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The Odd Couple (Comedy Theatre and Theatre Royal Sydney) – theatre review

In New York, two separated guys – best mates – move in together. They are like chalk and cheese … polar…

HSBC Spanish Film Festival 2024 – a preview

The 2024 HSBC Spanish Film Festival, presented by Palace, brings a fiesta of the finest new and classic films from…

We’re Banking On It! (fortyfivedownstairs) – theatre review

A contemporary twist on an old fancy, Monash University Student Theatre (MUST) in association with Bloomshed, have taken aim at…

All Us Sinners (Katy Massey) – book review

Katy Massey draws on her own family history as the basis for her downbeat and gritty debut crime novel All…

The Strangers: Chapter 1 – movie review

Renny Harlin was one of the great action directors of the late 80s and early 90s, with films like Die…

Billy Elliot The Musical (CLOC Musical Theatre) – musical theatre review

Billy Elliot The Musical remains as moving and evocative as when I first saw it at Her Majesty’s Theatre on…

Medea (Queensland Theatre) – theatre review

Discard any preconceived notions of an ancient Greek play by Euripides about a woman who kills her children. Adaptations of…

Rootless Cosmopolitans (Chapel Off Chapel) – theatre review

Being identifiable as Jewish today is more fraught than at any time since the Holocaust. Since the October 7 Hamas terrorist…

The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan – movie review

Intrigue and subterfuge abound in the rich and engaging period action drama The Three Musketeers: d'Artagnan. This is Part I…

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Arts Theatre) – theatre review

I’ve now seen A Midsummer Night’s Dream countless times, including at The Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon (#sogood), because despite…