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Mortal Kombat – movie review

Brutality, cynicism and tongue-in-cheek humour mark Mortal Kombat - a video game franchise turned big screen fight night. The story…

Fog (Kaja Malanowska) – book review

Polish author Kaja Malanowska wrote her third novel Fog (translated by Bill Johnson) as an experiment in attracting a broader…

Supernova – movie review

In Harry Macqueen’s Supernova, Sam (Colin Firth) is a classical pianist, and his partner Tusker (Stanley Tucci) is a writer.…

Golden Voices – movie review

Raja (Mariya Belkin) and Victor Frankel (Vladimir Friedman), a couple in their 60s, were the unsung heroes of Russian cinema.…

The Cane (Red Stitch Theatre) – theatre review

Power and control shift constantly in the drama The Cane, which is set in England. On the verge of retirement after…

Shaun the Sheep’s Circus Show (Regent Theatre) – theatre review

Circa Contemporary Circus has teamed with Aardman Studio to bring to life Shaun, the sheep who has been creating mischief…

Dumtectives (Melbourne International Comedy Festival) – theatre review

A whodunnit like you have never seen. That is the domain of three hapless private investigators out to solve a murder…

Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro) – book review

Klara and the Sun is the first novel from Kazuo Ishiguro since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017…

Faulty Towers: The Dining Experience – theatre review

Absolutely marvellous entertainment. A hoot. Heaps of fun. That’s what is in store when you venture upstairs at The Duke…

Because the Night (Malthouse Theatre) – immersive theatre review

It is the 1980s. King Hamlet has died suddenly. A month later, his sister – Claudia – is crowned monarch…