Latest Movies & Streaming Reviews
Cruise hits big as oil oligarch in top satire ‘Digger’; Trashy fun with pop-thriller ‘Verity’; Dream building in fine French period drama ‘The Great Arch’
Reading the room: Tom Cruise rules in ‘Digger’. DIGGER ***1/2 (129 minutes) MA Swinging for the fences again, Tom Cruise ...
Terrific survival adventure with ‘Heart of the Beast’; Delightful family fun in ‘Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom’
Into the wild: Brad Pitt and Odin in ‘Heart of the Beast’. HEART OF THE BEAST ***1/2 (100 minutes) M ...
‘Forgotten Island’ a delicious, funny, brightly animated family delight; ‘Coyote vs Acme’ a gorgeous cartoon/live action winner; ‘Resident Evil’ reboot delivers top tension and loads of laughs; Ethan Hawke shines in period drama ‘The Weight’
Far from home: Two besties look for clues in ‘Forgotten Island’. FORGOTTEN ISLAND **** (109 minutes) PG To glazzies fatigued ...
‘Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger’ a superb documentary concert film; It’s passable, but ‘Practical Magic 2’ is overlong and cursed with sequelitis; Over-cooked action mayhem in ‘Runner’; Gal Gadot runs across London in nifty thriller ‘The Runner’
Brothers in arms: Liam & Noel Gallagher in ‘Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger’. OASIS: DON’T LOOK BACK IN ANGER ...
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
MIFF CLOSING NOTES A great movie buffet – just get rid of BlakTix
Tom Courtenay, one of the stars at MIFF. Another great year at the cinematic buffet was again capped by great ...
‘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 ...
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 ...