each week to hear their take on the latest films from a spiritual perspective.

This week they review the lastest film Chappie, the new science fiction flick from South African directorial powerhouse, Neill Blomkamp. Starring Hugh Jackman, Sigourney Weaver and Dev Patel, the film explores artificial intelligence through the robotic lens of the titular character, Chappie. Ben and Mark discuss the film, the genre and the Christian context of the film.

You can listen to a podcast The Big Picture program here (file is about 24MB). The whole podcast includes many other segments about pop culture that is worth checking out.