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An Ideal Husband (La Boite) – theatre review

A pre-show soundtrack featuring "Barbie Girl" and "Ice Ice Baby" immediately acquaints the audience at La Boite Theatre’s re-imagining of…

CLOSED: Win tickets to Press Play

- Press Play - Only in cinemas from 28 July 2022 We have 5 double in-season passes thanks to Rialto…

The Great Awakening (Shearwater) – music review

In the six years since that last Shearwater album, Jonathan Meiburg published a novel, formed a new band with members…

The Black Phone – movie review

Denver 1978. 13-year-old Finney (Mason Thames) is a school kid who is a decent baseball pitcher. It looks like he…

All the Lovers in the Night (Mieko Kawakami) – book review

Mieko Kawakami is probably best known for her second novel in translation – Breasts and Eggs. Her third novel to…

Caligula (Theatre Works) – theatre review

There will be blood. That expression well sums up the tyrannical reign of Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, better known as…

The Gray Man – movie review

This generic globe-trotting action thriller comes across like James Bond on steroids. The Gray Man is based on the 2009…

Stir-fried Science (The Butterfly Club) – theatre review

First up, a confession – I didn’t study science at school and I believe I am worse off because of…

The Sunshine Club (Queensland Theatre) – theatre review

The Sunshine Club opens in the summer of 1946. Ambitious Aboriginal solider, former boxing champion Frank Doyle (Marcus Corowa) has…

New music round-up (for w/e 15 July 2022)

Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 15 July 2022. Amid…