Dance Nation (Red Stitch) – theatre review
What price success? That’s the key question asked in Clare Barron’s Australian premiere satirical comedy
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Patrick (movie) – streaming review
Patrick is a British comedy celebrating our love of pets. It’s told through the eyes
Pimped – movie review
The subject matter of Pimped is tawdry; nasty in fact. This is a film that
A View from the Bridge (MTC) – theatre review
Dread is palpable throughout Arthur Miller’s drama A View from the Bridge. The Melbourne Theatre
Hotel Mumbai – movie review
The events depicted in Hotel Mumbai are ghastly … made all the more so because
Sometimes Always Never – movie review
I loved the droll humour in the slow-moving Sometimes Always Never. The film features the
33 Variations (Comedy Theatre) – theatre review
The complexities of music, human relationships and health all get a working over in Moises
Everybody Knows – movie review
A highly-charged thriller, Everybody Knows is intoxicating cinema. It’s the work of brilliant Iranian filmmaker
Jersey Boys (Regent Theatre) – theatre review
Undoubtedly one of the finest contemporary musicals and one I never tire of seeing because
King of Thieves – movie review
There’s no honour among thieves in the heist movie King of Thieves. A group of