Based on a true story, this is a dramatic recreation of a court case that took place in the French town of Saint Omer in 2016. Laurence Coly (Guslagie Malanda) is a young mother and Senegalese immigrant who is put on trial for having killed her fifteen months old daughter, supposedly to protect her from…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 28 May 2021. Reprise sees Moby revisiting and re-imagining musical highlights from his past. Together with the Budapest Art Orchestra, he has re-envisioned some of his most recognizable rave classics and anthems with new arrangements for orchestra and acoustic…
I was a fan of the UK television series Cold Feet, so when I received this book written by the creator of that series, I was intrigued. Here’s the blurb: ‘Trust wasn’t something you could have in degrees; it was all or nothing…’ When one bad decision sends a happy couple into turmoil and turns…
While gay marriage was recognised in the United States some time ago, it hasn’t led to an influx of mainstream gay-themed movies. They remain few and far between. Something like the excellent Academy Award winner Call Me by Your Name remains in the art house space. Love, Simon breaks the mould – an openly gay…
The psychedelic sounds of The Black Angels have been darkening our ears ever since their excellent first album Passover released in 2006. I would have been 20 years old at that point and while I was familiar with classic psychedelic sounds, I’d never heard a band go that hard into their influences. Passover should be…
The first thought that comes to mind when I think of Glen Hansard is that opening sequence in the movie Once, where we hear the singer/songwriter alone on acoustic guitar as the camera moves in one seamless longshot along the streets of Dublin, until we finally see him playing his acoustic guitar and singing out,…
e-baby is a new Australian play by Jane Cafarella, for two women, seen first in Melbourne, last year. The play charts a surrogacy pregnancy. We first meet Catherine (Danielle Carter), a 46 year-old, ex-pat Australian, living the ‘dream’ as a high-flying lawyer based in London, with a practice in New York, who after trying with…
Ministry of Sound’s Orchestrated returns to Australia this December with The Strings of Life Tour. Joining some of Australia’s finest orchestras for this concert series will be guest vocalists Sam Sparro, Crystal Waters and Alison Limerick performing Orchestrated’s biggest shows to date. As a celebration of the most influential dancefloor moments of the past 25…
As someone who has never seen any of the episodes of the award-winning hit HBO television series of the same name that aired between 2004 and 2011, this feature will undoubtedly resonate most with those who have. Entourage creator Doug Ellin directed the feature and wrote the screenplay from a story he and Rob Weiss…
It’s all good, clean, innocent, engaging, adventurous and flirtatious fun, until it isn’t. It is 1939 and I speak of a pair of first year boarding school students at Cambridge in England. These young ladies get to know lads from the university who make it a habit to climb edifices across town at night. Rosalind (Meg Taranto)…
