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Win tickets to Love The Coopers

- Love The Coopers - Only in cinemas from 26 November 2015 We have 10 double in-season passes thanks to…

Vale John Bale

Regular readers of The Blurb will be familiar with the film reviews of our friend and long-time contributor, John Bale.…

The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood – book review

Here’s the thing. I’ve never read a Margaret Atwood book before. Never. Having heard so much praise about her writing,…

Blood Bank (Ensemble) – theatre review

Blood Bank is a new Australian play by a new writer Christopher Harley, at the Ensemble Theatre. It was part…

He Named Me Malala – movie review

This is an endearing portrait of one of the world’s bravest young women. It is an insight into the world’s…

Wash Room (Owl & Cat) – theatre review

Sexuality (some might call it perversion) appears to be a constant theme in young playwright Thomas Ian Doyle’s work, which…

Blindspot – television review

It was inevitable that the runaway success of The Blacklist would spawn imitators. No doubt the attraction of having a…

The Assassin – movie review

The patience of Job would be a great asset when setting out to watch this slow moving martial arts film…

Burlesque at escapeXperience – theatre review

My second Escape Room experience in Melbourne’s southeastern suburbs was just as intriguing as the first I had back in…

Spectre – movie review

I thought that Skyfall was one of the best Bond movies of the past fifty years, so I was eagerly…