Arts & Entertainment Reviews
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David Brent: Life on the Road
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After so many years we still find ourselves cheering on a man who, at heart, is the ultimate dreamer. -
Rackett at Brighton Up Bar
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That night a beacon was sent out in search of some heroes, who would in turn crank the volume up to eleven and destroy all in order for total rock domination. -
Glass Animals: How To Be A Human Being
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The album is about people - mostly other people, though Bayley admits some of it is "quite autobiographical but said through the eyes of someone else". -
Cass McCombs: Mangy Love
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McCombs' work has been harrowing in the past, but it has never been as direct in its despair and even aggressive as it is here. -
Rainbow Chan: Spacings
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The record shows us that pop has become permeable - formulas unreliable - and true invention like this is a rare and beautiful thing to encounter. -
Bijou - A Cabaret of Secrets & Seduction
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This is the world of Chrissie Shaw’s Bijou, the elderly woman made famous in a series of unforgettable pictures by the French photographer Brassai. -
Crystal Castles: Amnesty (I)
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Ethan Kath has soldiered on with the Crystal Castles name and delivered another record of ferocious, noise-damaged beats. -
High-Rise
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High-Rise succeeds as an adaptation because it translates the spark of the original novel to the screen brilliantly. -
Holy Balm: Activity
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Activity has an otherworldly, out-of-time quality, but it is far bolder and more exploratory than mere retro fetishisation. -
A Nest Of Skunks
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The radio is on talk back. It immediately presents the subject of the play, A Nest Of Skunks, the political climate and the opinion of the media. -
Alex Lahey: B-Grade University
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Throughout the EP she comes across as the kind of person you'd love to be able to hang out with. -
Truman
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Do you ever just want to stay in your seat when the movie is over? To sit with your feelings for a few more moments, undisturbed? -
NAO: For All We Know
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Take it as either a recommendation or a warning - NAO's debut full-length album For All We Know has a genealogy that can be traced back to R. Kelly, Aaliyah and The Spice Girls. -
Matt Gresham at The Oxford Circus
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Making his Sydney debut at The Oxford Circus, the gig was an intimate conversation between artist and audience. -
Embrace of the Serpent
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It belongs to a long lineage of surreal and strikingly composed adventure films, but Embrace of the Serpent is filled with a venomous anger aimed at the machinations and long-lasting effects of colonialism. -
Cristina In The Cupboard
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She's lying on the floor in a sleeveless white floral summer dress and pale pink ballet slippers. Behind her is a sandpit. Above her near the ceiling swings a pool of blue water. Occasionally it lurches dramatically of its own accord. Further back… -
Arab Film Festival: Halal Love (and Sex)
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A festival favourite at Sundance, Dubai and Rotterdam, Halal Love (and Sex) allows for a peak into the lives and relationships that operate under Islamic Law. -
Tangents: Stateless
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The music on Stateless is exploratory in the purest sense of the word, evoking landscapes and shapes and even a sense of light, the colour of the sky. -
Sing Street
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Sing Street is a sublime visual mixtape of everyone's teen years, when we were all discovering who we are and who we wanted to be. -
The Avalanches: Wildflower
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Wildflower is a compulsively listenable and charmingly inventive record that serves as a reminder of why we missed The Avalanches so much in the first place.