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American Assassin – movie review

Violence abounds in American Assassin, a revenge flick which pits the CIA against the forces that instigate terror against the west.…

Victoria and Abdul – movie review

Queen Victoria formed an attachment late in life that brought the royal household to the point of apoplexy. That true…

New Kamasi Washington EP – music news

Kamasi Washington’s new EP Harmony of Difference is set to be released on 29 September 2017 via Young Turks / Remote Control…

Big Heart (Theatre Works) – theatre review

What a superb piece of writing, so magnificently realised … set up with a crackerjack opening monologue! Big Heart should…

Pretty Faces by Leah Senior – music review

Australian singer/songwriter Leah Senior’s second album finds the artist travelling the quiet path of the folk song troubadours of years…

Swedish Dicks – television review

Talk about high-concept. An unlikely pair of Swedes try to make a go of it as semi-skilled (but totally unlicensed) private detectives…

A New Map of Love by Abi Oliver – book review

A New Map of Love by Abi Oliver* brings readers an old-fashioned life-in-an-English-village story about George, who leads a predictable…

Italian Film Festival 2017 – film feature

A perennial festival favourite, the Lavazza Italian Film Festival screens at Palace Cinemas around Australia in September. Italian/Australian actor Greta…

The Dinner – movie review

A relentless, super intelligent mind puzzle, which gets better and better as the stakes grow, this is one of the…

The Lovers – movie review

A ponderous ode to sad sacks the world over, The Lovers really doesn’t start to resonate at all until nearly…