15 Jan 2018
DON’T WAKE UP by Liz Lawler: Doctor, Doctor, Gimme The News… – Book Review
Lawler’s first novel is set in her home city of Bath and benefits considerably from her 20 years’ experience as a nurse, meaning that the medical talk sounds…
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15 Jan 2018
French Cheese and French Wine Masterclass: Fun, Food & Wine Courtesy of Valerie Henbest and The Smelly Cheese Shop – Adelaide French Festival Review
Adorning the itinerary of the Adelaide’s French Festival this year is the French Wine and Cheese Masterclass, courtesy of The Smelly Cheese Shop and presented…
15 Jan 2018
Songs And Stories Of The Paris Lido: Caroline Nin’s Life At The Lido – Adelaide French Festival Review
Songs And Stories Of The Paris Lido arrived with high expectations. It was an acknowledged success at the 2014 Adelaide Fringe and has toured widely in the…
15 Jan 2018
THE ALARMING PALSY OF JAMES ORR by Tom Lee: Another About Face – Book Review
A short story writer and academic, Lee’s first (and rather slim) novel is a crisply-written study of the plight of a titular character whom it’s almost…
15 Jan 2018
WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE CASABLANCA: THE LIFE, LEGEND AND AFTERLIFE OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST BELOVED MOVIE: Here’s Reading About You, Kid – Book Review
As the years roll by so many movies fade into obscurity, and yet somehow Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca (1942) remains untouchably beloved, and Isenberg here…
14 Jan 2018
Exposing Edith: Michaela Burger & Greg Wain Share The Love, Life, Losses And Music Of France’s National Chanteuse Edith Piaf – French Festival 2018 Review
Exposing Edith begins in 1935 with Edith and her half-sister busking on the streets of Paris. There she is discovered by Louis Leplée and invited to sing in his…
14 Jan 2018
Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains: One Of France’s Most Exciting Live Acts, Presented by So Frenchy So Chic – Adelaide French Festival 2018 Review
Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains are a four-piece band led by quirky, charismatic Frànçois Marry, on guitar and vocal (and occasional piano). Frànçois talks to…
1 Jan 2018
Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show: It’s Just A Jump To The Left And A Whole Lot Of Fabulous Fun To The Right – Musical Theatre Review
Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show has well and truly arrived as Adelaide audiences delighted in doing the Time Warp once again this New Year’s Eve. Patrons…
20 Dec 2017
ASTERIX AND THE CHARIOT RACE: Our Gaul Turns 37… And A Bit – Book Review
Written by Jean-Yves Ferri and illustrated by Didier Conrad (Orion Children’s Books), 46pp, RRP $24.99
20 Dec 2017
BUSHWICK: The Fight Goes On… And On… And On… And On… And On… – DVD Review
Co-directors Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott’s début feature Cooties was a troubled but enjoyable school-set zombie-esque horror comedy starring several…
20 Dec 2017
LIKE A BAT OUT OF HELL: THE LARGER THAN LIFE STORY OF MEAT LOAF: All In All It’s Yet Another Book From The Wall – Book Review
Rock author Wall is a goddamn writing machine, having turned out biographies on Prince, Lemmy and Guns N’ Roses in less than two years and then followed them up…
20 Dec 2017
STRANGE WEATHER: Atmospheric Pressure Rising – Book Review
On the heels of Hill’s epic apocalyptic novel The Fireman comes this collection of four chunky novellas united (sort of) by the idea of weather, or at least…