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Celebrating 35 years of Southern FM
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
Read moreFilm review: ‘THE ROSES’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
The Roses is the sporadically funny but undercooked, shakily constructed and tonally uneven remake of the dark 1980’s marital discord comedy The War of the Roses that starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. This time, replacing Douglas and Turner are Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Coleman. Cumberbatch plays Theo Rose a renowned architect who after an astonishingly quick courtship marries chef
Read moreFilm review: ‘THE THREAD’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
French legal drama, The Thread, which is directed by and stars the revered Daniel Auteuil, is in many ways a familiar courtroom drama but Auteuil invests the story with a potent sense of intrigue and an affecting personal quality. Based on actual events, the film sees Auteuil play Jean Monier, a lawyer in the throes of self-doubt and disillusionment with
Read moreFilm review: ‘THE NAKED GUN’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Cop show parody, The Naked Gun (1988) was classic Zucker brothers humour with silly word play, send ups of Hollywood clichés and surreal sight gags revolving around the bumbling Captain Frank Drebin’s (Leslie Nielsen) complete obliviousness to reality and capacity for unintentional destruction. The quality of the Naked Gun movies declined across the sequels but some people, including producer Seth
Read moreFilm review: ‘FREAKIER FRIDAY’ Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Guess what folks, the big new cinema release for this week is a sequel. Freakier Friday is the follow up to the juvenile but fun 2003 body swap comedy Freaky Friday which starred Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, a mother and daughter whose consciousness swapped bodies so that each had to live the other’s life and learn about their
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