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The Lovely Bones (New Theatre) – theatre review

The main event which steers the story in The Lovely Bones is horrific and spine-chilling. And yet, it is not…

Don’t Look Up – movie review

Writer-director Adam McKay’s new film, Don’t Look Up, spoofs the materialistic, pop-culture world we live in. Earth is about to…

Dear Evan Hansen – movie review

Stephen Chbosky’s Dear Evan Hansen is a film adaptation of the Tony and Grammy Award winning musical of the same…

The French Dispatch – movie review

Are you into French culture? How about classic American writing of the 1950s and ’60s? Haute cuisine? Student politics? Post-modern…

Great Circle (Mary Shipstead) – book review

Maggie Shipstead’s third novel Great Circle was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. And for good reason. This is a…

The Lost Leonardo – movie review

Is it real or a fake? That was the $64,000 question … or, in the case of The Lost Leonardo,…

A Christmas Carol (shake and stir theatre company) – Theatre Review

At certain times of year or at a certain age we have perhaps all felt a little like the Ebenezer…

Encanto – movie review

Disney enlists Lin-Manuel Miranda for Encanto, an animated family adventure that comes off a bit like In the Heights transplanted…

The Card Counter – movie review

With a haunting look in his eyes, Oscar Isaac (Dune) excels in Paul Schrader’s (First Reformed) intense crime drama The…

Locked In (Shock Therapy) – theatre review

Experience of Shock Therapy’s Locked In is an intense one, elevated by its grounding in truth. The Australian premiere is…