Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
In ENDINGS, BEGINNINGS, the end of one affair has Daphne leaving New York and returning home to Los Angeles, swearing off alcohol and men. Her resolve is strong, but the dissolve is even stronger.
She is steadfastly celibate and sober …
The disappointment suffered from recent Australian television is more than somewhat assuaged by the sumptuous smorgasbord of short films presented in this year’s Dendy Awards.
The Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films is a short film springboard that has kick-started …
In a society that ties to the arts tail the clanking tin can of commercialism, THE SELF ISOLATION ACTIVITY BOOK by Ian Doors could not have come at a more timely time.
A sequel to the Novel Coronavirus 19, which …
A frog, a rabbit and a robot walk into an antique shop.
As they rummage through the rubble of a bygone era, they discover an Aladdin’s lamp.
“Rub it” says the Rabbit. “Rub it” says the Robot. The amphibian acquiesces …
Fair warning. Michael Connelly’s latest book is not a Harry Bosch thriller or a Mickey Haller Lincoln Lawyer romp.
FAIR WARNING marks the return of Jack McEvoy, the investigative journalist who headlined The Poet and The Scarecrow. It also features …
Monotony takes on a momentum that is mesmerising in Kitty Green’s THE ASSISTANT, a spare, precise and acerbic look at the gender divide in the workplace.
Set in a sterile, stark, artificially lit office, THE ASSISTANT is a day in …
The St Kilda Film Festival has revealed a dynamic and diverse nine-day online event. For the first time, audiences throughout Australia will be able to enjoy the Festival when it screens free online from Friday 12 June to Saturday 20 …
It started a decade ago with THE TRIP, a culinary tootle around England featuring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon playing facsimiles of themselves.
Two subsequent films had them do the same shtick through Italy and Spain.
Now a fourth adventure …
After a literally explosive beginning that is shattering to mind and body, HEARTS AND BONES takes its audience from war ravaged Africa to peace savaged Australia.
Surviving his latest assignment, conflict shutterbug, Daniel Fisher, returns home to the news of …
Who would have thought a book about erasure, eradication, and extinction could be so enormously entertaining?
Chris Flynn’s colossally funny MAMMOTH is the stupendous story of a Mammut americanum, excavated and exhumed thirteen thousand years after he sank into the …