Conole February 16, 2020 Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan is back
Jack Ryan is back. John Krasinski from The Office brings the character to life in a new Amazon series, reports DAVID CONOLE.
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Conole February 16, 2020 Riley February 9, 2020 A Quiet Place — a frightening future
Emily Blunt stars in A Quiet Place, a low key but frightening post apocalyptic horror film, reports CHRIS RILEY.
Buys November 5, 2019 Ricciardo winds it off the clock
F1 driver Daniel Ricciardo got more than he bargained for when he took the very first Renault for a spin in his hometown Perth, reports BILL BUYS.
McKay September 23, 2019 Triple F1 world champion, canny engineer and car developer . . . and pants’ man
Is there much we don’t know about Jack Brabham? As it turns out . . . yes, quite a lot. It’s a bold claim by the authors of this hardcover biography of…
Jonesy May 5, 2019 Funnyman Charlie Chaplin had a darker, sinister side
The original, tug-at-the-heartstrings movie for anyone who has contemplated what it would mean to lose a child is The Kid — universally acclaimed as Chaplin’s finest work. Made in 1921, The…
Jonesy March 5, 2019 Buster broke all the rules of movie making
Buster Keaton was a giant of silent cinema. Many silent-era actors had a trademark look. For example: Harold Lloyd’s glasses, Charles Chaplin’s “tramp”, Fatty Arbuckle’s, er, girth. Buster Keaton’s look was his…
Buys February 3, 2019 Bright boys know how to light farts
THE well-worn cover of book at the opshop caught my eye: 211 Things a Bright Boy Can Do, it said, and it had typical 1950s UK boy magazine artwork: line drawings of…
Buys January 30, 2019 Champion a bright spark
CHAMPION spark plugs are among the world’s oldest and most popular. But they’re just a brand name — or so I thought. It turns out they were originally made by a Frenchman…
Buys December 14, 2018 Whoops! Where’s the White-Out?
I’D never heard of a car called the Delaunay-Belleville until I saw a colour picture of one in Collector Cars of Australia. It’s a book by photographer Ken Stepnell, just published by…
McKay November 16, 2018 Sabotage, a Mini and the 17,000km Marathon
A new book about the epic 10,000-mile London to Sydney Marathon opens with sensational claims that the race leader Lucien Bianchi’s Citroen was deliberately crashed into by a private motorist on the…