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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…

Lip Service (Ensemble) – theatre review

Lip Service is a new Australian play that premiered in a separate production in London earlier this year with the…

God’s Own Country – movie review

Johnny Saxby (Josh O’Connor, from TV series Peaky Blinders) is a sullen, morose young man working on his family farm…

Ache by Eliza Henry-Jones – book review

Eliza Henry-Jones is a new writer to me. Everything about Ache is beautiful, from the cover, with those piercing eyes,…