Don’t keep the river secret
The Secret River
ABC, Sunday, 8.30pm
THIS two-part mini-series harks back to the golden days of epic Australian mini-series on television. Think Against the Wind, Timeless...
Anzac mystery in the spotlight
PAKENHAM theatre lovers are in for a treat with the imminent staging of the The Lost WWI Diary, starring Damian Callinan.
The play tells the...
Fails to take off
ALOHA
Written and directed by Cameron Crowe
Starring: Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdam, John Krasinski, Bill Murray, Alec Baldwin
Time:105 mins
Rated: PG
CAMERON Crowe’s Aloha is not...
The Rock steals show
By TANIA PHILLIPS
San Andreas
Rated: M
Running time: 114min
Starring: Dwayne “The Rock“ Johnson, Paul Giamatti, Alexandra Daddario
CHECK your brain in at the box office...
Seduced into a shotgun wedding
Married at First Sight, Channel 9, Monday 8.45pm, Tuesday 9.40pm
SERIOUS music, serious voice overs - relationship “experts”, the words “social experiment” this is a...
Brain training put to test
By TANIA PHILLIPS
Redesign My Brain2
ABC1, Thursday 8.30pm
IN series one of Redesign My Brain, ad man, television personality and Todd Sampson took on...
Spy like no other
By TANIA PHILLIPS
SPY (MA)
Starring: Melissa McCarthey, Jude Law.
MOST Spy movies you watch have a handsome man in his thirties and forties running...
Something creepy comes
Wayward Pines
Foxtel, FX, Thursday nights, 8.30pm
MATT Dillon - looking like he’s been to hell and back, then popped back again for a side visit...
The real deal – it’s Mad Maxine
Mad Max: Fury Road (MA)
Starring: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron
THE definition of irony - Mel Gibson is clearly madder than he’s ever been, but he...
Nightmare under the sun
Ramsay’s Costa Del Nightmares
Channel 7, Tuesdays, 9pm
GORDON Ramsay’s tried-and-true recipe for television success hasn’t changed a bit - only the venue has.
This time,...
Critics were wrong, wrong, wrong
Struggle Street
SBS, Wednesdays, 8.30pm
THE world jumped on SBS last week - and now the attackers have got egg on their faces.
Controversial SBS doco “Struggle...
Rib-tickling all the way
Pitch Perfect
Rated: M
Starring: Anna Kendricks and Rebel Wilson
FART joke humour, cheesy musical numbers and sequels aren’t often conducive to good film-making and yet,...
Applications for council capital grants to open
Stage 1 Project Proposal applications for the 2026/2027 Community Capital Works Grants (CCWG) program will open on Tuesday, 30 September 2025.
The CCWG program is...
