Thursday 22 May 2025 ROCK UP! with Ratts. Includes the interview with Mark “Ritcho” Ritchie, frontman for Melbourne hard rock groovers Stonetrip. 100% Australian music – Supporting Indie artists & OZ music legends. If you missed the show, never fear, you can listen back, or download here. ROCK UP! is on air 4-6 PM every Thursday on 88.3 Southern FM.
Read moreWRITE NOW -22/5/25 – The Stress Recovery Effect; then Painting with Stone. Please join me, Gaytana ALSO: let’s wear a mask to protect ourselves & others from COVID, Influenza, RSV, Whooping Cough & more. Looking out for each other – that’s what community does. G
Read moreBEST MEDICINE – 20/5/25 -The Stress Recovery Effect with Dr Nick Hall; later National Volunteering Week with Geoff Sharp. Please join me, Gaytana. ALSO: let’s wear a mask to protect ourselves & others from COVID, Influenza, RSV, Whooping Cough & more. Looking out for each other – that’s what community does. G
Read moreCinemagoers might have thought the Marvel movie onslaught had diminished, well guess what, it’s back! There’s the big-ticket Avengers Doomsday on the horizon and smaller films (by Marvel standards) popping up like Captain America: Brave New World and the latest offering, the oddly paced, uneven but intriguingly introspective Thunderbolts. Thunderbolts is a sequel of sorts to 2021’s disappointing Black Widow
Read moreWe’ve seen many variations on the vampire film, from sinister baldy Nosferatu to George Hamilton’s suspiciously suntanned disco dancing Dracula in Love at First Bite. Now, Ryan Coogler’s (Fruitvale Station, Black Panther) latest film, Sinners weaves the vampire into the supernatural mythology infusing early delta blues. This novel approach gives us a gory romp that’s also surprisingly soulful and almost
Read moreThe Salt Path is part of a slowly growing movie subgenre, the “redemption and self-discovery through a very long walk in the wilderness” film, think Wild with Reese Witherspoon and Australian film The Way, My Way with Bill Bennett. This style of film has some built in advantages as it comes with immediate personal drama, a self-improvement narrative and nice
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