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Hard Quiz Live (Melbourne Town Hall) – theatre review

Gold Logie winner Tom Gleeson is highly entertaining and hilarious as he hosts the equivalent of an episode of his…

X – movie review

Texas 1979. A group of six amateur filmmakers head into rural Texas to film an adult movie called The Farmer’s…

The Duke – movie review

Art and crime have always been strange but frequent bedfellows. From the often-illegal activities of Caravaggio to the sensational art…

Morbius – movie review

Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) possesses a brilliant mind. But a rare blood disorder has left him crippled and in agonising…

Life On Earth (Hurray for the Riff Raff) – music review

While Life On Earth is Hurray for the Riff Raff’s debut on the Nonesuch label, it’s the 7th studio album…

Loveland (Robert Lukins) – book review

Robert Lukins’ Loveland, follow up to his debut The Everlasting Sunday, is an inter-generational family drama that takes readers from…

New music round-up (for w/e 25 March 2022)

Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 25 March 2022. African…

Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Red Stitch Theatre) – theatre review

Catholic guilt and US conservative politics are given a whack in the Australian premiere of Will Arbery’s Heroes of the…

Hamilton (Her Majesty’s Theatre) – theatre review

Dramatic, emotional, evocative. Electrifying. Triumphant. That is Hamilton, as good a musical as has appeared on stage. That’s right. Nothing yet seen…

Things Are Great (Band of Horses) – music review

We all know “Things Are Great” is what you say, when you don’t want to tell people that you’re really…