Culture

  • Peaceful alien or communist threat?

    The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
    Directed by Scott Derrickson, starring Keanu Reaves & Jennifer Connelly
    Screening in cinemas Connelly
    The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
    Directed by Robert Wise, starring Michael Rennie & Patricia Neal.

  • Sucking up to Blair

    Blair Unbound
    By Anthony Seldon (with Peter Snowdon & Daniel Collings)
    Simon & Schuster, 2008
    669 pages, Paperback $29.95

  • Our Bernadette at sixty

    IN 1969, that Ulster gutter preacher Ian Paisley himself with his Yankee doctorate from Bob Jones U, unsmiling, with his dirty money salted away, with his imperial law and his gunmen in the shadows called

  • Alistair Hulett, David Rovics tour Australia

    Australian fans of quality, progressive music are in for a real treat this summer with the joint tour by left-wing songwriters Alistair Hulett from Scotland and David Rovics from the US.

  • On the box

    Fidel Castro — Looks at Castro's early life as the son of a wealthy landowner, a Jesuit student, and as a young rebel lawyer who led the Cuban people to revolution. SBS, Friday. November 28, 1.30pm. Lionel Rose — In 1968, a young Aboriginal

  • Watch the worms squirm

    The Howard Years
    Series producer Deborah Masters
    Interviewer/Narrator Fran Kelly
    ABC, Monday 8.30pm

  • On the box

    Summer of Love - Looks at the hippy district of San Francisco's Haight Ashbury during the summer of 1967, which had utopian beginnings born of idealistic youths who'd grown up with post-WWII affluence but were now dealing with Vietnam, racism, and