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Film review: ‘YOU WON’T BE ALONE’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Macedonian-Australian writer/ director Goran Stolevski’s creepy, impressionistic and at times very unsettling, You Won’t Be Alone, mixes a grittily realistic depiction of early 19th Century European provincial life with supernatural horror. The film plays a little like a sinister fairy-tale with elements of Robert Eggers’ The Witch, the ‘wild girl from the forest’ sub-genre, Candide/Bad Boy Bubby-like tales of an

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Film review: ‘THE HUMANS’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

The grim family drama, The Humans offers some affecting insights into the human condition but in its attempt to capture the messiness of families, it feels more like a collection of idea fragments than a coherent story. The film sees the Blake family, father Erik (Richard Jenkins), mother Deidre (Jayne Houdyshell), Erik’s wheelchair-bound mother, Momo (June Squibb) who is suffering

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Film review: ‘SEE HOW THEY RUN’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Some might have deduced from the movie poster – which features individual shots of the large, sharply dressed ensemble cast – that quirky murder mystery comedy, See How They Run is a homage to Agatha Christie’s whodunnits. This very likeable, if slightly tepid film is actually based around Christie’s phenomenally long-running play The Mousetrap. Set in London in 1953, the

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Film review: ‘FALL’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Before it makes a bizarre misstep in its finale, Fall effectively mixes vertiginous Cliff-hanger-like ‘dangling over the edge’ thriller with a ‘young woman exorcising personal demons through physical ordeal’ drama reminiscent of the Reece Witherspoon film Wild and the Blake Lively film The Shallows. In the old ‘establish the emotional baggage’ sequence, our sensitive yet ballsy rock climbing heroine Becky (Grace

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SECA PANEL PODCAST #3 2022/2023

No cricket played but the SECA Panel show plowed on regardless but it was another very special episode with guest SECA Hall of Fame member Chris Gorrie who is on the precipice of senior game 400 for his beloved Washington Park. CG gave us his recollections on some of the wonderful era’s at the club and highlights of a stellar

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Ross Garnaut on Australia’s Opportunity to Lead the World on Climate Action

Ross Garnaut, Emeritus Professor of Economics and senior advisor on Climate Policy across a range of Federal and State Governments, talks to Craig Francis about his new book ‘The SuperPower Transformation’. Ross also discusses how he became involved in climate issues and his successes and challenges across the years.

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