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March 28, 2024

Cinema Review: Adrift

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Man charged over domestic violence and pursuit offences – Tweed Heads

A man has been charged following a pursuit near Tweed Heads on Monday.

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Terania blockade film to support Wallum cause

A film about Australia’s first environmental confrontation, which occured at Terania Creek near Nimbin, will screen on Friday, 22 March from 7pm at Brunswick Picture House as a fundraiser for the Save Wallum campaign. 

Belongil Beach nude bathing

I am very concerned about the proposed revocation of legal clothing-optional beach use at Tyagarah. When I was last in...

It’s a biggest little town festival! 

Supporters, performers, and volunteers gathered to launch the Mullum Laneways Festival 2024 last Friday. 

Seize the Decade report outlines benefits of renewables

The Climate Council says many more Australian families can directly benefit from rooftop solar and batteries under a new plan that spells out how we can electrify the nation and cut climate pollution this decade.

Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Why Being Seen is Beautiful

There is something profound about being seen. Being accepted and loved for exactly who you are. It’s life changing. It’s simple. It’s transformative. But some people don’t get to experience this. Nearly half of transgender Australians have attempted suicide.That data tells the very real impact of discrimination, stigma and lack of access to gender-affirming surgery. I write this as a woman who was born a woman, who identifies as a woman. I’ll admit, that even in that gender role, that fits within the societal binary, I’ve had my own challenges.

Bay FM community radio celebrates digital upgrade

Volunteers from Byron and across the Northern Rivers celebrated nearly $100,000 worth of new studio equipment at Bay FM Community Radio station on the weekend.

‘It’s amazing, isn’t it, what people are capable of when their life is on the line.’ My companion took the words out of my mouth as we were leaving the cinema after seeing this harrowing but inspiring true story (and which is not to say that either of us could possibly have coped in similar circumstances). It’s 1983, and California girl Tami Oldham (Shailene Woodley) arrives in Tahiti in her cut-down jeans and T, a backpack and a footloose attitude. She meets Richard (Sam Claflin), a tall dark and handsome English yachtsman, and in a trice they are an item, swimming and fondling in forest lagoons and kissing in the lapping waters of the tropical Pacific before agreeing to sail a boat back to San Diego for friends of Richard. Disaster strikes when they are caught up in a cyclone that leaves the vessel smashed but still afloat. This is when the story opens, before proceeding to be told through flashbacks – there is no other way to maintain interest in two people floating alone on the ocean without breaking up their ordeal with back story, old hat though it might be. Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur is no novice when dealing with the briny, having made The Sea (2002) and The Deep (2012), so you you know you can rely on him to not fall back on clichéd shots of a shark circling Tami’s slender legs at every opportunity – there is much more to it than that. The surprise – not least of all concerning Richard’s gangrenous black foot – doesn’t come until the end, when what was really going on during the forty-one days of the yacht floating powerless on the wine-dark sea is revealed. A drama that explores how we cope with psychological as well as physical and emotional stress (not unlike last year’s The Mercy, it is held together by Woodley’s sunburnt, salt-blasted grittiness and the cinematography of multiple Oscar winner Robert Richardson. Visually stunning, the storm at sea, if experienced a bit late, is terrifying.  


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