The original Magnificent Seven is a Hollywood classic which transposed Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai to the wild west of America; Seven Samurai having itself been inspired by Hollywood westerns. Now director Anton Fuqua has remade The Magnificent Seven with a cast that includes Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Haley Bennett and Peter Sarsgaard. Given the dire record of classic
Read moreSet in the 1920’s JK Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a prequel (of sorts) to the phenomenally successful Harry Potter films. Prequels to blockbuster film franchises have a dubious history, the horrible Star Wars prequels and erratic Hobbit films being an example. One of the problems is that the prequels are tantalisingly close but just out
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we review two films that couldn’t be more different, the new JK Rowling adventure Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Ken Loach’s confronting social realist drama I, Daniel Blake. There’s plenty of fine tunes with more favourite tracks of the millennium, new releases from Australia and overseas including the latest from Methyl
Read moreHarry Coulson is a big man with a big talent. Intrigued? Take a listen to this podcast of his November 13th performance on the 88.3 LIVE SUNDAY SESSIONS. Harry and the lads turned it on for us for an hour in the studio and punched out a rich tapestry of tunes and were awarded the Nobel prize for interpretation of
Read moreSongs of Hope this Sunday 20Nov16 on 88.3 Southern FM will feature: a talk by Pastor Rob Buckingham of Bayside Church in Cheltenham, here in Melbourne entitled “Meandering with purpose” at 7:30am. the story of Australian Graeme Clark who invented the “bionic ear” at 8:45am. plus there will be the usual great hymns and Christian music. Here are the details
Read moreJoin host Mark Naumann with special guest LIVE – Clifford Hoad from classic Oz rock band ‘Kings Of The Sun’. Cliff has released the hottest rock album this year ‘Razed On Rock’ and it is chock-a-block full of power rock. Tune in to 88.3FM Bayside Melbourne 8pm (AEDT) this Wednesday night 16/11/16 or stream it LIVE from www.southernfm.com.au Purple Haze is
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