Hitch a ride: 1985 road trip memoir Podcast Pt 2
The road trip to Edi continues with the Million Dollar Quartet, John Denver, Wham! Mr. Mister and more.
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Take a journey back to 1985 and join father and son as we take a road trip to Edi in the beautiful King Valley in NE Victoria. You’ll have the back seat of a brand new Holden Camira all to yourself. I’ll be in the front seat playing the tunes and when we reach our destination, King Valley’s finest bush
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WRITE NOW – tonight 5/3/20 – I’ll talk with Fiona Lowe about her latest novel: Just an Ordinary Family (a great, topical read; plus International Women’s Day is coming -March 8; so I’ll talk about some noteworthy women. Please join me, Gaytana
Read moreFilm review: ‘COLOUR OUT OF SPACE’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Colour Out of Space crosses two film genres, the b-grade horror movie and the Nicolas Cage going nuts movie. Consequently, the film, while technically well-made, will have mostly cult interest and may leave general moviegoers scratching their noggins. Set in the present day but based on a 1927 short story by that pervasive sci-fi horror influence, author HP Lovecraft, Colour
Read moreFilm review: ‘A HIDDEN LIFE’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Terence Mallick’s films can be difficult beasts. Long, visually sumptuous and often involving meditations on the place of humans in the natural environment and the cosmos, they are wondrous and mesmerising for some, painfully dull and pretentious for others. His latest film, the three-hour World War Two drama, A Hidden Life will probably only serve to divide those camps further.
Read moreWhat’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 6th March 2020
This week on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at two new Australian films, the cinema adaptation of the Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries in ‘Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears’ and Leigh Whannell’s reimagining of HG Wells ‘The Invisible Man’. There’ll be many fine tunes with new tracks from Archers of Loaf and the Strokes, new Aussie indie
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