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Late Night With the Devil – movie review

Every year when I get my hands on the Melbourne International Film Festival program and start selecting my films, the…

La Chimera – movie review

In the context of Alice Rohrwacher’s film La Chimera, the Chimera of the title is something people search for but…

Origin – movie review

Writer and director Ava DuVernay has chosen an artistic interpretation of the work of Isabel Wilkerson in Origin. The film…

I Have No Enemies (Theatre Works) – theatre review

Four actors … who break the fourth wall, track down a Melbourne man from a seven-minute rant obtained by a…

Tigers Blood (Waxahatchee) – music review

Tigers Blood is the latest album from the talented singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield, known by her stage name Waxahatchee. Having begun…

Civil War – movie review

Writer and director Alex Garland (Ex Machina) is a master filmmaker who steps it up a notch with the blockbuster…

Lucky Stiff (Chapel Off Chapel) – musical theatre review

A corpse dressed to the nines being carted around the French Riviera in a wheelchair. What could possibly go wrong? Plenty…

Closer (La Boite) – theatre review

Patrick Marber’s searing psychological dramedy Closer is La Boite’s first offering for 2024. Directed by CEO and Artistic Director Courtney…

Corpus Delicti! (La Mama Courthouse) – theatre review

Off-the-wall … wacky and wild, this whodunnit is so much fun. Hark back to the middle of last century. Corpus Delicti! concerns…

Gogmagog (Jeff Noon and Steve Beard) – book review

The speculative fiction genre got a bit of a kick in the teeth back in 2000 with the release of…