The Dalton Defense

As I write the new 007 movie SPECTRE is fast approaching and in the UK has been met with a mostly positive reception and I myself am looking forward to it despite my not being as enthusiastic about the other Daniel Craig Bond films up to this point (all of them have lacked a really strong and memorable villain.)

But as much as I like Craig and Sean Connery in the role of Bond I have a big soft spot for one other actor who took on the part: Timothy Dalton.

But why is that you say? He only lasted 2 movies and the 2nd one was met with a very mixed reception in 1989?

Well let me answer the ways:

- The first reason is that I feel he really did try to bring the series back down to Earth following the increasing silliness of the Roger Moore era where the jokes and the gadgets and the need to pretty much shag any woman who so much as had the tiniest of roles in his films which as his tenure went on got a bit much and by the time of 1985's A View to a Kill downright embarrassing.

But the other part of this equation was that Moore never felt comfortable doing the action scenes (Pierce Brosnan who succeeded Dalton in the role fared little better as his were slightly unconvincing as well even with Martin Campbell cracking the whip on Goldeneye) whereas Dalton threw himself into them and with Licence to Kill and the Living Daylights his physical presence and grace in those scenes became a real highlight.

- The second reason was the women, part of this I'm sure was due to the fear of the AIDS virus at the time but the women in both of his films aren't there just to be shagged or stripped or ignored there was a real attempt (at least in my eyes) to make them into characters we and Bond could come to care about in a romantic sense (The Living Daylights at times feels like a genuine love story) even if the actresses cast in those roles weren't quite up to the material handed to them.

- And the third is the plots, no longer would they outlandish plots about world domination no sir this was to go right back down to Earth similar to the tone and style of the early Connery films which I have to say are the films that people regards as the classics as they transcend just being a Bond film (Dalton himself said that this was his goal when taking on the part, to bring people back to believing this character, to bring his reality to it.)

His intentions (which were fully supported by Cubby Broccoli) are one thing, the execution of that became something else entirely as audiences were reluctant to warm to Dalton's take on the character but why was that well allow me to explain why.

- The first reason is that the public had become so use to Moore's take on 007 where he was a very jovial and almost kid friendly type of character that this harder edge which was at the core of Ian Fleming's James Bond books was very jarring at that time and as a result you could make the case that the movie going public for the most part from that time period simply weren't ready for it.

This sort of feeling is hard to explain or put into a column like this one because it's more of a feeling in the air a collective breath in the public to put it in those terms they know it and they follow that instinct for the most part.

- The second reason which follows on from the first was also the products that cinema goers in the late 80s were paying to see be it at Hoyts or Greater Union or Village or any number of Independent cinemas:

-- The Rambo films with Sylvester Stallone
-- The output from Steven Spielberg/Robert Zemeckis/John Hughes
-- The Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer films
-- The Arnold Schwarzenegger Action films
-- The Indiana Jones series with Harrison Ford (which was inspired by Spielberg's desire to direct a Bond film)

And so on and so on plus in the same year that the Living Daylights came out you had the first Lethal Weapon film released and in 1988 the year in between Dalton's 2 pictures as Bond you had the first Die Hard film blitz cinemas plus in 89 you had the three titans of Lethal Weapon 2, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and the first Batman film from Tim Burton.

And when you put all of that together you have a situation where the rivals of James Bond in terms of action pictures caught up to 007 and in some cases surpassed him and as a result Dalton's tenure came to an end which the early 90's legal fights with MGM helped to accelerate and Brosnan who was THE favorite to replace Roger when he retired finally got his chance to take on the role and audiences were more embracing of him.

But all was not lost for all of this helped I think to plant the seeds for Daniel Craig's tenure as Bond and this time audiences are now ready for that harder edge take on the character as it fit with the post 9/11 world as compared to the more optimistic period of the late 80s.

But also like the late 80s we could be seeing a repeat of the Bond rivals catching up and potentially surpassing him again I mean just this year alone we've had Matthew Vaughn's Kingsman: The Secret Service (which was inspired by the early films), Spy with Melissa McCarthy and Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation where Tom Cruise pretty much went one step short of playing chicken with the Grim Reaper and in those cases they're either taking on Bond or addressing some of his shortcomings particularly when it comes to the female characters which could become a very big problem for the Bond series going forward.

