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Things to Come – movie review

Subtle is the key word in describing Things to Come; a sometimes tortuously slow-moving slice-of-life drama. Nathalie (Isabelle Huppert) teaches…

The Innocents – movie review

Dour and affecting, The Innocents is a historical drama inspired by little known events that happened in Poland immediately after…

Rules Don’t Apply – movie review

If you ever wondered just how quirky and delusional (off the planet, in fact) billionaire recluse Howard Hughes was, after…

Free Fire – movie review

From the outset we just know the contention in the action-crime thriller Free Fire is one set to explode and…

Got Soul by Robert Randolph & The Family Band – music review

Fifteen years ago, Robert Randolph and his Family Band burst into rock music consciousness with Live at the Wetlands —…

Shanghai Ballet’s Swan Lake (Regent) – theatre review

Forty-eight beautiful swans gracefully gliding across the stage in unison in Melbourne’s premier theatre is simply awe-inspiring … overwhelming (I…

Certain Women – movie review

Based on the 2009 short story collection Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It written by Maile Meloy,…

Raw – movie review

Man’s base animal instincts – or, in this case, woman’s – are on show in Raw; and I must tell…

Three Little Words (MTC) – theatre review

The contention is hardly conventional, but the vitriol and resultant humour crafted by one of Australia’s foremost playwrights, Joanna Murray-Smith…

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Old Fitz) – theatre review

An Easter Saturday night opening at the Old Fitz. And what an opening. Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, by…