Review: Michael Williams’ Mild Spectacular (in 3D)
April 8, 2012 By
He’s the Warrnambool comic you haven’t heard on radio or seen on TV! Pop on your 3D glasses – Michael Williams is worth a look.
Literary Magazine Primer: n+1
March 29, 2012 By
Fresh New York writing outlet n+1 ably (but irregularly) blows the cobwebs out of the stuffy lit-mag genre. Here’s a cheat sheet for the anti-literary magazine literary magazine.
Review: PopAsia
January 30, 2012 By
SBS’s Asian music show is a welcome way to get your Sunday-morning video-clip fix… but as a cultural expression, is it any more ‘authentic’ than Video Hits was?
Review: Panic by David Marr
December 27, 2011 By
Much more than a double-dip of previous publications, veteran journalist David Marr has revised and recontextualised his essays to map an alarming tendency in Australian culture.
Review: Sanderson Jones, Taking Liberties
April 9, 2011 By
It’s a mystery how bearded Brit Sanderson Jones’s shambling, disconnected show manages to be so funny. But it’s funny nonetheless.
Review: Father Of My Children
October 4, 2010 By
Cinema loves telling us about itself, but this moving French drama about the travails of an independent filmmaker does so in a refreshingly ‘uncinematic’ way.
Review: Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
September 13, 2010 By
Loved by Obama, hated by Oprah, America’s preeminent novelist Jonathan Franzen delves, fictionally, into family and freedom in his latest tome.
Review: The French Kissers
June 17, 2010 By
Looks like the best way to make a self-consciously quirky teen sex farce for the hipster generation is to get it made by a Frenchman, in France, and call it The French Kissers. Cue ’80s synths…
The Idiot’s Ballot Box
June 2, 2010 By
Often the most dangerous thing a politician can do is appear on television. In the lead up to an election, televisual humiliation for the vote-hungry baby-huggers will be widescreen and in HD.
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