Exploring America’s destructive uber capitalism has been a frequent movie topic since Wall Street and particularly in the last few years in the wake of the GFC with films like The Big Short. The Hummingbird Project explores a high-stakes, corporate gamble and even though the film revolves around an infrastructure project it’s a surprisingly compelling, if at times irritating corporate
Read moreThe Curse of The Weeping Woman comes from the conjuring stable which many will now know means a mix of moody supernatural horror and religious references. It also means a lottery in terms of quality as the two Conjuring films were some of the best horror flicks of the last 20 years while others in the franchise, such as The
Read moreThe Chaperone is a charming but underweight and oddly creaky story of self-discovery and the emergence of a star amid the rapidly changing world of 1920’s America. The chaperone of the title is Norma Carlisle (Downtown Abbey’s Elizabeth McGovern) a rather prim and proper woman from Kansas who surprisingly offers to chaperone 15-year-old Louise Brooks (Haley Lu Richardson) while she
Read moreTop End Wedding mixes a typically quirky and erratic feel-good Aussie rom-com with an occasionally moving story of personal and cultural discovery. The Sapphires, Redfern Now and recently Get Krackin’s Miranda Tapsell and Brian May from Bohemian Rhapsody, Gwilym Lee, star as a lawyer couple, Lauren and Ned, who are about to marry. Determined to have her family present, Lauren
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at new Aussie rom-com ‘Top End Wedding’ which stars Miranda Tapsell and Gwilym Lee. We’ll also take a look at one man’s unusual odyssey across Europe and Asia in ‘The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir’. As well as that we’ll let you know all about the ‘Revolutions: Records and Rebels’
Read moreBEST MEDICINE – today – Tourette’s, raising awareness; Disability, Sport & Recreation Awards. Please join me, Gaytana
Read more