Tracks, starring Mia Wasikowska, dramatises Robyn Davidson’s best-selling book which chronicled her epic 1,700 kilometre journey from Alice Springs to Uluru and the Indian Ocean in 1977. Davidson trekked on foot with four camels carrying supplies and her dog Diggity as company. Reluctantly, she allowed awkward American National Geographic photographer Rick Smolan (Adam Driver) to meet up with her every
Read moreThe first Wolf Creek film was a landmark in Australian horror cinema, taking what could have been a mindless slasher or torture porn scenario and turning it into a tense, well-acted, superbly-shot, genuinely menacing slow-burn thriller; it did for slasher movies what Alien did for sci-fi horror. Based loosely on both the Ivan Milat and Bradley Murdoch cases, Wolf Creek
Read moreTune in tomorrow 16th March to Songs of Hope at 8:45 am to hear the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, executed by the nazis during world war 2. Segment prepared and presented by local pastor Chris Whiting. Segment play time is 6 minutes. Songs of Hope also features a sermon by local pastor Mark Durie who speaks on the topic “Jesus
Read moreNebraska is exactly the sort of film that generates instant Oscar buzz, a quirky yet solemn tale of crumbling dreams and redemption steeped in Americana and anchored by an idiosyncratic Becket-esque performance. Bruce Dern plays irascible scraggly-haired old drunk Woodrow Grant who, sadly, floats in a state between retirement and encroaching dementia. Mistakenly believing that a sweepstakes letter guarantees him
Read moreThere’s little doubt that writer/ director Scott Cooper is a fan of The Deer Hunter as he sets his latest film, Out Of The Furnace, in a Pennsylvania steel town, has major characters returning from a contentious war and has in Christian bale, a lead character who, like Robert De Niro in The Deer Hunter, is taciturn, resourceful, goatee-bearded and
Read moreJoin two! that’s right, not one but two!! special guests on this edition of The Purple Haze Archive: Mick Flinn & Donna Jones. Mick Flinn is best known for being a member of The Mixtures (‘The Pushbike Song’) as well as legendary 60s garage band, ‘The Wild Colonials‘. Donna Jones had the Number 1 smash hit ‘The Way You Do It‘ under the moniker, ‘Pussyfoot‘. Mick & Donna discuss their musical journey
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