WRITE NOW
WRITE NOW – tonight – Vikki Petraitis will talk about two of her true crime books and later Liz Byrski will talk about her latest novel A Month of Sundays. Please join me, Gaytana
Read moreWhat’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 6th July 2018
This Friday ‘Built For Speed’ reviews the hotly-anticipated sequel to 2015’s ‘Sicario’ with ‘Sicario: Day of the Soldado’. We also take a look at gothic romance and literary icons with ‘Mary Shelley’. There’s many fines tunes with new Aussie tracks, classics featuring legendary guitarists and drummers and an assortment of indie rock from across the decades. Don’t forget our regular preview
Read moreFilm review: ‘THE LEISURE SEEKER’, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
There’s an important scene early in The Leisure Seeker in which retired English teacher John (Donald Sutherland) regales a perplexed fast food waitress about the simple poetic beauty of Ernest Hemmingway’s prose. The idea is that poetry can be found in the apparent banality of everyday events. While this middling meditation on ageing doesn’t fully capitalise on the potential of
Read moreFilm review: ‘JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM’, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
After three Jurassic Park movies and one Jurassic World film we pretty much know what to expect: ravenous CGI dinosaurs chasing and chomping on humans. The fifth instalment in what is now a quarter century long franchise adds a couple of new wrinkles but mostly adheres to formula for an underwhelming movie experience. In Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom the dinosaur-infested
Read moreBEST MEDICINE
BEST MEDICINE – today – Physiotherapy for incontinence and later Professor Philip Mitchell will talk with me about The Australian Mental Health Prize. Please join me, Gaytana
Read moreWhat’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 29th June 2018
This week on ‘Built For Speed’ we speak to Greg King from 3WBC’s ‘Movies at Dusk’ and ‘Breakfast with the Motley Crew’ about his recent adventures in New York where he saw Bruce Springsteen’s acclaimed acoustic show at The Walter Kerr Theatre, ‘Springsteen on Broadway’. We’ll also take a look at two new-release Aussie movies, Cohen-esque thriller ‘Brother’s Nest’ and
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