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If Words Were Flowers (Curtis Harding) – music review

Psychedelic vintage soul champion Curtis Harding set the bar high with his first two albums, 2014’s Soul Power and 2017’s…

Hell Ship: The Journey of the Ticonderoga (fortyfivedownstairs) – theatre review

Accompanied by a lone cellist (Thomas Veitch) and dressed in period costume, Michael Veitch weaves a deeply personal and tragic…

Best Sellers – movie review

Two newcomers, a rising star and a consummate veteran collaborate on Best Sellers. Anthony Grieco provides his first script for…

Wild Place (Christian White) – book review

Hot off his Ned Kelly Award win for the twisty crime novel The Wife and the Widow, Christian White dives…

New music round-up (for w/e 19 November 2021)

Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 19 November 2021. Walk…

CLOSED: Win tickets to Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City

- Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City - Only in cinemas from 9 December 2021 We have 5 double in-season…

The Power of the Dog – movie review

The Power of the Dog is Jane Campion’s first feature film since Bright Star, twelve years ago. Produced under the…

Tick, Tick … Boom! – movie review

Jonathan Larson wrote the smash hit Broadway musical Rent. How he got there is the subject of Tick, Tick ……

Last Night in Soho – movie review

Genre-bender Edgar Wright goes fully belter in his new film, Last Night in Soho. While it’s most recognisably a horror…

Zola – movie review

Aimed at Gen Z, Zola has attitude but, arguably, few smarts. The premise is straightforward enough, namely how two twenty-something…