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Sideways to New Italy (Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever) – music review

Avoiding the sophomore album slump is a monumental task for any group that had a successful debut, like Melbourne-based band…

Homegrown (Neil Young) – music review

This long “lost” Neil Young album was recorded late in 1974, two years after his classic solo, commercial breakout album,…

The Current War – movie review

The Current War concerns the development of the electric light. But that prosaic premise belies a voyage of discovery, filled…

High Fidelity (ABC iView) – streaming review

It is quite possible that every generation needs its own version of High Fidelity to hit the screen.  Very broadly…

The Safe Place (Anna Downes) – book review

The London life of a young actor can be one of flopped auditions, money scrounging, crummy rentals and the occasional…

Trauma Center – movie review

It looks a bit like Die Hard in a hospital wing. Only the adamant John McClane has been replaced by…

New music round-up

Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 26 June 2020. Victorian…

The Flight (Julie Clark) – book review

Two women who strike up a conversation at an airport have one pressing concern in common.  Both need to disappear,…

I Don’t Feel at Home in this World Anymore (Netflix) – movie review

This movie may have passed you by the first time as a sleeper and if so, now is the perfect…

Notes on a Conditional Form (The 1975) – music review

By now, there are some constants that we can assert about The 1975. They like to dream big, and they…