The 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
Read moreThe 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 moreFrench 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
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