culture
review
theatre January 23, 2021
Although Covid-19 restrictions enforce a lack of spontaneity, this year’s Sydney Festival feels like spiritual healing.
television January 23, 2021
The hit adaptation of Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton Regency romances gets everything right, almost.
film December 19, 2020
In 2020 we mostly had to watch films at home, and the most exciting possibilities still emerged from independent cinema.
art December 19, 2020
Making sense of a changing world
We must support Australian artists in their most ambitious visions to understand the seismic shifts of our time.
film December 5, 2020
For all its controversial subject matter, Sandra Wollner’s film is a smart, ethical investigation that doesn’t deserve to be banned.
theatre November 28, 2020
Behind the dad jokes, Queensland Theatre’s The Holidays is an ambitious play about family connection through dark times.
television November 28, 2020
The moments of delightful surprise in The Crown are smothered by its refusal to permit uncertainty.
theatre November 21, 2020
Returning to the stage after almost two decades, Alma De Groen’s Wicked Sisters now reads like a study of the generational failures of white feminism.
art November 21, 2020
A new Streeton retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales reveals a painter who speaks dazzlingly to our present.