Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Japanese healing fiction seems to be a new niche in publishing. Offering cosy comfort for some, suggesting wanky woke woo woo in others, I’m sure.
Forget the labelling, the marketing, any initial adverse reaction to this advertising is averted and …
Once again the Hayes Theatre punches well and way above its weight with ONCE ON THIS ISLAND.
In association with Curveball Creative, ONCE ON THIS ISLAND is a vibrant, vivid and complete joie de vivre production infused with a Caribbean …
Long live the short form fiction. Not that it shows any sign of dying, in fact it is enjoying rude health from a number of highly skilled practitioners. From a long list of eleven short stories selected from over 1,200 …
On the eightieth anniversary year of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it is interesting to reflect a third “bomb” that specifically rendered the Japanese surrender.
In the August edition of the Australian Book Review, the lead essay, Without …
Asymptotic, hypnotic, mythic, YILKARI, co-written by the prize-winning author Nicolas Rothwell and his wife, the acclaimed artist Alison Nampitjinpa Anderson, captivatingly defies classification.
YILKARI reads like a rodeo – the dust, the light, the tension, the undercurrents, the constant moving, …
Walk ins welcome. Defectors encouraged.
It’s not a shingle openly displayed on diplomatic outposts, but the traitor’s gates are always open. Then it’s a process of determining the enfumage, which in espionage parlance means a fake person or …
If there were more suicides there’d be less suicides muses Bill Murray’s character in the pooch perfect pooch picture, THE FRIEND.
Murray’s character, Walter, does top himself, and bequeaths his behemoth hound, Apollo, to Iris, played by Naomi Watts. Iris …
Accident. Suicide. Murder. There’s much room inside WHEN FALL IS COMING to accommodate a multitude of facts, fictions and suspicions.
In the light of the recent so called Mushroom Murder Trial in Victoria, there’s a certain piquancy to François Ozon’s …
In the first five minutes of THE STOLEN PAINTING, a blind dowager manages to offend Blacks, Bretons and her own brood. It sets the tone for this caustic comedy set in the arts end of the world.
André Masson, an …
It’s pussy galore on the big screen as CatVideoFest 2025 gives cause for claws a joyous, communal cinematic experience that delights audiences while giving back. Every ticket sold raises money for cats in need, for feline-focused nonprofits.
Curated by filmmaker …