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On Sunday 24 May 2026, Southern FM’s Hugo Smith and a team of our youngest presenters were at Sandringham Village for our Outside Broadcast from the Sandringham Young Creators Market. Photo: Magnus interviewing a stall holder at Sandringham Young Creators Market 2026. Enjoy the podcast here. Thank you to Sandy Street Art Project and Sandy Village Traders for inviting Southern
Read moreDon’t be put off by the title, Hokum is a superbly creepy, atmospheric and inventive supernatural horror film that, without being too derivative, evokes classics such as The Shining. While this film employs familiar haunted house or in this case haunted hotel tropes, its writer director Damian McCarthy plays with these to craft a skin crawling experience that impressively promotes
Read moreWarwick Thornton is arguably Australia’s finest contemporary film director. With works such as Sampson and Delilah and Sweet Country he has crafted unflinching, gritty, yet poetic and masterfully constructed films celebrating First Nations Peoples while laying bare the often brutal prejudice inflicted on them. His latest film, Wolfram is a sequel of sorts to Sweet Country as Philomac (this time
Read moreThe Sheep Detectives is a very sweet, charming, family friendly mix of whodunit and anthropomorphised (CGI) animal comedy. Evoking Babe, Knives Out and Toy Story it would be hard for this film to go wrong and it doesn’t. Set in an idealised version of the English countryside in the village of Denbrook, the film stars Hugh Jackman as benevolent sheep
Read moreThe intense, atmospheric and darkly comic psychological/ supernatural thriller Obsession falls into the ‘careful what you wish for’ film subgenre. Like a much more sinister and violent Twilight Zone episode, the film sees lovelorn Bear (Michael Johnston) desperate for romance with his work colleague Nikki (Inde Navarrette). While at a shop selling crystals and other faith healing knicknacks, Bear, on
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Don’t miss Southern FM’s new program, Scoutabout, featuring youth members of the Scout Association, across Bayside and Greater Melbourne. It’s on every second Saturday from midday to 2 PM. The first show is today (Saturday 23 May 2026).
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