But coming back to Dalton (as well as bringing this column full circle) I can't help but wonder from time to time if audiences might just might have warmed to him more had A View to a Kill been his first film in the role instead of the Living Daylights, he would have had 3 films under his belt instead of 2 prior to the early 90s legal battles plus the action in that film might have had much more suspense and impact with Dalton and the hard edge give it your all approach he took to the action scenes in his films.

Plus having him there might have helped to ease the transition back towards a Connery/Fleming type character as it would have been juxtaposed with the high class world of horse racing as it was presented in that film not to mention breathing new life into the script as well as making the scenes with the women a lot more believable especially in terms of Ms Mayday (Her vs. Dalton's Bond would've been very cool) as compared to Moore but alas Sir Roger just simply did not know when to leave and as a result everything played out in the way it did.

And so that was my defense of Tim Dalton as James Bond and I hereby rest my case.

Film Review - Willow (1988)

Willow is produced by George Lucas and directed by Ron Howard and tells of the tale of the infant Elora who is foretold to one day grow up and overthrow the evil Queen Bavmorda (Jean Marsh) but the baby is safely hidden from her Empire and is found by the Elwyn farmer Willow (Warwick Davis) who is then sent on a quest to help the good people overthrow the evil Queen.

Hmmmmm, I got to be honest and say that this movie has not held up very well since its original release in 1988 (December 15th 1988 in Australian Cinemas to be precise) and the main reason I feel this way is that the story and the characters are not that interesting but before I delve into those points with more detail I want to talk about what I did like and that is the overall look of the film.

Visually the film looks great with real sets, locations and practical effects and makeup not once do you feel bored whilst just looking at the film in a purely visual sense and there is also a nice musical score by the late James Horner which helps to pump up some of the action scenes and Howard's direction in those battles is also nice.

But in the end as I pointed out the story and the characters are not interesting to watch nor do you feel any compelling reason to care about any of it and the blame for those failures falls on one man and one man alone: George Lucas despite having a screenwriter and a director to do his bidding this time.

And re-watching this film I felt that there is a very compelling case as to this movie being the planting of the seeds from which his Star Wars prequels grew:

- The chosen one prophecy
- The muddled storytelling
- The overreliance on battle sequences and special effects
- The bland and boring characters
- The signs of a great man losing his way

And like I said he had a screenwriter (Bob Dolman) and a director (Howard) this time around but in the end it makes no real difference to the overall quality of this movie and nor do I believe that it would have made any difference on the Prequels as Lucas would have most likely pulled rank on his hired director and screenwriter given he had all the power at the point in his career (there has to be a reason Lawrence Kasdan chose not to return for the Prequels.)

But coming back to this movie Willow himself is boring to watch and that was never the case with Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars movies (heck Mark Hamill has pretty much become a role model to an entire generation of film fans at this point), Mad Martigan is Indy 2.0, the Brownies are the Droids, the Queen is the Emperor, The Wizard in Willow's Village is Master Yoda (he even sounds like him) and General Kael is a poor man's Lord Darth Vader.

And wait there's more the Elwyn's are effectively the Ewoks from Return of the Jedi (if you confuse the 2 I don't blame you as I've done the same) and the use of Magic in this movie just doesn't have the impact that A) it ought to have had and B) doesn't compare with the use of the Force in the original Star Wars movies where it did feel like a crucial element of the story in that trilogy.

And again to elaborate on that comparison those 3 films (I know this review is running a little long so I'll be as quick as they can) whilst they had the groundbreaking visual effects and the advances in terms of sound design and editing (Jedi was edited on the EditDroid which was an early version of a digital editing system and the sound design was done with the TAP system which would later become the THX system) they also had characters that we came to love like family and a myth that we wanted to learn in and of ourselves in the Force.

Willow by comparison doesn't have any of those elements and as a result whilst it looks great the absence of the human heart and imaginative myth brings it down in a big way that includes all the reasons I stated above in this review, I cannot recommend this film for either a first watch or a revisit, 1 out of 5.

Film Review - Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (2014)

Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods is the precursor film to this year's Resurrection F which brought back Frieza but this story concerns Lord Beerus the God of Destruction who awakens from his slumber and learns of how Goku defeated Frieza so Beerus decides to fight him and once more the fate of the Earth is at stake.

