Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
From its incendiary opening to its gut punch ending, Mali Cornish’s THE MISSING MOTHER is a thriller you won’t want to miss.
There’s something wrong in Geelong, with the boarding schools and scabby bus kids, the waterfront and the oil …
See what they did there?
The beginning of Chapter Thirteen, the final chapter of Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion collaborative and compulsively readable new book, THE GENERAL HOSPITAL, starts with an allusion to an iconic movie and in a literary …
The marvellous Carmen Maura plays Maria Angeles, a 79-year-old Spanish woman, living alone in Tangier, Morocco, enjoying her daily routine. However, her life is turned upside down when her daughter arrives from Madrid to sell the apartment in which she …
Sunshine. Shoreline. Sand. Sea. A paradise lost to homicide.
It’s Camus in the Ozon layer as multi award-winning writer/director François Ozon takes on THE STRANGER, a fabulously faithful adaptation of Albert Camus’ landmark novel about a detached young man and …
Camouflage. A tactical method to conceal and prevent detection.
The camouflage of a crime underpins FUZE, Director David Mackenzie’s buzzy B film about a heist under cover of a military exercise in greater London.
FUZE unfolds after an unexploded World …
Follow that cad!
Patricia A. O’Brien’s ERROL FLYNN seeks to dig beneath the American myth of Errol Flynn to uncover the Australian man, tracing the odyssey from his Hobart birth to his Hollywood burial and his cultural afterlife.
Errol Flynn’s …
“The internet is the fiery bowels of hell.” says a major character in Sarah Bailey’s latest thriller, CLICK.
Set in the first month of 2020 just before the catastrophe of the Covid 19 pandemic, CLICK also …
All men are rapacious.
That’s the spear gun point in the shape shifting narrative, THE SHARK, by Emma Styles. She proclaims she writes Australian crime fiction about young women taking on the patriarchy and that’s what she has done in …
THE DEB pays a debt to pleasure. With an opening song called Fuck My Life, led by a precocious schoolgirl and cohort of privileged choristers, the tone is set, the buzz begun.
Strictly Ballroom out of Welcome to Woop Woop, …
There can never be too much Jim Jarmusch.
Jim’s latest gem, FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER begins with a thrilling rendition of Spooky by Anika, “Would I like to go with you and see a movie? First I say no, …