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Echo: Every Cold-Hearted Oxygen (Malthouse Theatre) – theatre review

Take a real-life story and drop into it an actor, entertainment personality or media figure and ask them to play…

Superman (129 minutes) – movie review

Huge on effects, writer and director James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy) takes Superman into a newly imagined DC universe.…

Legally Blonde: The Musical (The National Theatre) – musical theatre review

Elle Woods’ superpower in Legally Blonde is staying true to herself. And so it is that the star of the…

The Divine Sarah Bernhardt (98 minutes) – movie review

Start with the facts and lace it with fiction. That is what screenwriter Nathalie Leuthreau and director Guillaume Nicloux have…

Waterloo (Theatre Works) – theatre review

I am a firm believer that everyone has a story to tell if you dig deep enough. Of course, some…

Smokescreen (fortyfivedownstairs) – theatre review

The complexities of marketing and manipulation at its finest are on show in a fictional horror show that has real…

Annie (Princess Theatre and touring) – musical theatre review

With an introductory nod to J.C. Williamson’s premiere season of Annie in Melbourne in 1978, this intoxicating, family friendly musical…

Second Victims, part of the 2025 Scandinavian Film Festival – movie review

What happens if you are a doctor and make a questionable call? Not just any questionable call, but one that…

Dear Son (Queensland Theatre) – theatre review

Dear Son is a powerful piece of theatre that deserves full houses every night. It stars five Indigenous male actors…

Mother Play: a play in five evictions (MTC) – theatre reviews

Partly drawn from the life of its Pulitzer Prize winning American writer Paula Vogel, Mother Play is theatre at its…