The 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
Read moreMost films are aimed at particular demographics: Hollywood blockbusters pander to 14 year old boys and teen lit adaptations to adolescent females. Chilean film Gloria, is that rare commodity, a film aimed at women aged over 40. Falling somewhere between relationship drama, oddball comedy and self-empowerment parable, the film sees 50-something divorcee Gloria (Paulina Garcia) awkwardly attempting to re-enter the
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