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Upright (FOXTEL) – streaming review

Tim Minchin’s genius in picking out the best bits of our common Australian experiences and presenting them back to us…

Impossible Causes (Julie Mayhew) – book review

Choosing the remote island of Lark to relocate to is a decision made by the Kendricks in the wake of…

The Choir of Man – theatre review

Feel good entertainment in a good, old-fashioned pub – what could be better than that? Well … simple, really –…

Spies in Disguise – movie review

Killing crooks with kindness. That is the concept behind this original animated feature, which turns traditional methods of spying on…

Portrait of a Lady on Fire – movie review

Feeling and sensitivity pervade every fibre of the sensual and artistic work by French auteur Céline Sciamma (Girlhood). We’re in…

The Truth – movie review

There’s a great deal of warmth and good humour in filmmaker Kore-eda Hirokazu’s (who won the Palme d’Or at Cannes…

Cats – movie review

By the end I was bawling like a baby.  CATS, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical as a Tom Hooper-directed and…

The Witcher (Netflix) – streaming review

It is suspected that viewers of The Witcher will fall into two camps – fantasy readers/gamers, and Henry Cavill fans. …

Jojo Rabbit – movie review

After taking on vampires (What We Do in the Shadows) and superheroes (Thor: Ragnarok), hugely talented NZ director Taika Waititi…

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – movie review

The offspring of Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) and Han Solo (Harrison Ford) trying to resolve deep-seated…