Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 17 November 2023. ELO songs were always coming on the radio when Juliana Hatfield was growing up. They were a reliable source of pleasure and fascination (except for “Fire On High” which scared the heck out of her). With…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 10 November 2023. Nighteyes, the evocative solo project of New Zealand-born and Melbourne-based multi-instrumentalist Rachel Trainor, has unveiled her haunting debut album The Way Back Down. This ethereal collection of dark rock, folk and electronica navigates an intricate narrative…
Where did it all go so wrong? After several era-defining movies, the Marvel franchise seems to be sputtering. Judging by the ill-conceived and frankly illogical The Marvels, it seems to have run out of ideas for these characters. The Marvels draws together Captain Marvel (2019), the Disney + mini-series Ms Marvel and a few scattered…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 3 November 2023. Jaime Wyatt has released her new album Feel Good via New West. A genre-defying work of healing and self-love, the album was produced by Black Pumas’ Adrian Quesada, Hailed by Pitchfork as one of the “most…
AI is a hot topic right now, so it’s only natural filmmakers would want to explore it. One of them is Garth Davis (Lion), who adopts a measured but sometimes oblique approach in Foe. Davis is clearly passionate about the project, having worked with novelist Iain Reid to adapt Reid’s novel of the same name…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 27 October 2023. Because Hold, Jack Tatum’s fifth album under the moniker Wild Nothing, was written in the aftermath of new parenthood during the pandemic, it was probably inevitable that it would be searching and existential music. But during…
After a three-year break, David Fincher is back with a very un-Fincher-like film with The Killer. This finely crafted film sees the director subverting just about every convention of the hitman sub-genre in a way I found both inventive and a little perplexing at the same time. Fincher is of course known for the directorial…
Australian director Craig Gillespie continues his successful foray into American film with Dumb Money. The film showcases Gillespie’s fast-paced directorial style in a David vs Goliath story that replaces slingshots with sub-Reddits. For whatever reason, Gillespie seems to be attracted to stories that say something about America and its people. That was certainly the case…
This November, the 2023 Cunard British Film Festival (presented by Palace Cinemas) will bring the finest British filmmaking, production and acting to Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Canberra and Byron Bay. Many of Britain’s most enduring and well-known faces feature in this year’s stunning selection including Anthony Hopkins, Timothy Spall, Olivia Colman, Helena Bonham Carter,…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 20 October 2023. Sybarite5’s first studio album in five years, Collective Wisdom, showcases their unique and award-winning blend of classical, folk, and contemporary genres. With three new members added to their ensemble, they showcase a spectacular lineup of world…
