Why Him?, which stars Bryan Cranston, James Franco and Zoey Deutch, attempts to update the old-fashioned Father Knows Best-style comedy to the less wholesome digital generation. It also vaguely recalls Meet the Parents but while that film was genuinely funny and was able to cleverly balance quirky humour with familial warmth this movie subjects us to irritating characters and for
Read moreRed Dog was one of recent Australian cinema’s greatest success stories, an unassuming and charming family film that ended up being a box office hit. Red Dog proved (as we should have already known) that films about Australia and our national culture will find an audience. With that film’s success a sequel was inevitable. While unlikely to become as iconic
Read moreBuilt for Speed – 6th January 2017 QUEEN – Let me entertain you. SASKWATCH – I get lonely. (Aus) HALFWAY – Dropout. (Aus) TEETH AND TONGUE – Cupcake. (Aus) DAVID BOWIE – Moonage Daydream. STATUS QUO – Rockin’ all over the world. GEORGE MICHAEL – Shoot the dog. THE REPLACEMENTS – Little mascara. TOM WAITS – Hang down your head.
Read moreListen to Songs of Hope this Sunday 8Jan17 for the story of Mary Glowrey. Mary Glowrey was a Catholic Christian who spent her life tending the sick in India. She may well be made saint shortly. Her story goes to air at 8:45am and goes for 5 minutes. Another feature this Sunday is Mark Durie’s talk to open the new
Read moreKorean Director Park Chan-wook’s thriller The Handmaiden is a bizarre and intoxicating tale of crime, seduction, greed and much more. Set in the Japanese-occupied Korea of the 1920’s and divided into three parts, the film sees pickpocket Sookie (Kim Tae Ri) dispatched by her her Fagan-like boss Fujiwara (Ha Jung Woo) to the imposing mansion of wealthy weirdo Uncle Kouzuki
Read moreGimme Danger is Jim Jarmusch’s sensational documentary about the real godfathers of punk The Stooges. With Iggy pop’s distinctive voice infusing the film as a simultaneous interviewee and narrator, Gimme Danger reveals the band’s tumultuous birth in late 60’s Detroit, their flirtation with stardom in the early 70’s, their battles with critical and record company indifference and their descent into
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