Sunday Lunch – 10 December
If you missed out on your Sunday Lunch on 10 December 2023, and need a serve of that eclectic musical mix, click on “Read More” below to hear it
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Top Five Christmas Movies
Scott Dawes of the Robert Connor Dawes Foundation talks to Craig Francis about his top 5 Christmas movies (each paired with a recommended beverage!) in the final outing for Friday on My Mind for 2023.
Read moreFilm review: ‘Bromley: Light After Dark’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
I had never heard of Australian artist David Bromley but apparently he’s hugely successful and according to the documentary, Bromley: Light After Dark, his work is ubiquitous in upper middle-class homes. This mostly uplifting documentary examines his work and the aspects of his life, like family, that he cherishes and that have sustained him in his battles with mental illness.
Read moreFilm review: ‘Saltburn’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Saltburn, is writer/director Emerald Fennell’s follow-up to her striking but erratic feature debut, Promising Young Woman. More stylistically assured than that film, Saltburn is an enjoyably strange, dark satire of class consciousness, poisonous wealth and social exclusion so full of indelible scenes that we can mostly overlook some slightly shaky storytelling. Barry Keoghan, who was unforgettable in the Banshees of
Read moreAlli Harding is back with South of the River tomorrow at 2pm
Brenda Lee is on top of the US charts with her song ‘Rockin’ around the Christmas Tree’ – a mere 65 years after it was first released. And the classic ‘Fairytale of New York’ is flying up the UK charts in tribute to The Pogues’ lead singer Shane MacGowan, who died last month. Alli will play those and a
Read moreFilm review: ‘The Hunger Games: The ballad of songbirds and snakes’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
The dystopian sci-fi film series, The Hunger Games was hugely successful and a cultural touchstone for many young cinema goers (but not so much this reviewer). Through those films, Jennifer Lawrence established herself as a major star playing heroine, Katniss Everdeen who, in a post-apocalyptic future, competed in the eponymous televised teen gladiator death matches and battled the fictional nation
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