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Book of Love – movie review

Although it’s a cliched romantic comedy, Book of Love is not entirely without humour or charm. Henry Copper (Sam Claflin)…

Admissions (MTC) – theatre review

White privilege receives a pummelling in the satire Admissions. It is 2015 and Sherri Rosen-Mason (Kat Stewart) is head of admissions…

Nothing (fortyfivedownstairs) – theatre review

Pierre Anthon is a massive thorn in the backside of his classmates in year 9. Just one utterance changed their perspective…

The Heretic (Liam McIlvanney) – book review

Liam McIlvanney’s first Duncan McCormack book The Quaker won the 2018 Scottish Crime Book of the Year. In The Heretic…

Miss Marx – movie review

Early on in Susanna Nicchiarelli’s Miss Marx, the writer-director makes it clear she considers her subject to be a kind…

Phantasmagoria (Theatre Works) – theatre review

One of the most creative and mind challenging works I have seen, Phantasmagoria revisits the past in order for the…

Stay Woke (Malthouse Theatre) – theatre review

Political correctness and sibling rivalry get a decent working over in Stay Woke, the brainchild of Aran Thangaratnam. Sai (Kaivu Suvarna)…

The Batman – movie review

In Matt Reeves’ dark vision, The Batman, Gotham City is a cesspool of evil and corruption. For two years Bruce…

Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner (La Boite) – theatre review

Award-winning British playwright Jasmine Lee-Jones’ provocatively-titled Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner appropriately begins in iPhone lighting. Newly-single student Cleo…

Mickey7 (Edward Ashton) – book review

Edward Ashton has fun with a bunch of well explored science fiction tropes and throws in a little philosophy in…