Melissa Barrass headed to Newtown last Thursday to review and photograph Winterbourne and Little May: Thursday night was a first for many things. A severely overdue first time seeing local Sydney trio Little May,… Read More
Milly Gill headed to Croatia’s increasingly-popular Outlook Festival. Here’s what she discovered: After travelling for over a day we felt only minor comfort in arriving at our campsite in rainy Croatia. Following the… Read More
Splitting a film’s final instalment makes perfect financial sense, but it certainly seems to be narratively damaging. As The Hunger Games edges towards its conclusion, the trilogy cum quadrilogy perhaps suffers from what… Read More
Spending Saturday night in a church might not sound like the most exciting of pastimes, but when it involves being serenaded by Melbourne-based singer/songwriter Mark Zito, better known as Fractures, then it’s actually pretty… Read More
Particle Fever delivers a front-row seat to this generation’s most significant/inspiring scientific breakthrough as it happened. No, not the invention of Snapchat, but rather the launch of the Large Hadron Collider. In case… Read More
Matt Lengren caught the Melbourne-based Smith Street Band at The Factory Theatre. Photos by Adam Davis-Powell, taken at their Manning Bar gig, two days previously: All things being equal, The Arrogance of the Drunk… Read More
The Mule is a film about a slow-witted yet impressively-stubborn man trying not to do a poo. Seriously. Even stranger is that the movie, directed by Angus Sampson and Tony Mahony, is inspired… Read More
Matt Lengren spent a frenetic Saturday evening checking out Melbourne-based Drunk Mums: I’d never been to Spectrum before and, in retrospect, it was the perfect place to see the Black Zeros, Montes Jura and… Read More
http://youtu.be/9Lb81geP9C0 Jake Gyllenhaal’s performance in the pulse-pounding new thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles has been getting plenty of plaudits, but are they deserved? Peter Watts finds out: Lou… Read More
Addy Fong reviews the latest movie from writer/director Israel Horovitz, starring Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas and the wonderful Maggie Smith: It’s always going to be an uncomfortable situation, travelling to a foreign… Read More
Christos Tsiolkas, author of award-winning novels (Dead Europe, The Slap), shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, has released his first collection of short fiction. And as… Read More