Paul Thomas Anderson is rightly considered one of the most important directors of the last few decades and his film are regarded as event cinema. Still, his last couple of movies, the nostalgic Liquorice Pizza and oddball fashion world drama Phantom Thread, had mixed reactions. His latest film, the exhilaratingly bonkers activist action/drama/comedy One Battle After Another, is his most
Read moreIt’s been a big year for Stephen King adaptations about people in deadly foot races. Earlier, we had the impressively gruelling and poignant The Long Walk and now comes The Running Man, not only a King adaptation but a remake of the 1987 Arnie film. The original film was an entertainingly silly piece of glossy 80’s sci fi action that
Read moreThe Gen X franchise regeneration continues with a surprisingly entertaining addition to the sci fi action franchise Predator in Predator: Badlands. As with the Terminator movies, what was once the otherworldly villain has now become the hero as the Predator known as Dek (New Zealand actor Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi), who is a member of the a Yautja people, is at the
Read moreThe Now You See Me franchise, which started in 2013, has proven an occasionally inventive but often annoying crime caper series that uses stage magic as device for introducing visual gags and action sequences and as an excuse for improbable plot points. Based largely on the franchise’s ability to lure likeable stars such as Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Morgan Freeman
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88.3 Southern FM will celebrate 35 years of continuous broadcasting on 5 November 2025. Southern Community Broadcasters Inc. was granted its community radio broadcasting licence on 26 March 1990 and started broadcasting full time on 5 November 1990. Interested in the early days of Southern FM? Read all about it here, thanks to long-serving member, David Andrew. David is part of
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