Battle of Gods I'm sorry to say did very little for me as a film despite being the enormous DBZ fan I was as a teenager (I very nearly took up Martial Arts as a result of this) as well as really enjoying Resurrection F earlier this year but whereas that film succeeded because of Frieza coming back Beerus here seems more like a comic threat than a real one and I feel that the reason the Frieza storyline holds up the most is because you feel that pathos with Frieza.

Here like I mentioned above I never felt that sense that Beerus must be stopped like I do with Frieza and this is just another example I'm sorry to say of where Dragon Ball went after him just conjuring up more and more threats that began to make less and less sense story wise and were only written frankly to keep the book in circulation in Japan (and indeed this was the case as Akira Toryiama had originally wanted to end DBZ after the Frieza storyline.)

And so that was Battle of Gods which despite some nice animation just left me bored throughout, best to wait for Resurrection F as that was a much better film as it felt more action oriented and had a much better use of the characters as well as retaining the comedy of this film, 2 out of 5.

Film Review - Bridge of Spies (2015)

Bridge of Spies is directed by Steven Spielberg and has a script by the Coen Brothers and the story here takes place in 1957 during the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union and Insurance Lawyer James Donovan (Tom Hanks) is asked to defend Soviet Spy Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) but this case will not an easy one to solve.

Bridge of Spies is a serviceable thriller that is held together I think by its script and performances, Spielberg brings a very detailed eye to his direction this time and there isn't a lot of the overly sweet sentimentality that tends to plague a lot of his films after ET from 1982 became such a massive hit for him though he does at times let the film run a little too long.

The real stars here however are the Coens and what makes their script so interesting (it feels like a good novel put on screen) is that it combines the two strands of the career to date: The serious side with films like Blood Simple and the silly side which was shown with Raising Arizona and some scenes in this film are vintage Coens in terms of how they read and how they're performed.

As for the performances, Hanks is his usual likeable self and he anchors the film very well, Rylance is also good here as the suspected spy but those are the two main performances in the film and look the rest of it is fine (the scenes in Berlin are beautifully photographed by Januz Kaminski) but when I walked out of the cinema after the film ended it didn't really stick with me all that much.

And so that was Bridge of Spies, it has a good script and good performances but is on the whole a fairly middle of the road thriller, worth a matinee ticket if you get the chance, 3 out of 5.

Film Review - Dark Places (2015)

Dark Places is based off of the novel by Gillian Flynn (she also wrote Gone Girl) and Charlize Theron stars as Libby Day who saw her mother (Christina Hendricks) and her 2 sisters murdered one night in 1985, one day a man named Lyle (Nicholas Hoult) offers her a chance to redo the case right with a new investigation but some Dark Places of the past are never easy to explore when you live through them as a child.

Now I was very much looking forward to this film primarily because I really loved Gone Girl from last year which Flynn herself scripted and David Fincher directed plus it has a terrific cast with Theron, Hoult, Hendrinks, Chloe Moretz from Kick Ass and Tye Sheridan the new Scott Summers/Cyclops among others but with Gilles Paquet-Brenner on Script and Director duties this time could this film deliver the goods?

Sadly it did not and I have to say with a fairly heavy heart that this movie is a major disappointment possibly the biggest I've had all year which would see it beat out Avengers: Age of Ultron but why do I feel this way well there are 3 reasons why:

- The first is the script itself and frankly it's a mess, scenes don't play out in a way that feels like it's part of a 3 act narrative nor do they contain any sense of cohesion within the story that Brenner is trying to adapt into a film now I haven't read Flynn's book and maybe that was how it played out in the book but here as a written screenplay like I said it's a mess.

And really when you think back to Gone Girl it didn't have that problem it had some similarities to be sure but there Flynn and Fincher crafted a coherent narrative that you care about and the scenes flow logically into the next one but I guess you're bound to expect that when you have a master filmmaker and the original author on board instead of someone else doing those 2 jobs.

- The second reason is the characters themselves and all of them are boring to watch and you don't care about what's happening to them in the film, Libby just feels like another lost soul haunted by childhood trauma and unable to move on, Lyle feels like a weird man even if he has good intentions in his heart and soul and the Day family are the stereotypical low income family that just feels miserable all the time.

And again going back to Gone Girl (and here is where the comparisons between the 2 films will stop) the Dunne's Nick and Amy were compelling characters that had a drive, a purpose and a motivation to do what they do in that film whereas here that doesn't happen.

