2nd Grade is the creative vehicle of songwriter Peter Gill. Since its inception, the project has been defined by short, catchy power-pop tracks that fuse nostalgia with an experimental edge. Scheduled Explosions is Gill’s most ambitious release to date, expanding his vision across 23 tracks that feel both intimate and chaotic. Home-recorded with engineer Lucas…
Just how far can artificial intelligence take us? Can it deliver genuine companionship and more for the lonely, elderly and ailing? Those questions are answered in the resounding affirmative by playwright Jose Rivera in his dramatic and comedic work Your Name Means Dream. Aislin (Caroline Lee), of Polish Irish extraction (and whose name means dream…
This is an exhibition that starts from a place of wholesome and enduring love. After all, who doesn’t have a special place in their heart for either a cat or a dog. Some that walk amongst us are painted as cat people and others as dog aficionados and, of course, this showcase caters to both….
A whip smart dramatic and comedic script and a couple of stellar performances characterise a seedy story set in Singapore. Singaporean Chinese Girl (Merlynn Tong) is 14 and her brother Boy (Charles Wu) is 21. Boy moved out of home seven years ago and became a gang member, which he regards as a badge of…
Saturday Night Live – SNL to fans – is a TV institution in the US. And although it’s taken a while, streaming and (especially) social media have seen the show gain traction in Australia too. Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night takes us back to where it all began – the very first episode of the show…
In her seventh novel, Rapture, Australian author Emily Maguire takes readers to ninth Century Europe and a story that feels like it could almost be true. That story, of a woman who dresses as a man to enter a monastic order, does have its roots in both reality and myth. Only in this case, the…
Greedy People is a blackly comic and atmospheric low budget crime-drama from director Potsy Ponciroli (Old Henry) and writer Mike Vukadinovich (TV series Runaways). Set in a picturesque coastal town in Rhode Island, it very much has a similar vibe to the Coen brothers. Ponciroli juggles a great cast of eccentric and amoral characters, all…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 25 October 2024. For her tenth album on Sony Classical, Khatia Buniatishvili joins the iconic Academy of St Martin in the Fields in performances of two cherished piano concertos by Mozart, her first ever album dedicated to the composer….
Venom: The Last Dance is the third instalment of the Venom trilogy. It takes place a year after investigative journalist turned vigilante Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) was “invaded” by a symbiote (an extraterrestrial parasite) to become Venom. Although Eddie’s part of the character is trying to keep a lid on Venom’s antics, the symbiote continues…
Body image is a hot topic at the moment, something The Substance recently tapped into with great success. But while The Substance leaned more into a particular kind of body horror, Aaron Schimberg goes in a different direction with his intriguing but perplexing A Different Man. In the film, the main character has neurofibromatosis. Basically…
