On-screen text at the beginning of Sicario: Day of the Soldado, the sequel to the much lauded 2015 drug-crime drama Sicario, delivers what seems to be a disturbingly ‘conservative’ message about people smuggling across the Mexican-US border, much like the sort of statement we might expect from a certain oddly-coiffured world leader. It appears that this film may have shelved
Read moreWRITE NOW – tonight – Vikki Petraitis will talk about two of her true crime books and later Liz Byrski will talk about her latest novel A Month of Sundays. Please join me, Gaytana
Read moreThis Friday ‘Built For Speed’ reviews the hotly-anticipated sequel to 2015’s ‘Sicario’ with ‘Sicario: Day of the Soldado’. We also take a look at gothic romance and literary icons with ‘Mary Shelley’. There’s many fines tunes with new Aussie tracks, classics featuring legendary guitarists and drummers and an assortment of indie rock from across the decades. Don’t forget our regular preview
Read moreThere’s an important scene early in The Leisure Seeker in which retired English teacher John (Donald Sutherland) regales a perplexed fast food waitress about the simple poetic beauty of Ernest Hemmingway’s prose. The idea is that poetry can be found in the apparent banality of everyday events. While this middling meditation on ageing doesn’t fully capitalise on the potential of
Read moreAfter three Jurassic Park movies and one Jurassic World film we pretty much know what to expect: ravenous CGI dinosaurs chasing and chomping on humans. The fifth instalment in what is now a quarter century long franchise adds a couple of new wrinkles but mostly adheres to formula for an underwhelming movie experience. In Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom the dinosaur-infested
Read moreBEST MEDICINE – today – Physiotherapy for incontinence and later Professor Philip Mitchell will talk with me about The Australian Mental Health Prize. Please join me, Gaytana
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