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Book Club: The Next Chapter – movie review

Book Club: The Next Chapter is a feel-good sequel to the 2018 film Book Club. It concerns the ongoing fate…

Once (Comedy Theatre) – musical theatre review

A brilliant slice of musical theatre, Once has an inspiring, ear and eye pleasing balance of heart and humour. Based on…

Small Mercies (Dennis Lehane) – book review

American writer Dennis Lehane burst onto the crime scene with his hard-hitting debut A Drink Before the War (1994), the…

The Inspection – movie review

Writer-director Elegance Bratton’s own story of overcoming fierce odds to become a US marine inspired his film The Inspection. We’re…

80 for Brady – movie review

Four elderly women head off on a road trip to the 2017 Superbowl in Texas in support of their idol…

New music round-up (for w/e 5 May 2023)

Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 5 May 2023. Over…

The Critical Marriage (Gasworks) – theatre review

A new Australian work, The Critical Marriage by Mark Andrew is the inside story of a relationship between a couple…

My Neighbour Adolf – movie review

One of the hits of the 2022 Jewish International Film Festival was this quirky dramedy about a Holocaust survivor who…

A Streetcar Named Desire (Genesian) – theatre review

One of America’s most influential twentieth century plays A Streetcar Named Desire’ is now on at Sydney’s Genesian Theatre. Written…

Happy Days (MTC) – theatre review

Absurdist and existential, Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days is a play strictly for selective tastes. That is not to overlook Judith…