A Dog’s Way Home is a family-friendly and heartwarming animal adventure that combines elements of classics of the genre like Lassie Come Home, Homeward Bound, and even 2017’s A Dog’s Purpose. As a pup Bella was raised in the crawl space beneath a dilapidated house in Denver. She was rescued by Lucas (Jonah Hauer-King), who…
All things considered, 2017 was a pretty good year for movies. Not for Hollywood itself mind you. The scandals that plagued Tinseltown have been well covered elsewhere, so we’re not going to get into them here. But the consensus seems to be that the quality of movies this year was a cut above. By the…
Dead Centre by Tom Holloway, and Sea Wall, by Simon Stephens, two monologues, are presented as a Co-Production from the Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Melbourne, and Red Line Productions, at the Old Fitz Theatre. Sea Wall was written by contemporary British playwright, Simon Stephens (On the Shore of the Wide World), in 2008. A monologue…
Egyptian-born Akmal emigrated to Australia with his family when he was 11 years of age. From the roof of his 20-storey apartment building in Cairo he could see the pyramids and the sphinx. Imagine what it was like then when his parents took him to see the Big Banana in Queensland. That is just one of the…
Multi-award winning Australian crime fiction author Candice Fox returns with another incendiary, page turning stand alone thriller with a killer hook and great central characters in Devil’s Kitchen. Staying in America (where she’s set her last few books), the novel focusses on a crew of firefighters who use their position and their skills to carry…
Maddy Pratt loves sex … she loves, loves, loves sex. So, it only makes sense that she would pen an ode to her favourite pastime. She is wild and kinky too, but woe betide anyone who thinks she’s a lightweight. Make no mistake, while her one woman show (with accompanying pianist Ashton Turner) is risqué and heaps of…
Chaos and trauma are at play in Every Lovely Terrible Thing. A highly dysfunctional family implodes and picks apart its innards. They are the Colemans who live a rundown weatherboard house on the outskirts of a country town. Cooper, the unemployed, gay, clothing designer grandson in his early 20s, likes dressing in women’s attire and flouncing about. He…
Queensland Ballet’s annual Bespoke program is a triple bill of brand-new contemporary work that includes Katina Olsen’s gundirgan, wise woman, Milena Sidorova’s Birds of Paradise and Jack Lister’s Papillon. Now in its seventh year, Bespoke is an exhilarating opportunity to see elite ballet dancers perform in dynamic, contemporary settings, and the 2024 season did not…
The ultimate multi legendary artist tribute show – the longest running in Las Vegas history – is celebrating its 40th anniversary, with its sixth visit to Melbourne. Since it debuted in the US in 1983, it has played to more than 40 million people in 15 countries over five continents. I believe what we are privy to…
Sylvia Moreno-Garcia seems determined to write a book in every sub-genre of science fiction, fantasy and horror. She has taken on vampires in Certain Dark Things, powers in The Beautiful Ones and the gothic tradition in Mexican Gothic. Now Moreno-Garcia takes on and reinvents The Island of Doctor Moreau, one of the slightly less famous…