- And lastly the cast is pretty much wasted in their roles, I love Theron but here she just looks miserable on screen and was probably wishing she was playing Furiosa again, Sheridan and Hoult try their level best to make their limited characters work but this isn't their fault so I'll give them a pass, Moretz just mopes the entire time she's on screen and has that look on her face as if all she wants to do is cry and in the meantime Hendricks one of the most beautiful women in the world today is totally unbelievable as a down and out farm mother.

And so that was Dark Places, probably the biggest disappointment I've had all year at the movies, I wish I could recommend it I really do but instead just rewatch Gone Girl as that is a far better use of your time and your money, 1.5 out of 5.

Film Review - The Walk (2015)

The Walk is directed by Robert Zemeckis (Romancing the Stone, Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Forrest Gump among others) and is based off of the true story of French High Wire Walker Philippe Petit and his daring wire walk between the towers of the World Trade Centre in August 1974 (ironically the same time that Richard Nixon resigned as US President.)

Its sad that a film about a remarkable story by a remarkable man as well as being in the world he was living in and dreamt up a dream from an ordinary man this is a very disappointing movie to sit through.

And the big reason for this is due to the script which undercuts a lot of its tension with a near pointless narration by Joseph Gordon-Levitt who plays Philippe in the film and he does it so much that part of you starts to get bored with the film the more it rolls on towards its inevitable climax.

Speaking of that climax, the Walk itself between the Twin Towers is very well done but when it was over I have to say that it didn't stick in my mind it was just like "Well that was that, what's next" and given the importance of this to the film I left the cinema feeling very disappointed overall.

And finally as for the performances well the moment I heard JGL's French accent I just started laughing because it was every inch as cringe inducing as it was in the previews for the film, Charlotte Le Bon is fine here is the typical pixie mannered partner while Ben Kingsley is thankfully not as laughably bad as he was in Exodus Gods and Kings and is only in the film for a short time but he does okay with what he has here.

And so that was the Walk, a disappointing film about a remarkable event, best to rent the 2008 Oscar Winning doco Man on Wire instead and listen to the Dragon song Dreams of Ordinary Men which I did think of when I left the cinema along with my disappointment overall, 2 out of 5.

Blade Runner and the Martian: 2 Sides of the Same Future

Yesterday (well October the 10th 2015 to be technical) I finally got to see Ridley Scott's the Martian and it definitely did not disappoint as not only is it one of my very favorite films of the year but also I feel deserves to be on the same shelf as Ridley's dystopian Sci-Fi classic from 1982 Blade Runner with Harrison Ford.

But thinking about both of these films and why I feel that way has also made me think of this point: That these are 2 sides of the very same future we face here on Earth.

I know I know this sounds like a very silly comparison to make given how different the two films are in many ways but given that Sir Ridley directed both films they do have a similarity to them which I allude to above in terms of the 2 sides of the futuristic coin.

And this is why I would love to see them in a double bill one day (and its definitely one I intend to do when the Blu-Ray of the Martian comes out in 2016) as they represent Darkness and Light, Fantasy and Fact and Fear and Hope.

Please allow me to expand on each of those points:

- In Blade Runner we see a dark dystopian vision of the future, a vision that was quite common in the 1980s Sci-Fi film (see also Escape From New York, Mad Max 1 and 2 and the film version of 1984 amongst others) as we as a populace of humans once again sat on the brink of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union (this was also when Ronald Reagan was President.)

And Blade Runner played on this somewhat with its endless rain and grungy streets that were overpopulated with millions of people whilst others (most likely the well off in society) had a new life on the Off World Colonies free of the rain and filth of Earth, looking at the film now you could say this is the result of our industrial prowess scarring our natural environment and the endless rain being a result of this.

The Martian meanwhile presents a very optimistic vision of the future which paints a stark contrast to Blade Runner, the best and brightest are here on Earth and all pulling their resources together to get one of their own Home again both on Earth and in Outer Space and there seems to be the sense that if we can do THIS then imagine what we could do in terms of our environment, our need to produce and manufacture things and our sense of adventure, to boldly go where no man has gone before.

- Onto the second point now and Blade Runner is also very fantastical in terms of it has flying cars and replicant people as tangible objects inside its world that are very common to its inhabitants (Captain Bryant refers to them as just "skinjobs" in an early scene of the film) and you even see some of the people that helped form these replicants in terms of Mr Shaw and JF Sebastian.

