Ian Dougherty, from the award winning SFNL media team, called in to speak with the Professor and the Gelding about the 2018 Southern Football Netball League season. He gives a sneak preview of some teams to watch. With four divisions now in the men’s competition and more teams in women’s football and netball, he says he can’t wait for the season to
Read moreThe Lara Croft: Tomb Raider video game was first brought to the cinema screen in the campy sexualised 2001 version starring Angelina Jolie. It was a ridiculous yet tolerable time-filler although hardly a film crying out for a remake. Yet a remake there is. Tomb Raider which is, in part, a Lara Croft origin story, tries to emulate the matinee
Read moreRed Sparrow, which comes from Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence, initially looks like a La Femme Nikita knock-off with a troubled young woman recruited by the government to train as a secret operative. Refreshingly, this modern cold war drama leans more toward the slow-burn intrigue of Jean le Carre than it does an action exploitation piece. Jennifer Lawrence leads an
Read moreThe amiable if at times flat Game Night is a little like David Fincher’s The Game done in the style of contemporary comedies like Horrible Bosses. It also falls into that cinematic sub-genre the Jason Bateman movie in which Bateman plays the put-upon, every-man, nice guy schlub forced into a dangerous situation that inevitably provides some necessary jolt to his
Read moreWRITE NOW -tonight – I’ll speak with Penny Harrison about a beautiful kids’ book: The Art Garden and talk with the Secretary of local group RAMF for an update on activities; and give notices and more. Please join me, Gaytana
Read moreThis Friday on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at two very different films: the remake of computer game adventure ‘Tomb Raider’ and the confronting documentary ‘Kangaroo: A Love Hate Story’. We’ll also have plenty of fine music with a focus on classic 70’s power pop as well as new Aussie tracks and indie rock from around the world.
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