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This afternoon I went to the Dendy Cinema Coorparoo to see the Movie Heart of The Beast. James Belmont(Brad Pitt) who is an retired Army officer along with his dog Odin an combat one flew to an Alaskan lake to camp for a few nights where he meets Watkins(J K Simmons) who was an miner which they get friendly as well as James and Odin have PTSD after experiences in the war and both James and Odin fly out but then James suffers an heart attack which the plane crashes as Odin is ejected but survives and with James walk through to get back to the road which they encounters weather and other animals including an bear. It is FANTASTIC with FANTASTIC acting by Brad Pitt who was one of the producers as well, J.K Simmons and Anna Lambe and it was directed by David Ayer as well as along with Brad Pitt one of the other producers with Olivia Hamilton, Marty Bowen, Richard Raymond and Nick Satriano. It is one of Brad Pitt's best performances and the chemistry between Brad Pitt and the dog Odin ...

On May 17th 1980 American rock singer Joan Jett released her 1st solo album called Joan Jett after the break up of her band the Runaways as it was released independently but it was re-released on January 23rd 1981 on the Broadwalk Records after she signed up with them with the name change Bad Reputation which it went to number 51 in the USA, number 76 in Canada and number 45 in Australia and it had the 1 hit single Jezebel with Bad Reputation going to number 48 in the USA Mainstream Rock Airplay charts. It was produced by Kenny Laguna, Ritchie Cordell, Mark Dodson, Steve Jones and Paul Cook (2 ex members of the Sex Pistols) and it is now out on CD again. On the reissued edition it has the original tracks including her version of the Lesley Gore song You Don't Own Me, her version of the Isley Brothers song Shout and her version of the Sam The Sham and the Pharaohs 1965 hit song Wooly Bully and the bonus tracks on the CD includes her version of the Who song Call Me Lightning and th...

On April 26th 1975 iconic British rock band Pink Floyd performed at the Los Angeles Sports Arena at the time when they were coming from the Dark Side of the Moon stardom into the rock stadium act and it was recorded by an man named Mike (Mike The Mic)Millard who was known for recording shows with his recording equipment and it was never released until last year (2025) for the I Wish You Could Be Here boxset which it is out now on it's own. On the CD it has the songs mainly from the Dark Side of The Moon and the Wish You Could Be Here albums as well as 2 tracks that would later be on the 1977 album Animals and others well as among the backing musicans were Venetta Fields as an backing vocalist . It is FANTASTIC and BRILLIANT with FANTASTIC and BRILLIANT songs which holds up very well and the quality is just FANTASTIC which it is well worth lsitening too. The album went to number 46 in the UK, number 82 in the USA and number 43 in Australia. This is a must for Pink Floyd fans and I ...

This is the memoir of American actress Lisa Rinna and in the book she talks about life in California, losing her sister, moving to Oregon, her career as a model, landed the role of Billie Reed on the daytime soap Days of Our Lives, playing on Melrose Place, her marriage to actor Harry Hamill who was from the TV show LA Law, doing the Real Housewives of Hollywood as well as the behind the scenes, working with Christie Clark, Alison Sweeney, Heather Locklear and many others. It is Excellent, very impressive and very entertaining with impressive stories and it is well worth a read. Lisa has just done the show The Traitors as well as Running Point and the movie Stop That Train. This is a must for fans of Days Of Our Lives and Melrose Place and I live it 4 stars as it's in the shops now so please do yourselves an favour and BUY IT which you will be impressed and amazed.

This is the book about the iconic Australian music shows from the 60's and 70's Uptight and Happening 70/71/72 and in the book written by TV archivists Milton Hammon and Brett Leslie it talks about the shows history as well as the acts who appeared on it as well the episode guides of the shows which there is some that has no info on certain episodes as well as memories of the shows hosts Ross D Wyllie and Jeff Phillips as well as memories of the acts who appeared on the shows including Peter Robinson from the Strangers, Lily Brett who worked for Go Set the music magazine at the time, Bill Duff who worked for Festival Records and the company Lewis Young Productions and there is plenty of pictures of the acts of the time who appeared on the shows. It's AWESOME, BRILLIANT and SUPERB with AWESOME stuff as well as FANTASTIC info and it is well worth an read. Brett and Milton who have the books about other Australian music shows the Go Show and Kommotion and Countdown as well as...

This is from the Telegraph September 21st 1966 and this was the 4BK Top 40 charts with the Beatles at number 1 with the double sided Yellow Submarine with Ringo Starr on lead vocals and Eleanor Rigby with Paul McCartney on lead vocals which were from the Revolver album, the Easybeats at number 2 with the EP Easyfever, Ray Conniff at number 3 with Somewhere My Love and the Hollies at number 4 with the song written by future 10CC member Graham Gouldman as well as the first recording with bass player Bernie Calvert who replaced original bass player Eric Haydock Bus Stop. The New entries in the charts that week were the Lovin Spoonful at number 30 with Summer In The City, Donovan at number 32 with Sunshine Superman and The Kinks at number 33 with Sunny Afternoon and besides from the Easybeats the other Australian acts in the charts that week were Johnny Young and Kompany at number 11 with Step Back written by Stevie Wright and George Young from the Easybeats, Brisbane group the Purple Hea...