Good piece on the two racing doco's on ABC including a couple of short vids. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-06/why-brock-and-gardner-are-still-australian-track-gladiators/12847518
One of the last of the 'old school' journo's.. https://www.9news.com.au/national/gerald-stone-dead-father-of-60-minutes-in-australia/062859ea-8ecc-46d6-b72e-4dd4c63df405
Are there any recent movies that are actually worth watching? I’m losing count of the number of times I settle in to watch something new and after a little while I realise that, well, it’s just rubbish. Again, tonight, I ended up watching something off the good old hard drive after finding myself shaking my head at how lame a “promising” new movie seems. And I’m not even old, FFS! Everything these days is either woke BS with a ****ing “message”, or it’s a CGI laden snooze-fest. (When will Hollywood realise that CGI is totally unconvincing, no matter how well it’s done). Where is F1 when you need it?
Forget Hollywood - Brit, Euro, Aus etc all likely to have something that is more than just guns and superheros.
the best film I saw last year was "Never Look Away" by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. German with subtitles, but easy to follow. Incredibly moving, the journey from Nazi-ism to communism in Dresden and later East Berlin, following a character based on German artist Gerhard Richter. Watch his previous film, "The Lives of Others" first if possible. You'll find it on SBS On Demand. How the Stasi operated in East Germany. The beautiful thing about both movies is their depiction of the awful dystopia of socialist countries, the very "utopia" that the woke activists want to achieve.
i heard a great comment the other day re the current ALP in Australia. "tax the wealthy and keep the poor ..poor"
Well they certainly don't represent the poor any more. They've become the party of the rich inner city / suburban woke brigade. Joel Fitzgibbon is spot on. Ironic that now the Libs are more the party of the worker.
You know why the Conservative side of politics is struggling these days? Because they push this ridiculous idea that any one left of the extreme right is pushing for a socialist dictatorship - no one in the world is doing that (outside of 3rd world, and I’m struggling even to think of a contemporary in that field) and most ‘thinking’ voters recognise the hyperbole for what it is. ‘Social’ policies (such as Medicare) are NOT socialism. Rock up to your next LNP meeting and propose wiping out Medicare and see how far you get... And don’t get me started on the ‘social policies’ the right have brought in which are just giant handouts to those who least need them.
As a single person what wonderful handouts do you get? Little! On the other hand ...bulk handouts to families...The single middle income earner is taxed both direct and indirect by both Feds and States with few taxable claims.
Then the greens fight for the same voter inner city ,educated at some flunk Uni ,crap degree earning peanut money.
Watched “The Lives of Others” the other night via SBS on demand - excellent. Strangely familiar, as though I’d seen it before. Now downloading “Never Look Away” via Foxtel, surprisingly. Thanks, Ian.
Easy afternoon before I go to well known Melbourne Ferrari owners Christmas party ............Voted twice the greatest British movie ever enjoyable watch "The Third Man"........
