A look at Red Sparrow (MA)
Jennifer Lawrence rates as one of Hollywood’s genuine stars although in her latest film she takes a bit of a beating.
This comes in the form of psychological and mental bullying at spy school and out in the field in Budapest and later back home in Moscow – hard-core torture and thrashings. Continue reading
The annual Laneway music festival that tours all major Australian cities is a great way to catch up with some of the staunch old gentlemen of rock’n roll. This year promised a stellar lineup from go to whoa. Continue reading
Elie Brush puts an end to a Fremantle attack.
Giving great effort is good. Great even. The Fremantle AFLW team gives that but there’s something missing. Continue reading
A look at Sweet Country (MA 15+)
For a filmgoer who lists westerns as one of his favourite genres the lure of an Australian western set in the scrublands west of Alice Springs was irresistible. Continue reading
As Perth sweltered in the after effects of tropical cyclone Kelvin on the sort of night made for serial killer Eric Edgar Cook a cannibal flew into town. Continue reading
AFLW Fremantle vs Melbourne, Fremantle Oval, 18 February 2018.
AFLW stars Dana Hooker & Daisy Pearce. Photos by Les Everett.
A look at Darkest Hour (PG)
Winston Churchill might have been under extreme duress during May 1940 yet all that stress caused by constant German air raids and the mooted evacuation of Dunkirk never detracted from his brilliant speeches. Continue reading
A look at I, Tonya (MA 15+)
Every four years those of us with a taste for sport tune in to the appointed commercial TV channel for the coverage of the Winter Olympics. Continue reading
Shaun Marsh trudges off Perth Stadium. It’s because, according to the ground announcer HE’S OUT!!!!
It felt like I was in a team meeting but I was just on the couch as usual. Perth Scorchers captain Adam Voges was being interviewed a few days before the historic Big Bash semi final at Perth Stadium. He’s learned stuff, he said, from two trial matches and the One Day International played at the new venue – in short the team batting first had won comfortably each time. The Scorchers tend to like bowling first but they’d obviously need to reconsider. Continue reading
A look at The Post (PG)
A whole range of United States presidents sat on the hard facts about the Vietnam War from the time of John F Kennedy and up to the period of Richard Nixon. Continue reading
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