The Martian meanwhile is not based in Science Fiction in a traditional sense but Science Fact, the scientists in the film use their various skills be it engineering or botany or calculations to solve the problem and to feed back into the positive elements of the future it presents in the film there's no bad person or sinister motives or race to get there first with any of it, everyone goes through the data debates it and comes to a common ground from which to work.

- And lastly Blade Runner in terms of the visual look Ridley created for the film (and here is where I will delve more into the technical filmmaking aesthetics of both pictures) is very dark and cold and blue, a lot of cool colors you could say make up a lot of the palette of the film look wise and it really works rarely do you see a bright or bold color in that world and if you do it feels very muted in terms of its impact.

The Martian meanwhile has a lot of Red's and White's and Magenta's and mainly drier looking colors for its palette, there are some cooler color's there (blue's and purple's) but like the drier color's in Blade Runner they're used to match the overall aesthetic of the film.

Look I know this is probably a silly column to do but it was something that I couldn't get out of my head so I wanted to do this, I hope people enjoyed it but one can never tell with these things I'm afraid.

Film Review - The Intern (2015)

The Intern was written and directed by Nancy Meyers and stars Robert De Niro as Ben, an older man who answers a job placement ad regarding senior interns at the online Fashion company About the Fit which is run by Jules Ostin (Anne Hathaway) who is pretty much doing 5 to 10 different things at once in her role, the two don't get along at first but that might change.

I had a good time at this movie I will say, it's a nice film, it's a sweet film but Meyers keeps a good hand on the whip and keeps the tone of it just right, De Niro is nice here and he seems to be having fun again doing a film there have been a few occasions where he has pretty much phoned it in and just wanted the cash but that doesn't seem to be the case here while Hathaway is very likeable here and for me I liked seeing her again.

Sadly however the film is too long at 2 hours and there are a couple of subplots in the film that could've easily been removed as they don't really add an awful lot to the film plus when they did come on it felt like a diversion from the main storyline of Jules and Ben but it was not as bad as in Trainwreck where I just wanted an editing machine to cut that film down to its 90 minutes and that's it.

And so that was the Intern, a nice film that I liked primarily because if you know people like Jules in real life then you will get what it is that they go through sometimes, 2 and a half out of 5.

Film Review - The Martian (2015)

The Martian is a new Sci-Fi film directed by Ridley Scott and scripted by Drew Goddard as well as being based off of the book by Andy Weir, the story here sees Mark Watley (Matt Damon) stranded on Mars after a dust storm but his crew (Jessica Chastain, Kate Mara, Sebastian Stan, Michael Pena and Aksel Hennie) take off and leave for home but Mark is still alive and must now Science/Engineer the Shit out of surviving on the Red Planet while NASA and his crew work to Bring Him Home.

I've been really looking forward to this film primarily because it's a new Science Fiction film and it feels like a fair while since we had one but the last couple (Jupiter Ascending, Gravity and Interstellar amongst others) plus Ridley has dropped the ball a bit with Prometheus and most certainly The Counselor and Exodus Gods and Kings so the chances of him coming back are remote.

But he has come back boys and girls and this film is just terrific and the reasons are numerous:

- The first is Goddard's script which is extremely good and it wastes no time getting its central story underway plus he balances science/engineering/botany with humour and hope but most important of all a beating human heart something that both Gravity and Interstellar both lacked in a big way (those films had the scientific aspects and the visuals but not the human element to make them stand out like this does.)

And this script has really energized Sir Ridley in a way we haven't seen from him probably since Gladiator back in 2000 and his direction here is very good, keeping a very tight rein on the ship even when it threatens to wobble a little bit towards the end due to its lengthy running time (141 minutes) it makes me wish that A) THIS had been his return to Sci-Fi instead of Prometheus and B) That he would assign Goddard ASAP to Paradise Lost his next Alien film.

- The second is the performances, Damon is so good here that he should be getting an Oscar nomination as he anchors this film effortlessly with his performance and he just totally gets the vibe of the character, even thinking about this has made me think yet again about how much I missed Mel Gibson in Mad Max: Fury Road earlier this year as his return to that iconic role would have really given that film the anchor it desperately needed.

