Books, Reviews ‘The Shifting Landscape’ review: Western Victoria crime novel showcases joy in storytelling Rosemary Sorensen Crime novels are the most borrowed books in libraries. Ingenious plotting attracts readers and so too, it seems, does violence. …
Reviews, Screen Netflix’s ‘Unorthodox’: a thrilling mini-series about discovering the shape of freedom W H Chong Unorthodox on Netflix is: thrilling, surreal, fascinating, tense, tender, revelatory, exhilarating. Or, essentially, Wow! Set in the present, based on …
Books, Music, Reviews Kim Salmon and the Formula for Grunge: a fascinating read for fans and newcomers alike Tony Thompson This is the formula for a rock and roll memoir or biography: Start with the iconic moment – the day …
Books, Reviews Colum McCann’s Apeirogon review: a courageously ambitious novel of our time Rosemary Sorensen Even before the pandemic, Colum McCann’s Apeirogon seemed so right for these times, so responsive to the globalised nature of …
Music, Reviews Pearl Jam, ‘Gigaton’ review Benjamin Woods For those of us who musically came of age in the 1990s, Pearl Jam need no introduction. They were one …
Music, Reviews Hot Chip review (Forum Theatre, Melbourne) Portia Conyers-East Prior to their headline show at Victoria’s Golden Plains Festival over the weekend, UK synth-pop wizards Hot Chip popped by …
Film, Reviews Can Art Stop a Bullet? review Rhys Cavallin Can art stop a bullet? William Kelly, the star and prime focus of this film of the same name, certainly …
Music, Reviews Aldous Harding Melbourne review Shane Murphy “Show the ferret to the egg” (the refrain from last year’s The Barrel), really sums up Aldous Harding. It’s obtuse, …
Festivals, Music, Reviews Golden Plains 2020 review: the envy of all other Australian festivals Jacob Robinson With most large public gatherings increasingly under threat of cancellation, perhaps it was lucky Golden Plains was able to proceed. …
Festivals, Reviews Eight by Michael van der Aa review (Adelaide Festival) Murray Bramwell When we talk about immersive experience, increasingly we mean Virtual Reality. VR is not only the newest frontier, it the …
