Film review: The Midnight Sky

For a film set in space, George Clooney’s first Netflix film is fittingly weightless.

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Film review: The Godfather Coda – The Death of Michael Corleone

Don’t be fooled by the needlessly cryptic and spoilerific title. This recut has enough pomp and circumstance to be worth another price of admission. 

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What would love do?

Lyndsay Brown describes one of the hardest periods of her life: the first year of parenting a transgender daughter.

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Film review: David Byrne’s American Utopia

A message that even those who don’t know Byrne’s work can connect and rally behind. What a triumph.

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Really?

If you like his irreverent-yet-informative magazine columns and enjoyed his successful television years on Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson is a witty and amusing reviewer of…

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The Survivors

With pedigree as a former news journalist, Jane Harper never buries the lead. Her books, fast becoming the defining novels of a new genre of…

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The Godmothers

The ebb and flow of the yarn weaved and spun here by McInerney, one of Australia’s best authors at composing exquisite family dramas, takes us…

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Film review: Mank

Mank is fan service of the highest quality, made for film lovers. But does this make it a great film?

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This taste for silence

When we stop, reflect and consider human life generally, it resembles a complex tapestry of emotions, experiences, senses and events that take us to the…

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The pull of the stars

Publishers and authors are not exempt from the unknowns of 2020. Hotly anticipated new titles were pulled as global distribution chains shut down. What could…

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