Currently in limited release, Of an Age is a sensitive coming-of-age drama told in two time frames. The film opens in 1999 and Kol (Elias Anton) is three weeks off turning 19. He is friends with hyperactive Ebony (Hattie Hook), who wakes by the water’s edge at a beach in Altona dazed and confused. Using…
– Mavka: The Forest Song – Only in cinemas from 30 March 2023 (Qld) and 6 April (elsewhere) We have 5 double in-season passes thanks to Transmission Films. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE Mavka is a Soul of the Forest and its newly chosen Guardian. Her primary mission is to protect…
Eleanor Catton shot to literary fame by becoming the youngest winner of the Booker Prize in 2013 for her luminous historical novel The Luminaries. Ten years later she returns with Birnam Wood, much more contemporary, no less New Zealand but at the same time just as universal, a deep exploration of humanity that transcends time…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 17 March 2023. Daddy Long Legs, New York City’s most diabolical rhythm & blues street gang, have released their eagerly anticipated new album Street Sermons via Yep Roc Records. The band’s fourth studio album represents a wellspring of bottled-up…
The movie Living contemplates the rhetorical question “You call that living?”. We’re in London in the 1950s and the respect Mr Williams (Bill Nighy) heads up Public Works at County Hall. He and his staff travel to work each day by train – although not in the same carriage – dressed to the nines (bowler…
In Ti West’s prequel to X (2022), Pearl (Mia Goth) is a star in the making – at least in her own head. It’s 1918, and the combination of WWI and the Spanish flu has many on tenterhooks. Pearl’s husband Howard (Alistair Sewell) – a good man – is off fighting. She lives on a…
Rosie is a 20-something year old florist shop owner and party girl for whom life has its challenges. She and her Irish best friend Cara are inseparable. They have been ever since they met in Year 8. But, of late, it has been all work and little play for Cara, due to a job upgrade. Rosie has just…
Manzanita is the common name for a kind of small evergreen tree endemic to California which has strong medicinal properties. It is a fitting title for the newest solo album from La Luz’s Shana Cleveland as the record displays a gorgeousness that will instantly change your state of mind in one setting. The lyrics, the…
Dominic Smith takes readers to Northern Italy in his sixth novel Return to Valetto and brings with him the richness and descriptive power that characterised his earlier novels. While his last couple of novels revolves around art and artists (The Last Painting of Sara de Vos and The Electric Hotel) they had an interest in…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 10 March 2023. Lonnie Holley’s new album, Oh Me Oh My, is both elegant and ferocious, sharpening the work contained on his 2018 release MITH. It is stirring in one moment and a balm the next. Intricately and lovingly…
