The 2024 Russell Hobbs British Film Festival – a preview
The 2024 Russell Hobbs British Film Festival returns to Australian cinemas this November with a…
New music round-up (for w/e 18 October 2024)
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 18 October 2024. The 23-year-old, Maryland-raised songwriter Jordana (Jordana Nye) (photo above by Kacey Makal) arrived on the music scene with 2020’s Classical Notions of Happiness, an album of lo-fi pop and hushed folk songs recorded in her bedroom….
The 2024 Russell Hobbs British Film Festival – a preview
The 2024 Russell Hobbs British Film Festival returns to Australian cinemas this November with a star-studded line-up. The festival will screen at Palace Cinemas in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Byron Bay and for the first time, Ballarat. The curated program features tender dramas, action packed thrillers, comedy, documentaries and retrospectives. And it features…
Win tickets to the Russell Hobbs British Film Festival 2024
– Russell Hobbs British Film Festival – In Palace Cinemas nationally from 6 November – 8 December 2024 We have 5 double passes to a session at the Festival (excluding special events) Note: Tickets are digital. They are individually barcoded and invalid once redeemed. As with printed tickets they can be presented (printed or digitally)…
Memoir of a Snail – movie review
I’m in awe of what Academy Award winner (for his short Harvie Krumpet) Adam Elliot can do with adult stop-motion animation. His storytelling is quirky and accessible, as shown in his second feature (after Mary and Max), Memoir of a Snail. This is a heartfelt story drawn from personal experiences. It follows a loner named…
Finucane & Smith’s Global Smash Club (Melbourne Fringe Festival) – theatre review
From high octane pop and rock to soulful melodies and operatic arias, this is a rampant, raucous, defiant, unabashed and provocative celebration of cabaret. These divas and deviants know how to party and ensure all of us are along for a particularly wild ride. They’ve been upending the art form for 20 years, doing things…
Werewolf (Arts Centre Melbourne) – theatre review
A political firestorm is brewing as the Far Right and LP the Far Left clash in the incendiary new work from writer Van Badham and director Gary Abrahams. There is no shortage of satire in this political thriller, which is bombastic and loud and revolutionary and proud of it. Between them, Badham and Abrahams set…
Gazebo (Ulna) – music review
Ulna is the project of Adam Schubert, a notable figure in the DIY music scene. He also plays guitar in Bnny alongside his wife, Alexa Viscius. Personally, Schubert has moved from a rebellious youth to a sober, reflective artist, a transformation that shines through on Gazebo, his second record as Ulna. The album represents the…
Win tickets to The Pool
– The Pool – Only in cinemas from 7 November 2024 We have 5 double in-season passes thanks to Madman Entertainment and Shark Island Productions. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE Bondi Icebergs is the most photographed pool in the world. More than just an Instagram destination, this pool is at once…
Win tickets to Audrey
– Audrey – Only in cinemas from 7 November 2024 We have 5 double in-season passes thanks to Rialto Distribution. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE Forgotten soap star and self-appointed Mother of the Year, Ronnie Lipsick (Jackie van Beek; The Office Australia) is trapped in a life of unfulfilled dreams and…
Dogs and Monsters (Mark Haddon) – book review
Mark Haddon joined the growing ranks of authors taking on Greek mythology in The Porpoise. Haddon clearly has a fascination with this material, in particular reimagining it and recontextualising it and he picks apart a number of famous Greek myths in his latest short story collection Dogs and Monsters. But this is not all Greek…
