– Come from Away – Only at the Comedy Theatre, Melbourne We have 3 double passes thanks for the performance of Come from Away on Thursday, 21 January 2021 at 7 pm. *Please make sure before you enter that you will be 1) in Melbourne, and 2) available to attend on that date* *(Tickets valid…
– High Ground – Only in cinemas from 28 January 2021 We have 5 double in-season passes thanks to Madman Films. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE Set against the stunning landscapes of 1930s Arnhem Land, HIGH GROUND chronicles young Aboriginal man Gutjuk, who in a bid to save the last of…
Cinema, like any art form, has boundless capacity to surprise. Disney-Pixar has struggled a little recently (see Onward, for example). But the studio reclaims its title as the benchmark in animation with the incredible Soul. I suspect the success of Soul has a lot to do with the return of Pete Docter to the director’s…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 25 December 2020. Where The World Is Thin is the new album from Kris Drever, a writer and guitarist whose songwriting consistently sets high standards in modern folk music. Drever’s voice and guitar form a part of the backbone…
The truth, they say, can be stranger than fiction. In Lydia Dean Pilcher’s A Call to Spy, the true story of remarkable women spies might not be all that strange, but it is powerful. Virginia Hall is sometimes touted as America’s first woman spy. While the title might not be entirely accurate, she was one…
The idea that the collective is stronger than the individual underpins The Croods 2: A New Age. This is of course the sequel to the successful animated film The Croods (2013). The story picks up when young Guy (voiced by Ryan Reynolds) is left to fend for himself. His loved ones’ last words to him…
A gay Sliding Doors with subtitles? End of the Century is essentially a two-handed drama which serves up a meditation on relationships, the choices we make, and the fallibility of memory. Ocho (Juan Barberini), a fortysomething Argentine poet from New York on holiday in Barcelona, meets Javi (Ramon Pujol), a Berlin-based producer of a children’s…
French cinematic touchstones and a powerful feminist message merge in Martin Provost’s How to be a Good Wife. This slightly bonkers film traverses similar ground to Philippa Lowthorpe’s Misbehaviour, and does it with a similarly entertaining flair. But it also leans heavily into the traditions of French farce. Provost’s previous film was the far more…
Wonder Woman (2017) was one of the best films in the expanded DC cinematic universe. The sequel, Wonder Woman 1984 (or WW84 if you prefer), is one of the first blockbusters to welcome cinema audiences back the pandemic-related lockdowns. So there’s a lot riding on it to be a success. Unfortunately, as is the case…
Jack Heath does not waste a second in the start of his third book, Hideout, featuring part time FBI consultant and full time cannibal Timothy Blake. Blake turns up at a house in rural Texas, pretending to be a man who he has just killed called Lux, armed with a hammer and prepared to kill…
