BEST MEDICINE – 20/5/25 -The Stress Recovery Effect with Dr Nick Hall; later National Volunteering Week with Geoff Sharp. Please join me, Gaytana. ALSO: let’s wear a mask to protect ourselves & others from COVID, Influenza, RSV, Whooping Cough & more. Looking out for each other – that’s what community does. G
Read moreThe Botanica Festival, the National Trust of Australia (Victoria)’s annual celebration of the natural environment, sustainability and gardening, was held on Sunday 18 May at the iconic Rippon Lea Estate. Held in partnership with City of Glen Eira Council, Botanica brings together locals, young families, and nature enthusiasts to one of Victoria’s most majestic heritage-listed sites for a lush celebration
Read moreCinemagoers might have thought the Marvel movie onslaught had diminished, well guess what, it’s back! There’s the big-ticket Avengers Doomsday on the horizon and smaller films (by Marvel standards) popping up like Captain America: Brave New World and the latest offering, the oddly paced, uneven but intriguingly introspective Thunderbolts. Thunderbolts is a sequel of sorts to 2021’s disappointing Black Widow
Read moreWe’ve seen many variations on the vampire film, from sinister baldy Nosferatu to George Hamilton’s suspiciously suntanned disco dancing Dracula in Love at First Bite. Now, Ryan Coogler’s (Fruitvale Station, Black Panther) latest film, Sinners weaves the vampire into the supernatural mythology infusing early delta blues. This novel approach gives us a gory romp that’s also surprisingly soulful and almost
Read moreThe Salt Path is part of a slowly growing movie subgenre, the “redemption and self-discovery through a very long walk in the wilderness” film, think Wild with Reese Witherspoon and Australian film The Way, My Way with Bill Bennett. This style of film has some built in advantages as it comes with immediate personal drama, a self-improvement narrative and nice
Read moreAnyone who has aspirations of working in a commercial kitchen should not see La Cocina, it will kill those dreams stone dead. While well-acted, at times insightfully written and artfully shot, this extremely bitter pill of a film makes for a fairly miserable night at the movies. La Cocina is set in the kitchen of a fictitious New York restaurant
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