But that is then and this is now and Damon is very nicely backed up by Chastain, Mara (making up for her turn in Fantastic Four and getting the better of her sister Rooney who only appeared in Pan this year which was awful), Pena, Stan as well as Jeff Daniels, Mackenzie Davis, Kristen Wiig, Sean Bean and Chiwetel Ejiofor and all of those people are very good also.

- And lastly the visuals and the music are also great whether it's the red wasteland of Mars or the very cool disco soundtrack peppered throughout the film but there's not much more to say other than those so I will leave that here.

And so that was the Martian, I think the best Sci-Fi film of the last 3 years and definitely one of my top films of the year, 4 and a half out of 5.

Film Review - Miss You Already (2015)

Miss You Already is directed by Catherine Hardwicke who is primarily known for directing the first Twilight film from 2008 and stars Toni Collette as Milly and Drew Barrymore as Jess, two women who have been lifelong friends until Milly finds out she has terminal cancer and her time with Jess and her family begins to run out.

Miss You Already is very much a classic chick flick weepie like Beaches from 1989 with Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey but I have to say I was very pleasantly surprised that I enjoyed it more than I thought I would and the main reason I feel this is the case is due to the chemistry between Barrymore and Collette, you really believe their friendship throughout the years and the turmoil and pressure its put under with Milly's cancer battle, Paddy Considine and Dominic Cooper are okay here but pretty much play the token husband roles.

And also the film is sad to watch and there were a fair few in my session wiping away tears as the film went on (even I felt moved by the film and I was the only male in my session) so take a box of tissues or a hanky to this one as you will probably need it.

And so that was Miss You Already, a well made weepie to see with some tissues and your best friend, 3 out of 5.

Film Review - Blinky Bill the Movie (2015)

Blinky Bill the Movie is the newest instalment of the character (played here by Ryan Kwanten) and is a new adventure not based off of the book series, the story here sees Blinky venturing out to the mythical Sea of White Dragons to find his long lost father (Richard Roxburgh) but this adventure could prove to be a tricky one to take.

I was a fan of the original Blinky Bill instalments from the 1990s first being the Yoram Gross film from 92 and later on the TV series which aired on the ABC so when I heard there was going to be a new film it was one that I immediately had to see just to know what it was like more than anything else.

And happily I was not disappointed as this was a fun animated adventure I thought, the first reason for this is the story itself it's not trying to repeat the Bart Simpson esque antics of the characters from the 90s and instead make him more of a likeable ol larrikin on the search for adventure, there is a fair amount of Australian lingo in the film and it adds to the charm of the piece.

The second reason is the performances, Kwanten throws his all into voicing Blinky and his enthusiasm easily caught on for me, I also liked Roxburgh in his role plus David Wenham, Barry Humphries, Barry Otto, Toni Collette and Rufus Sewell also pitch in good voice work here and you can tell they all had a good time working on this film.

Unfortunately I could also see why the film failed at the box office here in Australia and the reason I feel this has happened is that there is really no audience for this film, the people that know who Blinky is are people my age (children of the 90s essentially) and children today are so inundated with that sort of entertainment that they won't know who Blinky is, similar happened with the Tintin film from 2011, people my age knew of him but not kids today and as a result that film along with this one struggled to find an audience in cinemas.

And so that was Blinky Bill mate, a good fun family film (far too many animated productions these days are so emotionally heavy handed to the point of it feeling like blackmail or manipulation) with some good ol Dinki Di Aussie lingo and a sense of adventure, 3 out of 5.

On the Air Season 2 Episode 9 - The Age of the Dragon

Well folks here we are 2 new Radio episodes for your listening pleasure.

The films reviewed here are:

- Dragonball Z Resurrection F
- Straight Outta Compton
- A Walk in the Woods

- Oddball
- Shaun the Sheep
- The Age of Adaline

As always click on the streaming link in your browser or right click and save as to your Computer for those long trips on a Train or Bus or Plane or Even doing your Exercises.

The link to the first episode which covers the first 3 titles is here: http://blogs.abc.net.au/sa/2015/09/friday-flicks.html?site=southeastsa&program=south_east_mornings

And the link to the second episode which covers the second 3 group of titles is here: http://blogs.abc.net.au/sa/2015/10/friday-flicks-oddball-shawn-the-sheep-and-the-age-of-adeline.html?site=southeastsa&program=south_east_mornings