Keeping the Christmas spirit
The Man Who Invented Christmas
PG
Main Cast: Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce, Miriam Margolyes
Running Time: 104 MIN
Whimsical, slightly melodramatic and Dickensian, The Man Who...
Birth of an Australian sound
Friday On My Mind,
Sunday, ABCTV, 8.40pm
In a world where there was no Australian sound, just bands re-hashing music from the UK and the USA,...
Horror amid the boredom
Keeping Australia Safe
ABC, Tuesdays, 8.30pm
If there’s anything surprising about Keeping Australia safe, then it’s what a boring job it is.
I was keen to have...
Story does justice to superheroes
JUSTICE LEAGUE
Rated: M
Consumer Advice: Action violence
Main Cast: Gal Gadot, Jason Mamoa, Ray Fisher, Ezra Miller
Running Time: 120 MIN
In a year when the big...
Weekend What’s On
Red Cross Fund-raiser
The Red Cross Pakenham Branch is hosting a barbecue fund-raiser at Bunnings Pakenham.
• Saturday 18 November
Fiddlers Green Market Day
Fiddlers Green...
Shut case to be reopened
Doctor Blake Mysteries, ABC iview.
After five years, five series and 37 episodes the ABC’s Doctor Blake Mysteries finally finished up at the weekend -...
Festival of healthy music
By Bonny Burrows
Kooweerup Regional Health Services’ annual Music on the Grass is back and, best of all, it’s free.
The festival, held in conjunction with...
Weekend What’s On
Protest against quarry
Mt Cannibal and District Preservation Group is holding a protest walk against the proposed Bunyip North quarry.
Mt Cannibal Reserve, Garfield North Road,...
Kids hit the ground running
By Effie Caloutas
Belgrave’s Cameo Theatre is set to host a local film release with a special showing of Comet Kids on Saturday 18 November.
The...
When disorder is the norm
By Tania Phillips
THE Good Doctor
Channel 7, 8.35pm Tuesday and Thursday
Having autism and savantism (we’d probably just call it Aspergers in this country) is trendy...
Weekend What’s On
Fun at parkrun
Pakenham parkrun is a free weekly timed 5km event for runners of all standards, which takes place every Saturday. The group encourages...
Home is where the house is
Rosehaven, ABCTV, Wednesday, 9.05pm
The little program that could - Rosehaven returned to the ABC (and iview) this past week with eight new episodes.
Starring...
All things fleece at Pakenham Woolcraft Day
It was all things fleece and craft on the weekend as people gathered to spin their yarns in more ways than one at the...
