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Legends in Concert (The Palms at Crown) – music theatre review

This all singing, all dancing, hit song fest just gets better and better, year after year. What a show! What…

Disturbance Trip (High Rise) – music review

“This fuzzed-out live set from 1992 documents High Rise at their noise-soaked best.” Album Overview: Even though they are one…

Top Ten Books of 2024 – book reviews

Percival Everett’s James, a reimagining and recontextualising of Huckleberry Finn is a masterpiece. Satirical, cutting, compassionate, but also in many…

School of Rock The Musical – musical theatre review

It’s lively. It’s cheery. It upends political correctness. In fact, it is the perfect holiday treat. I speak of School…

Paddington in Peru – movie review

Paddington (the voice of Ben Whishaw) gets back to his roots in a rollicking adventure with the Brown family in…

Nosferatu – movie review

Atmospheric, Nosferatu puts the bite on an impressionable youngster, who carries her commitment to Dracula into her marriage, with terrifying…

Top movies of 2024

Photo by Krists Luhaers on Unsplash Despite some dire rumblings, the Australian cinema scene posted a respectable 2024. According to…

John Foreman’s Australian Pops Orchestra New Year’s Eve & The Day Before Gala Concerts (Hamer Hall) – concert review

What a glorious way to bring in the New Year! Witness three powerhouse performances from musical theatre royalty, accompanied by…

Blitz – movie and streaming review

Between September 7th, 1940 and May 11th, 1941, the Nazis carried out an intense bombing campaign in London and other…

A Real Pain – movie review

Jesse Eisenberg has used his Jewish family’s roots to craft A Real Pain. The film follows cousins making a pilgrimage…