Built for Speed – 17th February 2017 THE ROLLING STONES – Blue and lonesome. FRONT END LOADER – Pulse. (Aus) H-BLOCK 101 – Kokakolonization. (Aus) STARKY – City Prison Doors. (Aus) PIXIES- Hey. RYAN ADAMS – To be young. BLONDIE – Union City Blues. AVI BUFFALO – Remember the last time. MIKAL CRONIN – I’m done running from you. CALEXICO
Read moreThis Friday ‘Built For Speed’ speaks to Philippe Platel, Artistic Director of one of Melbourne’s finest annual cultural events the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival which runs from 8th to 30th March. We’ll also take a look at the long-awaited sequel to ‘Trainspotting’, the oddly-named ‘T2: Trainspotting’ and Martin Scorsese’s religious epic ‘Silence’. There’s plenty of fine music with indie
Read moreWRITE NOW – tonight – Lesley Truffle about her work and the upcoming Sisters-in Crime event she’s involved in; then a review of Adrian McKinty’s latest(Sean Duffy) novel and later I’ll talk with Lyn White the creator and editor of the Through My Eyes series of young adult novels.Please join me, Gaytana
Read moreListen to Songs of Hope next Sunday 5Mar17 at 8:45am to hear the story of James Young Simpson, who as a Scottish Christian caring for others, developed anaesthetics to help with severe pain and medical operations. At 7:30am we will have a sermon by local Melbourne minister Rob Buckingham of Bayside Church. His talk is entitled “Going the Jesus way”.
Read moreIntertwining a civil rights story with the early 1960’s space race, Hidden Figures might at first glance seem like a hybrid of The Help and Apollo 13 and while it’s at times formulaic and set within a sunny 1960s milieu worthy of Ron Howard, it contains an important and uplifting story. Based on actual events, Hidden Figures traces the careers of
Read moreGerman writer/ director Maren Ade’s long and very quirky tragi-comedy Toni Erdmann carefully negotiates the line between pathos and farce for one of the more unusual but affecting films so far this year. The title character (Peter Simonischek) is a hulking dishevelled man in his 60’s whose life appears to revolve around playing weird Andy Kaufman-style practical jokes on people.
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