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Our Dark Secret (Jenny Quintana) – book review

If you are one of those readers who likes to get stuck in early into a novel’s backstory, right back…

Mother (If Theatre) – Theatre Review

Noni Hazlehurst is unrecognisable as dishevelled vagrant Christie, wandering about the rubbish that litters the Cremorne Theatre’s ramshackle staging in Mother.…

Citizen K – movie review

Hero or villain? Murderer? Campaigner for a democratic Russia? These are just some of the triggers in Citizen K, a…

Slut (The Burrow) – theatre review

Promiscuity to hide the pain. That – in a nutshell – is the short life and times of Lolita, as evocatively…

Undertow – movie review

Set in Geelong, Undertow is a psychological drama about grief, loss and toxic masculinity particularly within the AFL. It also…

Honeyland

A look at a way of life that's all but gone, Honeyland focuses on a pragmatic and resilient woman who…

Dark Waters – movie review

White hot rage built in me the longer Todd Haynes' latest film, Dark Waters, went on. This is a shocking…

Downhill – movie review

Swedish director Ruben Östlund's film Force Majeure (2014) marked his arrival as a filmmaker of note. Americans Nat Faxon and…

The Way Back – movie review

It may follow the playbook, but The Way Back still grips tightly. Back in high school, Jack Cunningham (Ben Affleck)…

Mullygrubs (Adelaide Fringe) – theatre review

A cleverly conceived and executed piece that purports to be one thing and turns out to be something else entirely,…