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Italian Film Festival 2022 – a preview

The 2022 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival presented by Palace, Australia’s pre-eminent event celebrating the culture and cinema of Italy,…

K-Box (Malthouse Theatre) – theatre review

Identity is the theme of a dramatic comedy about a 34-year-old who is trying to get a sense of self. Korean-born…

Jesustown (Paul Daley) – book review

Australian journalist Paul Daley takes on his country’s past in his new novel Jesustown. Set mainly in a remote Aboriginal…

The Outfit – movie review

A deceptively clever period crime drama, director Graham Moore’s The Outfit is a slow burn mesmeriser. Set in Chicago in…

Caught (Red Stitch Theatre) – theatre review

After spending two years in a Chinese jail for organising a protest that never happened, Lin Bo (Louis Le) has given…

Fourteen (shake & stir) – theatre review

The Cremorne Theatre stage is packed with nooks and crannies to become the Yeppoon settings of shake and stir theatre…

Both Sides of the Blade – movie review

French auteur Claire Denis (White Material) often explores fragile relationships in her films, looking at the tension between her characters…

Orphan: First Kill – movie review

In Orphan: First Kill, Leena (Isabelle Fuhrman) looks every bit like a 10-year-old girl. But she’s actually 31 and the…

Three Thousand Years of Longing – movie review

From the folk tales of One Thousand and One Nights, to highest grossing film of 1992, Aladdin, the story of…

The Dark Web (Bottled Snail) – theatre review

Clever and melodic, The Dark Web is a delightful, rib tickling, original musical from the vivid imagination of its writer,…