Asquith was an ass in Robert Harris’ latest exquisite fact and fiction weave, PRECIPICE.
It’s 1914, and the peace of the world is on the precipice. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, is smitten with a young, aristocrat, half …
Opening the Korean Film Festival in Australia is FAQ, a WTF whimsical family comedy about an overburdened elementary student, Dong-chun, who discovers the secrets of the world through a talking bottle of rice wine.
Yes, you heard right, a …
Chekov always maintained that The Cherry Orchard was a comedy. In Gary Owen’s Chekov inspired play, THE CHERRY ORCHARD, the comedy is there in spades, cutting through the calamities, easing the tragic trajectory.
Moving the setting from pre-revolution Russia to …
I don’t believe in ghosts, which, since my death, has become something of a problem. So begins Stella Prize and Miles Franklin Award Winner, Evie Wyld’s haunting new novel, THE ECHOES.
So, THE ECHOES is a ghost story, with echoes …
Underbelly Razor meets A Place Called Home, John Byrne’s sweeping novel, THE YOUNGEST SON takes the sag out of saga and with unrelenting pace and sheer page turning energy, delivers a powerhouse performance of epic proportion.
Propelled by a pacy, …
Two Bob each way is the sure bet for EZRA.
Two Bobs – Bobby Cannavale and Robert De Niro- headline this splendid story of a family dealing with an autistic boy.
Ezra is a sharp, charismatic 11-year-old whose autism diagnosis …
The thinking person’s zombie film, HANDLING THE UNDEAD is a sombre, existential, horror film that isn’t so much into eating your brain as wrenching your heart.
Putting the harrow into horror, HANDLING THE UNDEAD is remarkable for the unsettling atmosphere …
The United Nations is as much an oxymoron as the United States. Its charter, on paper, all that is good with the world, to bring countries together, to stop such a thing as another World War.
Post World War II, …
You get the impression that Osgood Perkins’ nightmare ride, LONGLEGS, is Silence of the Lambs as David Lynch may have made it.
Here we have a female FBI agent, Lee Harker, on the trail of a serial killer who seems …
