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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…

That’s Not Me – movie review

Raw and refreshingly different, That’s Not Me is a feel-good, independently produced comedy that needs work. Polly Cuthbert’s dreams of…

IT – movie review

There's a great deal to enjoy about IT, and enough scares to keep all but die-hard horror fans satiated. Forget those…

AICE Israeli Film Festival 2017 – movie feature

The AICE Israeli Film Festival is currently in full swing in Sydney and Melbourne. Having run since 2005, the festival aims…