Police say crime has dropped in the general areas around Glen Eira, Bayside and Kingston. To find out what is working to make our suburbs safer, Clare Arthurs spoke to Leading Senior Constable Tania Stacey from the Proactive Policing Unit for the Southern Metro Region. They began by talking about what ‘proactive’ approaches look like in practice.
Read moreComedy thriller How To Make A Killing is a loose remake of the wonderfully misanthropic 1949 Alec Guinness classic Kind Hearts And Coronets. While pacy enough to be watchable throughout, this take on the tale of murderous ambition and vengeance starring Glen Powell feels tonally messy and never matches the wit or invention of its predecessor. Powell plays Becket Redfellow,
Read moreTheft is the main area of crime in Victoria, according to figures released by the Crime Statistics Agency. The Editor of the Bayside Neighbourhood Watch newsletter, Geoff Bransbury, talks with Clare Arthurs about crime and efforts to make Bayside safer. Links: https://www.crimestatistics.vic.gov.au/ For more local stories, click ‘Clare on Air’.
Read moreAs Victoria’s tougher bail laws take effect, significantly more offenders are being remanded in custody, according to the Member for Bentleigh Nick Staikos. Crime and punishment are the first item on the agenda in this podcast as Nick Staikos chats to Southern FM newsman Colin Tyrus. Nick Staikos is the Minister for Local Government and Minister for Consumer Affairs in
Read moreBeating Hearts sounds like the name of a self-important album from the 80’s and the vibrant but overlong and clichéd French romantic crime drama Beating Hearts (or L’amour Ouf) feels like the movie equivalent of such an album. The film traces the 12-year romance of delinquent thug Clothaire (played by François Civil as an adult and Malik Frikah as a
Read moreSleeping Dogs, which stars Russell Crowe, Karen Gillan and Martin Csokas, attempts to update the 1940’s film noir crime thriller to the present day. This is a tricky undertaking as that brooding style of film making was a very subtle art. While first-time director Adam Cooper manages – at least for a while – to build satisfying layers of mystery,
Read more