Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 10 April 2020. April was supposed to be when The Dandy Warhols went on the road to play a US tour. Instead, like so many of us, they find themselves bunkered down in isolation, beginning the journey of adjustment…
Fear is a powerful motivator. As we’re seeing at the moment, decisions based in fear can have profound effects. Writer-director Riley Stearns explores similarly dire consequences – along with the price of toxic masculinity – in The Art of Self-Defense. Mild-mannered Casey Davies (Jesse Eisenberg) lives alone with his dachshund and works as an accountant….
Wolf Hall dates from a few years ago (2015) but this quality limited series is streaming now on Stan, and it’s well worth catching up with. The series comes from the BBC (of course) and is based on Hilary Mantel’s novel of the same name. Wolf Hall – the book – was the first in…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 3 April 2020. When Anna Burch introduced herself on her 2018 debut Quit the Curse, and now follows up with If You’re Dreaming (released 3 April). The new album takes a different path from its predecessor, shedding some nervous…
Frozen meets Shrek in Onward, the latest adventure from the Disney-Pixar stable. The hype around this film has been understandably muted; but even though it’s a little “off”, it still delivers exactly what most audiences will want. Like Shrek, the Onward is set in a kind of split dimension in which the world of fantasy…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 27 March 2020. Somewhere in the middle of making Are You In Love?, Basia Bulat took almost a whole year off. Because she had fallen in love, because her father died, because she had lost her sense of beauty…
Could Stan’s new series Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist mark the birth of a new sub-genre – the comedy-soap-musical? It certainly gets props for trying something new. But having gone out on a limb with the concept, the producers quickly scamper back to safety as the series falls into some very tired tropes. Austin Winsberg – who…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 20 March 2020. If you’re isolating, or just feeling isolated, tune in every Saturday night (starting 6:30PM, AEST), Ella Fence will be performing a one-hour set that you can live stream from the comfort of your own home. The…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 13 March 2020. Steven Wilson’s new album The Future Bites is an exploration of how the human brain has evolved in the Internet era. As well as being Wilson’s sixth album, it’s also an online portal to a world…
Like it or not, race has long been a theme – and a flashpoint – in American cinema. Films like The Birth of a Nation and Gone With the Wind presented a distinctly white – even outright racist – view of the issue. Things began to change in the 1960s with films like Guess Who’s…
