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Broker – movie review

Hirokazu Kore-eda is one of Japan’s greatest living filmmakers. You could mount a case he’s the greatest living Japanese filmmaker…

Strange Dance (Philip Selway) – music review

Philip Selway, best known as the drummer in Radiohead, has released his third solo album revealing an affinity for the…

Madama Butterfly (Opera Australia’s Handa Opera) – opera review

Opera Australia’s Handa Opera Madama Butterfly sears with emotion. It is a splendid and spectacular offering, with surprises, against the backdrop…

The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? (STC) – theatre review

Intelligent couple Stevie (Claudia Karvan) and Martin Gray (Nathan Page) have been happily married for 22 years. They have a 17-year-old…

Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves – movie review

Movies based on video games are pretty common - Angry Birds, Sonic the Hedgehog and Pokemon: Detective Pikachu to name…

The Death of John Lacey (Ben Hobson) – book review

The Australian western is having a bit of a renaissance and is, at the same time being reinvented. The modern…

New music round-up (for w/e 24 March 2023)

Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 24 March 2023. Recorded…

Holding the Man (Chapel Off Chapel) – theatre review

Based on a memoir by the late Timothy Conigrave, playwright Tommy Murphy has given us an up close and personal…

John Wick: Chapter 4 – movie review

Keanu Reeves returns as the taciturn, virtually indestructible lone-wolf assassin John Wick. This is the fourth installment in the successful…

Deleted Scenes (Gramercy Arms) – music review

Gramercy Arms is a NYC musical collective brought together around the songwriting of Dave Derby, who keeps the focus of…