Latest Movies & Streaming Reviews
Dinos hit the streets in ‘The End of Oak Street’, a fun Jurassic-style frolic; A new take on coupling in likeable romcom ‘One Night Only’; ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ a sufficiently enjoyable horror movie semi-satire; More of the same in ‘CatVideoFest 2026’
Snack time: Running from dino in ‘The End of Oak Street’. THE END OF OAK STREET *** (99 minutes) M It’s ...
MIFF NOTES – Look Both Ways; Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?; Replica; Rodeo Dreams; School for Defectors, Yesterday Island; The Latcher; Body Blow
William McInnes in ‘Look Both Ways’. LOOK BOTH WAYS – Revisiting this classic Australian drama from 2005 one can’t help ...
‘Ice Cream Man’ a horror treat; Nuns on the run in the warm Kiwi comedy ‘Holy Days’; ‘Super Troopers 3’ a laughless dud; ‘Young Washington’ a fine historical biopic
Hey, kids! One scoop or two?: One of the creepy stars of ‘Ice Cream Man’. ICE CREAM MAN ***1/2 (88 ...
High-swinging ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ nails the landing; VAD dramedy ‘Bon Voyage, Marie’ a touching film about a tough topic
Guess Who? SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY ***1/2 (145 minutes) M We love Spider-Man so much we collectively embrace the pending ...
Latest Video Interviews
French Impressionism @ NGV – Interview with curator Meg Slater about the exhibition (closes Sunday 5 October, 2025)
Taking a break: ‘Street Singer’ (1862) by Édouard Manet. Here’s a fun chat with Meg Slater, NGV curator extraordinaire, about ...
Vivienne Westwood & Rei Kawakubo – A brief overview of the upcoming NGV exhibition (Sunday 7 December 2025 – Sunday 19 April 2026)
Vivienne Westwood, London, 1977. Here’s a quick preview of the upcoming Westwood Kawakubo NGV show in December; includes impromptu interviews ...
NGV French Impressionism exhibition – Overview with guest curator Dr Katie Hanson from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Detail from ‘Girls picking flowers in a meadow’ (about 1890) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The French Impressionism from the Museum of ...
Melbourne homeless #32 – Sarah, 41
“I put myself here, I’m gonna get myself out of it.” A bottle of pineapple soft drink and a packet ...
Latest Articles & Commentary
‘The Odyssey’: epic theatre on an epic scale
Grand scale: The Trojans receive a gift in ‘The Odyssey’. THE ODYSSEY **** (172 minutes) M For all its mythical ...
Oscars 2026 Debrief: A Celebration of Mediocrity
Double trouble: Michael B Jordan and Michael B Jordan in ‘Sinners’. Well, our worst fears were realized as Sinners, a ...
John Hargreaves – a tribute to a great actor 30 years on
Wendy Hughes and John Hargreaves in ‘My First Wife’. However formidable their body of work may be, the measure of ...
2025: The year in film
OK remake: the unfairly maligned Rachel Zegler in Disney’s ‘Snow White’. Here be a few notes on the year’s film ...
Latest Comedy
MICF 2026 – brief notes on random shows: Edinburgh Best; Grace Jarvis; Alexandra Hudson; Scottish/European Comics; The Full Irish; Racist Immigrants
Politically incorrect: Alexandra Hudson in King of the Carpark. Despite having no brief or intention to review this year, couldn’t ...
Out of the frying pan: veteran comedian Mandy Nolan explains the motives and meaning behind her jump into politics in her new show ‘The Candidate’
“For me, this is the most important comedy show I’ve done because it brings together the story of who I ...
An unfiltered post-gig interview with Australian comedian Amos Gill: now based in the US he explains why he left, why he’s gone off doing festivals and where he stands on left-leaning stand-up comedy
“Soft-left politics with a dick joke to get a clap.” – Amos Gill on his general view about the state ...
In ‘Disgraceful’, Lucy Best recounts her naughty personal history, confronting issues of anxiety & misplaced shame; review/interview
“I want this show to be fun…I don’t want to dwell on the difficult bits but, of course, there were ...