Today we take a walk off the beaten track in Wednesday’s book quotes to look at an authorised biography of the pioneer Australian adventurer Alby Mangels. The author Lynn Santer who I was in contact with in the early 2000s…
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Richmond Tigers win the AFL Premiership 2019 (Special Edition)
This post is to celebrate this weekend’s win of my beloved Richmond Tigers in the AFL premiership final. Australian Rules or Australian Football League (AFL) to be exact has a religious-like following in Melbourne. If I had a dollar for…
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Posted in Movies and TV, Reflections, Sport and Adventure
Posted in Movies and TV, Reflections, Sport and Adventure
24/9 – 30/9/19 Astronomy, IT (Chapter 2) and Mercury 7 Pre-Launch Facilities
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Common Ground Poem by River Dixon at The Stories in Between: If you could see What I see In those moments when You’re most…
Running on Empty – Sidney Lumet (Friday’s Finest)
Running on Empty (1988) is another under the radar movie which I picked up for pittance here in Bogota. I hadn’t seen it since my youth, but I was very fond of it. So you can imagine my surprise when…
Tokyo Story (1953) – Yasujirô Ozu (Friday’s Finest)
There are few other movies whose legacy to the history of cinema are as substantial as Tokyo Story. It tells the simple story of an aging couple who travel to Tokyo to visit their grown children. All of their children…
Once (2007) – John Carney (Friday’s Finest)
Once is an Irish romantic drama that had a very modest budget (and ‘approach’ if I might add) and found Oscars success at the 2008 awards season. I have great affection for this movie not only because I had just…
The Mosquito Coast – Peter Weir (1986)
Today on ‘Friday’s Finest’ we feature another compelling yet underrated Peter Weir film about the mysteries and forces of nature. The Mosquito Coast has just 6.6 on IMDB and 76% critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It was also a commercial…
Monos (2019) – Alejandro Landes (Colombian Entry for the Best International Feature Film – Oscars)
I normally reserve my movie reviews for Friday’s-Finest, but I hastily brought this one forward since I just saw Monos at the cinema and it has been selected as the Colombian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the…
Dogville (2003) – Lars Von Trier (Friday’s Finest)
This nearly 3 hour film which is set entirely on a sound stage and filmed like an intimate theatrical production would test just about anyone’s patience. I’m not going to lie. I bought the DVD brand new for about the…
20/8 – 26/8/19 Manson/Epstein, Tarantino, Springsteen & Humanity’s Future
Welcome back to Monday’s News on the March – ‘The week that was in my digital world’. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties…Tom O’Neill WordPress article from Badfinger at PowerPop: Manson must have had…
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