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The Wrong Horse (The MC Showroom) – theatre review

A couple of bumbling, small time crims luck out in the farcical comedy The Wrong Horse. I speak of best mates…

Love Again – movie review

Based on the novel Text for You by Sofie Cramer, Jim Strouse’s (The Incredible Jessica James) Love Again is a…

Loaded (Malthouse Theatre) – theatre review

Sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll. That may well be the signature tune for 19-year-old unemployed, reckless, gay Australian Ari (Danny…

Book Club: The Next Chapter – movie review

Book Club: The Next Chapter is a feel-good sequel to the 2018 film Book Club. It concerns the ongoing fate…

Once (Comedy Theatre) – musical theatre review

A brilliant slice of musical theatre, Once has an inspiring, ear and eye pleasing balance of heart and humour. Based on…

Small Mercies (Dennis Lehane) – book review

American writer Dennis Lehane burst onto the crime scene with his hard-hitting debut A Drink Before the War (1994), the…

The Inspection – movie review

Writer-director Elegance Bratton’s own story of overcoming fierce odds to become a US marine inspired his film The Inspection. We’re…

80 for Brady – movie review

Four elderly women head off on a road trip to the 2017 Superbowl in Texas in support of their idol…

The Critical Marriage (Gasworks) – theatre review

A new Australian work, The Critical Marriage by Mark Andrew is the inside story of a relationship between a couple…

My Neighbour Adolf – movie review

One of the hits of the 2022 Jewish International Film Festival was this quirky dramedy about a Holocaust survivor who…