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Private Prosecution (Lisa Ellery) – book review

Lisa Ellery takes a risk in her debut crime novel Private Prosecution. That is to have a main character who,…

New music round-up (for w/e 4 February 2022)

Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 4 February 2022. The…

The Wedding Singer: The Musical Comedy (Arts Centre Melbourne) – theatre review

What a thoroughly entertaining showpiece! I last saw The Wedding Singer when it played at the Athenaeum Theatre last May. Now,…

Grace (Red Stitch Theatre) – theatre review

A family secret is the elephant in the room when three generations of women share luxury hotel accommodation in Copenhagen…

Belfast – movie review

Hindsight, they say, is 20-20. But the rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia can distort the lens. In Belfast, director Kenneth Branagh…

Moonfall – movie review

Artificial Intelligence turns on its creator in Moonfall. The stakes for Earth and its inhabitants, not to mention the Moon,…

The SPACE Sessions (Josh Caterer) – music review

While some artists have used the shutdown of normal life due to the pandemic to hibernate in their studios and…

Queen Bees – movie review

A geriatric Mean Girls? The likeable romantic comedy Queen Bees is set in a retirement home is a moderately entertaining…

CLOSED: Win tickets to Europa! Europa! Film Festival

- Europa! Europa! Film Festival - Sydney and Melbourne 4 - 27 February 2022 We have 2 double passes to…

Dust Off the Bones (Paul Howarth) – book review

Paul Howarth’s debut Only Killers and Thieves was a confronting Australian-western that had at its centre the massacre of an…