WRITE NOW
WRITE NOW – tonight – our passionate reader Stewart is with us and we’ll be talking about his choice and also I’ve brought things to talk about, including the latest Monthly and International Women’s Day. Please join me, Gaytana
Read morePauly Fenech from Fat Pizza and Bogan Bible interview on Toast with Thommo
Hey guys, Alex T here from Toast with Thommo- Wednesdays 7-9am on Southern FM. Here’s my chat with Pauly Fenech, star of Pizza, Housos and Swift and Shift Couriers: Listen to Part B at the top of the page: Pauly is appearing in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival from 10-15 April 2018 The show is called Bogan Bible and
Read moreWhat’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 9th March 2018
It’s time once again for that great annual cinematic event, The Alliance Francaise French Film Festival and this week ‘Built For Speed’ speaks to Michel Richard, director of Alliance Francaise’ Melbourne branch about the wonderful range of films on offer this year. We also take a look at Jennifer Lawrence’s latest movie ‘Red Sparrow’ and give our assessment of this
Read moreFilm review: ‘THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING MISSOURI’, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri from In Bruges writer/ director Martin McDonagh is a southern-fried story of grief, vengeance and redemption that takes a seemingly familiar tale and adds layers, textures and plot twists for a potent, moving and at times shocking drama. In a guaranteed Oscar-buzz performance, Frances McDormand plays a grieving mother Mildred Hayes who’s daughter was brutally
Read moreFilm review: BLACK PANTHER, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
The seemingly endless parade of Marvel Comics cinema adaptations continues with Black Panther, a film that should elicit more than the average level of cinephile interest for a superhero film because it’s directed by Fruitvale Station’s Ryan Coogler. Set predominantly in Africa, Black Panther at first seems like a welcome departure from Marvel formula but it ultimately succumbs to the
Read moreFilm review: LADYBIRD, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
As an actress Great Gerwig has defined screwball quirkiness in a series of wryly amusing, at times poignant roles in films from directors such as partner Noah Baumbach. Now she takes the reins as both writer and director in the yes, very quirky but charming and often touching teen dramedy Ladybird. Like a younger incarnation of the director, Saoirse Ronin
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