Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
“More and more restrictions were placed on our daily lives, limiting our freedom of movement and creating the feeling that it wasn’t safe to even leave the house.”
This line from Mary Venner’s book, WHERE ARE YOU THIS TIME? chimes …
Far enough away but close enough, says creepily unreal real estate agent Martin describing Yonder, a Stepford type housing estate symbolic of all the stupefying sterility of suburbia.
Tradie Tom and his wife, pre school teacher, Gemma, are looking to …
Pedestrian but charming and disarmingly emotional, Richard Dreyfuss fuels writer director Shelagh McLeod’s feature film debut, ASTRONAUT, a poignant and heartwarming family drama about a lonely widower who lies about his age to enter a lottery for a once-in-a-lifetime chance …
Many people are taking the positive opportunity to learn a language during the COVID 19 enforced self isolation and quarantine.
Nicla Gardini’s book, LONG LIVE LATIN invites and entices you to delve into the devalued language, to come face to …
Here’s a hot tip – HOT MESS is a genuine hidden gem.
Fans of Fleabag should flock to this frank, funky and funny depiction of life’s priorities for a 25 year old antsy artsy woman, Loz, played with appreciable aplomb …
Talk about Daddy issues. COME TO DADDY is the daddy of them all when it comes to fatherhood being an unbreakable bond between boy and progenitor.
That bond was broken long ago between LA DJ Norval and his absent absence …
Readers who dismiss Peter Swanson’s RULES FOR PERFECT MURDERS do so at their peril.
This is a whodunnit wrapped in a whydunnit shrouded in a howdunnit. There is some gruesome wheredunnit and suspenseful whendunnit and enough red herrings to turn …
The best of times in these worst of times can be had in reading.
Self isolating is so much more bearable, quarantine countered, with a well told tale, and truth to tell, Tom Keneally’s THE DICKENS BOY is the just …
Send in the clowns.
If you have misbehaving children, Wrinkles the Clown will, for a fee, provide a “behavioural service” to frighten the living crap out of delinquent kids.
The genesis of documentarian Michael Beach Nichols film WRINKLES THE CLOWN …
In this time of Covid 19, of quarantine and self isolation, USE ME takes on a bizarre complexion.
Intimacy is in disintegration and virtual sex and voyeurism are elevated to a standard of normalcy. Fetishism and addiction are being redefined.…