Tag: Opinion
Trap will ensnare your attention
Trap
Starring Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue and Alison Pill
M
4.5/5
Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, Trap is a taut psychological thriller about keeping up appearances.
Cooper...
Tiny but mighty
Runt, the multi-award-winning children's book by Craig Silvey, is set in the fictional country town of Upson Downs.
It tells the story of 11-year-old...
Sharing a home with adult children
Due to the current increasing cost of living and the housing crisis in Victoria, more adult children are moving back in with their parents...
Poetry is enjoyable
Do you suffer from metrophobia, a condition that sadly inflicts many people?
This is an unusual phobia that encompasses an irrational aversion and fear of...
A coincidence leads to reconnection
Dear editor,
Earlier this year my two daughters and granddaughter were visiting the Dandenongs on a nostalgic trip to see where their family lived...
Same flaw as Asteroid City
Deadpool and Wolverine
Starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman
Rated MA15+
3.5/5
In Deadpool and Wolverine, the mutant mercenary Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds), aka Deadpool, must team up...
Olympic Games
Creatures of a day! What is anyone? What is he not? A man is but the dream of a shadow.
Yet, when the brightness comes...
Excellent YA historical fiction
During the Second World War, the U.S. Army took over Arlington Hall, in Virginia, to house its code-breaking effort. The building used to be...
Global phenomenon musical SIX is landing in Melbourne
SIX
Melbourne’s Comedy theatre
Six the Musical, the global phenomenon which has taken the world by storm will open in Melbourne on 2 August.
Rehearsals for the...
Not About The Spider
Longlegs
Starring Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage
Rated MA15+
4.5/5
Longlegs is a supremely suspenseful horror-thriller written and directed by Osgood Perkins (son of Psycho star Anthony Perkins).
Set...
A dark fairytale for teens
A review of Deep is the Fen by Lili Wilkinson
Deep is the Fen, by Australian author Lili Wilkinson, shares the same setting as her...
Photography rules
"Today everything exists to end in a photograph,” Susan Sontag wrote in her 1977 book, On Photography.
Now this observation resonates more strongly than...
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Best films of 2024 list
The fact that I couldn't compile a full top ten of bad movies last week already shows what a good year 2024 was for...
