The Soloist is the emotional, heart-warming true story about the redemptive power of music for two lost souls. It centres on the relationship between a Los Angeles journalist and a once prolific classical musician, who through illness has fallen on hard times and is now living down and out on Los Angeles’ Skid Row. The bonding power of music comes to the fore when Journalist Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr) discovers Nathaniel Anthony Ayers (Jamie Foxx), a former classical music prodigy, busking on the streets with his two-string violin. We have seven copies of the DVD to fling your way. To win, tell us about the best busker you’ve ever seen.

Fred Smith. Many deadpan men in black. Crazy eh? But god it actually works! It all started in the session bar at the National Folk Festival. You can imagine the rest. Well, just in case you can’t, they made an award winning CD together called Urban Sea Shanties, so you don’t miss out on this poignant hilarity from a unique songwriter and his mates. Fred Smith, along with a Canberra band including Ted from The Fuelers, is bringing the odd but much loved Spooky Men’s Chorale to our fair town for one night only on Friday January 29 at The Playhouse. To celebrate, we’ve got their CD and a very spooky T-shirt to give away. To win, tell us Fred’s hometown (and your T size) for your chance to be a Spooky Man in your own lounge room.

The Windows on Europe Film Festival returns for its fourth season, bringing a dazzling program of award winning films to screens across Australia and NZ. This year the festival takes cinema lovers on a tour across 17 countries, with films spanning drama, romance, thriller, comedy and documentary. The program reflects a great mix from the past five years, and also includes a few older European classics. We have five doubles to any sesh of the fest (excluding opening and closing nights). To win, tell us your fav Euro flick.