Methinks Mike Leigh is a like minded traveller with Henry Thoreau.
Leigh’s latest film, HARD TRUTHS, explores the idea that the mass of humanity lead lives of quiet desperation and that what may be called resignation is confirmed …
When a book shop owner decides to shut shop and skedaddle from Brazil during the oppressive military dictatorship of Emílio Garrastazu Médici, he gives a parting gift of a copy of The Diary of Anne Frank to one of the …
The only place to view four of the five films nominated for this year’s Feature documentary award at the Academy awards is Doc Play.
Porcelain War is amongst the five nominees, produced by Australian production company Songbird Studios in association …
Guy Pearce has been nominated for an Oscar this year. About time, too! However, I fear that the nomination is for the wrong film. As good as his performance as the scene chewing bilious buggerising billionaire in The Brutalist, his …
Olivia De Jonge, Kirsty Marillier, Contessa Treffone, Lorinda May Merrypor and Masego Pitso in Sydney Theatre Company’s Picnic at Hanging Rock 2025. Photo: Daniel Boud ©
Joan Lindsay’s classic novel PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK is set on Valentine’s Day, …
Mythic, epic, lyrical and alive, THE BOY FROM THE SEA by Garret Carr is a roiling read, rollicking, redolent and robust.
Found washed ashore in Donegal Bay like some Moses in the bulrushes, a baby, brought in by the tide, …
Too good for Oscar, THE LAST SHOWGIRL is a tight, bright, coruscating drama of dashed dreams, resilience and hope.
After 30 years as the face of a Las Vegas floor show, Shelly (Pamela Anderson) and her co-workers (Brenda Song and …
Unashamedly and unabashedly feel good, A LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA is a singularge reason to book into Europa Europa Film Festival.
The 2025 festival opened with A Little Something Extra, the highest-grossing French film of 2024, surpassing 10 million …
Her suit – Inclusion to the exclusion of bigotry and prejudice; diversity is not a perversity. It’s her shtick. It’s fully Sikh.
Her suit becomes a suite in Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa’s two toned tome, FULLY SIKH. Two toned …
Sleep mutinies. Caught in the gravitational pull of Samantha Harvey’s ORBITAL, sleep cedes sovereignty to reading in this dream like odyssey of six souls, spinning around the globe, observing both outer and inner space.
Commence this wondrous novel and you …