The Biggest Little Farm is a mostly uplifting but occasionally dispiriting documentary about people trying to live and run a farm in an environmentally sustainable way. In 2010, Molly and John Chester were living in a small apartment with their rescue dog Todd. When Todd’s barking and tendency to chew everything in sight earned the landlord’s displeasure and saw them
Read moreThe latest cinema incarnation of Dr Dolittle begins promisingly. Through an old school animated montage, we learn of the Victorian-era vet, Dr John Dolittle’s unique ability to talk to animals, his global quest to free them from suffering, his marriage to the love of his life, Lily and his retreat behind the walls of his animal sanctuary following her death.
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at two animal-related films, the latest cinema incarnation of the vet who talks to animals in ‘Dolittle’ and a documentary about the fight to maintain a fully organic environmentally friendly farm in ‘The biggest little farm’. There’ll be plenty of fine music with more favourites from 2019, new Aussie tracks
Read more“Scintillating session” says Scotty. We debated & disputed Top 20 Aussie Bands of all time, picked apart the local news, discussed some fund facts, introduced a new segment “Showerthoughts”, did a musical quiz on great duets and played songs from Grinspoon, Ratcat, You Am I, Deadstar, The Fauvres & AC/DC…
Read moreTwo decades ago, Guy Ritchie’s quirky, cartoonish but violent British gangster films such as Lock Stock and Two Smokin’ Barrels and Snatch were the cinema equivalent of Britpop to Tarantino’s grunge. Featuring a colourful rogues’ gallery of geezers, hard men and con artists tangled up in convoluted scams, Ritchie’s films were ridiculous froth but still fun. In recent years his
Read moreSam Mendes’ intense, gruelling World War One drama 1917 is, despite a few contrived moments, one of the most impressively confronting movies of the year. The film draws on classic war dramas such as Saving Private Ryan and Gallipoli as well as the ancient Greek legend of Pheidippides who ran from the town of Marathon to Athens during Greece’s war
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