Arts & Entertainment Reviews

Stretching the Ensemble Theatre boundaries artistic director leads us into new territory with world premier Big Dry and a collaboration with the Australian Theatre For Young People.

The magic steals the show with plenty of playing cards flying around the screen in dazzling sleight of hand tricks, rain falling in the wrong direction, doves becoming reattached to their dismembered heads, and the ever-popular underwater safe break, to keep pulses racing.

Blastoma is a brave album, with Ngaiire's gorgeous voice navigating a terrain of sharp, rocky beats and reaching a stunning emotional apex.

The film is called Mustang for a reason; when you try to domesticate a wild horse it is only a matter of time before the horse is going to buck and break free.

Set in the 1940s, the Danish production Land of Mine is a film based on true events which brings forward the heartbreaking aftermath of World War II in Europe.

With the launch of their new single “Uniforms”, Melbourne based band Black cab brought their hypnotic, melancholy synth sounds to create surreal dreamlike soundscapes.

The Nice Guys is immediately engaging and intriguing, with a string of murders and disappearances in 1977 Los Angeles slowly coalescing into a heavily loaded murder mystery

Eagulls throwback sound succeeds better than other bands who mine the same era because they are adept at creating tension and texture with competing and complementary sounds.

A Moon Shaped Pool is a gift given without pretence, without spin and without artist commentary. These eleven songs state and explain themselves like a self-sustaining microcosm.

Florence Foster Jenkins embodied music, and the euphoric feeling she possessed when singing outweighed any form of logic.