Mesmerising graphics and non-stop, often helter-skelter, action mark the thrilling new Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, which has no shortage of dark edges. The animated adventure takes off after the events of the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018). It centres around 15-year-old Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore). Miles’ parents – police officer Jefferson Davis (Brian…
The Un Certain Regard Best Film Prize winner at Cannes last year, this is a beautifully shot, slow moving story about a pair of estranged brothers and their sheep in small town rural Iceland. This pair is more obstinate than their animals. Siblings Gummi (Sigurður Sigurjónsson) and Kiddi (Theodór Júlíusson) have been living side by…
The official soundtrack to StalkHer, the new Australian movie starring John Jarratt (Wolf Creek 1 & 2) has been released and is now available via Remote Control Records.OK The film’s title track is performed by Wishful, whose members include Memphis & Maddy Kelly – the daughters of the film’s lead actress and co-director Kaarin Fairfax and…
What’s in a name? For Jon Dwyer, it doesn’t seem to matter much as his OCS/The Oh Sees/Thee Oh Sees/Oh Sees project continues to morph its 20 year psychedelic garage rock arc and it just keeps getting more interesting. Orc is Oh Sees 19th record and feels as fresh and new as anything the band…
Australian rural crime author Adrian Hyland brought character Jesse Redpath from the red outback of Northern Territory to a tinder-dry Victorian country town in Canticle Creek. There was a raging bushfire in the climax to Canticle Creek but when Hyland’s follow-up The Wiregrass opens, the weather could not be more different. Jesse finds herself working…
Term Life is the kind of movie that makes me think deeply the next day, just because I can’t remember the title anymore. Let alone I remember anything significant content wise. At first I didn’t even feel like watching this comical crime film, due to the presence of Vince Vaughn. He isn’t exactly my favorite…
Mieko Kawakami is probably best known for her second novel in translation – Breasts and Eggs. Her third novel to be translated in to English All the Lovers in the Night (also translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd) is a deep character piece. The book focusses on a woman who has difficulty forming relationships,…
Jo Nesbø is best known for his Scandinavian-noir crime thrillers starring Detective Harry Hole. But during his long career he has also delivered a number of crime standalones. His latest book, The Kingdom is one of these. Set in and around small town in rural Norway, the book deals with long held grudges, mysterious deaths,…
Steve McQueen blows up the heist movie with Widows. Then he picks up the pieces and puts them back together with an Allen key. This fascinating jigsaw of a movie is definitely not what you might expect, but it’s also one of the most intriguing films of the year. It’s almost like McQueen decided to…
Much-buzzed-about band Whitney have released their debut album, Light Upon the Lake, on Secretly Canadian via Inertia. This follows on the heels of recent inescapable single “No Woman” and a notable trip to SXSW. Light Upon the Lake marks the culmination of a short, but incredibly intense, creative period for the band. Whitney was born…
