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The Blues is Alive and Well (Buddy Guy) – music review

At a time when we’re hearing that blues rock veterans Jimmy Page is thinking about a 50th Anniversary tour for…

Mother (QPAC) – theatre review

Noni Hazlehurst (right) has been touring this one-woman masterpiece for more than two years now and everywhere she has packed…

Superfly – movie review

A hip gangster has to get down and get dirty in Superfly.  This stylish 21st century remake of the 1972…

On Chesil Beach – movie review

On Chesil Beach introduces elements of theatre into a period drama about the relationship between two sensitive high-achievers. It's summer…

The Spy Who Dumped Me – movie review

I like a good spy movie; but The Spy Who Dumped Me isn't a great spy movie. It is however…

How It Ends (Netflix) – home entertainment review

How It Ends. Well, I’ve never seen a movie title that sounded so ambiguous afterward. They should have added a…

Cry Baby (Hayes) – theatre review

Cry Baby is an American musical from 2007. It's based on a John Waters film, as was the musical Hairspray,…

Ministry of Sound’s Orchestrated tour – music news

Ministry of Sound’s Orchestrated returns to Australia this December with The Strings of Life Tour. Joining some of Australia’s finest…

Summer 1993 – movie review

Carla Simón’s autobiographical feature debut, Summer 1993, is an evocative depiction of family lost and found. In (predictably) the summer…

OMG – Oy Mama Gevalt (Chapel off Chapel) – theatre review

Two 90-year-olds – both Holocaust survivors (one now dead and other not) – go at it … and at it.…