After the orgasmic excesses of the ‘Built For Speed’ Best of 2016 spectacular, it’s time to see the year out with an eclectic selection of music including hard rocking Aussie classics, power pop legends, some more of the best of 2016 and a tribute to the great musicians who sadly left us this year. We’ll also review new cinema releases
Read moreNext Sunday, 1January, is the anniversary of Australia’s Federation Day. On this day in 1901 our nation was born. Our first Prime Minister and Governor General were sworn in a big ceremony in Sydney. Songs of Hope this Sunday 1Jan17 on 88.3 Southern FM will feature: the story of Australia’s Federation Day, 1 January 1901 at 8:45am. Our nation is
Read moreHow do you stop a film about an accountant being a snoozefest? How about making him a superhuman killing machine. That is the dubious premise behind Gavin O’Connor’s moderately exciting, often confusing and occasionally silly hitman thriller The Accountant. Ben Affleck stars as the eponymous number and skull cruncher Christian Wolff a savant maths genius whose autism saw him persecuted
Read moreThe raunch comedy is really just a more obscene and cynical update of the 80’s party animal comedy. For evidence look no further than Office Christmas Party, a messy, occasionally amusing but mostly predictable excuse for juvenile comedy that features the party animal movie staples: nerds, prostitutes, comical pimps, people going nuts on coke, a laid back sensible everyman central character and ultimately an
Read moreApparently determined to bring us a cinema incarnation of every character that has ever graced their pages, Marvel Comics now present Dr Strange. The good doctor is one of the lesser known Marvel heroes – at least for the average cinema goer – but as his powers are based on manipulation of the metaphysical world rather than brute strength, he’s
Read moreOne of New Zealand’s greatest bands of the 1960s was no doubt the Avengers, who scored five Top 10 hits from the mid to late sixties. Join Clive Cockburn the keyboardist & chief songwriter (& some vocals as well) of the (New Zealand) Avengers as he discusses those wild & crazeeee times that star musicians encountered in those hectic &
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