Danny Delahunty, Head of Programming and Deputy Creative Director for the 2024 Melbourne Fringe Festival, talks to Craig Francis about this year’s wide range of activities across Melbourne and suburbs. Events will encompass performing arts, music, dance, cabaret and much more, including this year’s ‘Cooked’ festivities in Federation Square combining Melbourne’s love of food and art.
Read moreIt’s been a while since we were subjected to a huge, lumbering, overly ambitious turkey of a film. Damien Chazelle’s Babylon looked to be heading that way but ended up as genuinely stylish and entertainingly bonkers. Francis Ford Coppola has stepped up to the plate, though, with his near unwatchable dystopian sci fi stinker Megalopolis. This was apparently a passion
Read moreFrench writer/ director Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance disturbingly updates Oscar Wilde’s The Picture Of Dorian Gray and adds a smattering of Showgirls for a gruesome body horror satire of Hollywood, the beauty industry and the damaging expectations placed on women. In an unsettlingly appropriate piece of casting, Demi Moore plays celebrity aerobics trainer Elisabeth Sparkle who hosts a successful Jane
Read moreWhile its plot and thickly layered Australiana are a little clichéd, Runt, from director John Sheedy, is still a very sweet, charming family film that represents another instalment in the ‘amazing animal’ film sub-genre. The title character (played by a dog named Squid) is a stray terrier who lives in the fictitious remote Australian town of Upson Downs. Having just
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On the first Friday of each month from 6-7 PM, Cindy Sullivan presents music and chat with a philosophical edge. This episode of ‘What The World Needs Now’ was broadcast on Southern FM on Friday 4th October 2024. In this episode, Cindy proposes that ‘what the world needs now’ is REBELS.
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Hello there, Hope you had a great week, and no better way to end than 2 hours of the usual hits, humour and history happy hour holds. Wow that is an aliteration! Please Enjoy JC
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