Arts & Entertainment Reviews

...epic creativity and flights into psychedelia and funkiness move through the tracks. The album is all about big guitar sounds rattled off at one hundred miles an hour.

As Marguerite graces the stage, poised in her peacock feathered headdress, she begins the first few bars of Mozart’s “The Queen of the Night Aria,” the voice that is released is none other then a glass shattering pitch and at best a cringe-worthy performance.

Playwrights Daniela Giorgi and Paul Gilchrist have delivered an intensely interesting Yin and Yang combination that reaches well beyond the cursory considerations of a play about sex, liberty and the automobile.

It’s hard to dismiss music that is this openly optimistic and positive. Throughout there is a kind of spiritual largesse, with Gonzalez as the benefactor.

Love Is A Dog is the fifth studio album for Melbourne trio Tinpan Orange. Siblings Emily Lubitz and Jesse Lubritz are back again with violin virtuoso Alex Burkoy creating an album that is hauntingly beautiful and romantic.

In a fitting indication of their value for authentic musical sound and lack of fear for the quirky, parts of the album were recorded in a converted chapel in the inner north of Melbourne so that the natural reverb of the string backings could be used in the recording as is, without extra effects.

Favouring atmosphere and tension over visceral thrills, The Witch is a powerful and disturbing film about the hardships of faith and the frailty of the human condition.

You Know Who You Are feels like that comfortable band shirt that you bought 10 years ago and you always wonder if it will still fit. When you try it on, you'll be surprised at how comforting it is.

Hail, Caesar! is a film that feels like a mess, but winds up a neatly wrapped, beautifully presented package.

Set in the changing economic and social times of the 1980s, Allen wants to make the world a better place but doesn’t realise the compromises he’ll make to get where he wants.