Film review: ‘THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

The Fantastic Four has been the problem child of the Marvel cinema family. There have been two previous false starts with the 2005 film starring Chris Evans and Jessica Alba and the 2015 reboot starring Miles Teller and Kate Mara which began promisingly before weirdly falling apart half way through.  Now, in the wake of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s takeover

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Film review: ‘FRIENDSHIP’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

With a touch of the destructive disillusion of Falling Down and the unsettling oddness of Yorgos Lanthimos’ films, the very strange, dark and often very funny bromance cringe comedy Friendship is a bizarre take on the weird neighbour film. Comedian Tim Robinson (Saturday Night Live, Detroiters, I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson) plays the socially awkward, misfit office

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Meet Deb Brook from BCER

In this podcast from A Newsman and His Music (28 July 2025), Colin Tyrus is chatting with Deb Brook from Bayside Community Emergency Relief. BCER is one of Southern FM’s neighbours at Moorleigh Community Village in Bentleigh East. BCER is a grassroots charity that was formed in response to the January 2020 bushfires to coordinate contributions from the community and

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