Film review: GONE GIRL, from Built For Speed

David Fincher is one of the finest filmmakers of recent times and his movies are now major events.  Not surprisingly his adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s best-selling 2012 novel Gone Girl has been one of the year’s mostly hotly anticipated movies.  While this film is not an immediate masterpiece like Seven, Zodiac, Fight Club and The Social Network, it is still

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Podcast – Mark Holden – Part 2 of 2 – the Holden Brothers Travelling Circus, ‘Live in the studio’ with Purple Haze host Mark Copolov (1 hour)

                    Mark Holden and Mark Copolov at 88.3 Southern FM 29/10/2014 In this podcast, Mark Holden, 70’s pop singing idol, composer, actor, media personality and barrister talks about his new project, the 3 cd & dvd set ‘The Holden Brothers Travelling Circus”. The two Mark’s are also joined by top Australian

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Film review: THE INFINITE MAN

Time travel is one of the most tantalising concepts in cinema.  The possibility of exploring uncharted worlds of the future, of re-living cherished moments from the past or even rectifying mistakes, holds an eternal fascination.  Unfortunately, very little of that fascination works its way into the quirky Australian time travel rom-com The Infinite Man.  This low budget film uses the

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Film review: PREDESTINATION, from Built For Speed

The genesis of Predestination seems to have been a competition to come up with the most brain-twisting time travel story imaginable. Never has a film folded in on itself quite like Predestination.  Based on the Robert Heinlein short story All You Zombies and touching on other time travel and sci-fi films such as Looper, Time Cop and Minority Report, Predestination

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RADIO GA GA’S SONGS INSPIRED BY BOOKS

Radio Ga Ga hits up the mysterious world of literature this Saturday morning. Well, it is pretty mysterious to those of us who limit our reading to comics or the back 4 pages of the Herald-Sun. Some will be easy to pick such as “1984” by David Bowie, “Wuthering Heights” by Kate Bush and “Romeo & Juliet” by Dire Straits

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Built For Speed, Playlist, Friday 18th April 2014

  Built For Speed – Playlist – Friday 18th April 2014 1.  DALLAS CRANE – Dirty Hearts. (Aus) 2.  THE CLOUDS – Here now. (Aus) 3.  THE PICTURES – See Ya home tonight.(Aus) 4.  JAKE BUGG- Lightning bolt. 5.  KELLEY STOLTZ – Are you my love. 6.  THE ARCTIC MONKEYS – She’s Thunderstorms. 7.  AC/DC – Thunderstruck. (Aus) 8.  AC/DC –

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