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CRANSTON ACADEMY: MONSTER ZONE (Cinema Release for the June School Holidays)

This sci-fi animated movie follows the misadventures of a self-acknowledged boy genius 15-year-old high school student, Danny Dawkins (Jamie Bell)As the inventor of the...

Six Minutes To Midnight (Cinema release 2020)

Set in the real-life Augusta-Victoria College, located in the English coastal town of Bexhill-On-Sea, this spy vs spy,  pre-WW2 thriller is loosely based on...

On The Beach (1959 Release now streaming on Stan)

As we in Victoria, Australia gingerly come out of our fourth COVID19 LOCKdown and the streets of Melbourne are still near-deserted I am hauntingly...

Blithe Spirit ( 2021 Amazon/Prime Original)

Based on the Noel Coward play of the same name, this romantic comedy is a fun-filled, delightful fantasy that is neither edgy nor offensive.This...

Max Richter’s Sleep, a filmed antidote to modern life with music to dream by

 Photo by MIKE TERRY/MadmanReview: Max Richter’s Sleep, directed by Natalie Johns.Music does things. For German-born, English-raised composer Max Richter, music is a “vehicle for travelling through the...

The Little Things (cinema release 2021)

The classic good cop – bad cop scenario is given a questionable twist in this ‘serial murder who done it’ mystery.When disgraced ex-detective Joe...

ZAPPA The Movie: (Australian cinema release 18th February 2021)

Frank Vincent Zappa   Born December 21, 1940 – Died December 4, 1993If you have never heard the music of Frank Zappa, then I suggest...

How historically accurate is the film High Ground? The violence it depicts is uncomfortably close to the truth

  Jacob Junior Nayinggul (left) and Simon Baker in High Ground (2020). Maxo, Bunya Productions, Savage Films The Australian film High Ground, set mostly at a mission...

Occupation: RAINFALL (the movie 2020)

OCCUPATIONOCCUPATION – RAINFALL Having never seen the original first movie I brought myself up to speed via Netflix ... I now believe this...

Ammonite: the remarkable real science of Mary Anning and her fossils

 Transmission FilmsThis story contains spoilers for AmmonitePalaeontologist Mary Anning is known for discovering a multitude of Jurassic fossils from Lyme Regis on England’s Dorset...
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Mick Pacholli

Mick created TAGG - The Alternative Gig Guide in 1979 with Helmut Katterl, the world's first real Street Magazine. He had been involved with his fathers publishing business, Toorak Times and associated publications since 1972. Mick was also involved in Melbourne's music scene for a number of years opening venues, discovering and managing bands and providing information and support for the industry.Mick has also created a number of local festivals and is involved in not for profit and supporting local charities.