Film review: BACHELORETTE, from Built For Speed

Bridesmaids showed that films about women behaving badly at weddings could be critical and box office hits.  Bridesmaids was funny and in your face but also genuinely moving as it explored the way the supposedly joyous occasion of a wedding elicited people’s anxieties, disappointments and self-loathing.  Bachelorette tries to tap into the same world of ballsy female bonding and painful

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Radio Ga Ga’s Classic Aussie Album Tablesetters

Radio Ga Ga goes retro Aussie this week  as we take a look as well as have a listen to the songs that set the scene for some of the albums that sit comfortably in the top 50 of Australia’s greatest rock/pop albums.  The opening track of any album is a key track and so often sets the whole tone

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WRITE NOW

Write Now – tonight – 8/11 at 7 pm – Our Passionate Reader will be talking about TWO books: a rare, early, Australian autobiography by a woman and P.D. James’ Death Comes to Pemberley – her take on an extension of the much loved Pride & Prejudice.

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Russell Morris and Mark Copolov ‘live in the studio’ interview/Podcast – Purple Haze

Iconic Australian iconic singer & songwriter Russell Morris was  Mark Copolov’s special guest ‘live in the studio’ on Wednesday October 31st for Mark’s version of ‘Purple Haze’.  In this podcast, an edited version of that show,  Russell talks about his new cd ‘Sharkmouth’, a project inspired by Australian gangsters & some Aussie legends from the 1920/30s era. Russell wrote or

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