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newspaper article		As captivating on screen as on stage in The Age (23/08/2018) p.33 Author: Paul Byrnes PhysDes: Clippings File Article Summary: FILM JIMMY BARNES: WORKING CLASS BOY (M) Selected cinemas (100 minutes) Reviewed by PAUL BYRNES When Cold Chisel became one of the biggest bands in Australia around 1980, Jimmy Barnes' voice already sounded like a chainsaw. There had never been an Australian singer with such power, emotion and aggression on stage - not even the great Johnny O'Keefe or Bon Scott. More info
newspaper article		The classic movie in Sunday Age [Inside Out] (25/3/2018) p.10 Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) Author: Paul Byrnes PhysDes: Clippings File_Article Subject: PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975) Summary: Conventional review of the classic More info
newspaper article		A risk yields riches in Sydney Morning Herald [Spectrum] (21/04/2018) Author: Paul Byrnes PhysDes: Clippings File Article Summary: GURRUMUL Rated PG, 96 minutes J An opening title tells us that Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu approved this film three days before he died in July 2017. More info
newspaper article		Story of music, passion and pain told with feeling in The Age (28/09/2017) p.26 Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; GO - BETWEENS , THE : RIGHT HERE (AT, Kriv Stenders, 2017) Author: Paul Byrnes PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: GO-BETWEENS, THE: RIGHT HERE (AT, Kriv Stenders, 2017) Summary: FILM THE GO-BETWEENS: RIGHT HERE (M) Selected cinemas (99 minutes) Reviewed by Paul Byrnes The muso bio-doco is having a renaissance in Australia - at least if you loved punk. We've had Autoluminescent (2011) about the late Rowland S Howard and the rise of punk in Melbourne; Cosmic Psychos (2013) about country punks who drank a lot of beer just north of Melbourne; 20,000 Days (2014) about Nick Cave, the punk who came from Melbourne and this year, Descent into the Maelstrom, about Radio Birdman, who were sort of punks (but not really) from Sydney. More info
newspaper article		Young Aussie delivers flawless performance in The Age (14/09/2017) p.30 Author: Paul Byrnes PhysDes: Clippings File Article Summary: FILM PATTI CAKE$ J (M) Selected cinemas (109 minutes) Reviewed by Paul Byrnes So there's this Patti from Jersey / Her mama drinkin' like a banshee / Her granny in a stupor, Patti gotta be a rap star, and the boys just see a fat star - so they treat her like she cattle / Even tho' she won the battle / In the ugly streets of Jersey / Where a star is never born 'lest his name be Bruce. Now that I've dealt with the plot and proved I will never be a rapper, normal service will be resumed for this surprising movie. More info

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