Bonjour, friends and francophiles from around Australia. It’s coming up to one of my favourite times of the year, the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival. Australians have a real love affair with French Films and this annual festival is the biggest in […]
Prince Harry – Often Misunderstood and Misrepresented in Life Hazily observing the much-feted British royal family from these intrinsically laid-back Antipodean shores in the 1970s (my childhood years), I viewed Queen Elizabeth II and her family as being ethereally beautiful, almost perfect, […]
Do Nothing. Stay and Fight. Leave. What would you do to protect your daughters and granddaughters from being molested? This is the question at the heart of new movie Women Talking. For years the women of a remote religious colony have been […]
There was not a dry eye in the cinema at the end of new American romantic drama, Spoiler Alert. Based on Michael Ausiello’s bestseller Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies, the film is one that begins at the end, before we look back […]
The often complex web of family relationships can headily encompass an unforeseen and nuanced detour. Such truths are readily spelt out in phenomenally talented English Australian (she was born in England and migrated to Australia in 2006) author, Michelle Upton’s, soaring debut […]
The well-trodden road of marriage in contemporary Australian society (and throughout the modern world at large) is invariably intricately nuanced and defiantly complex in nature. Additionally, this time honoured institution is frequently tenuous and fraught. In short, the outer glow that many […]
My biggest fear whenever sailing was encountering a wave larger than the yacht itself. I have been lucky to avoid this by sailing on larger yachts in calmer seas. So when I first read Jessica Watson’s (OAM), book True Spirit released in […]
Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guerre; what a fabulous movie for Roadshow Films to begin the new year. I was looking forward to this you beaut movie as it was Directed by one of my favourites, English director, producer and screen writer Guy […]
American university fraternities and sororities for male and female students respectively (and some graduates) are from the outside shiny, vibrant and welcoming organisations, where a strong sense of community is developed among members and lifelong friendships are forged. The brotherhood and sisterhood […]
One of the most highly anticipated films of the year is Steven Spielberg’s – The Fabelmans. Based loosely on his own life it tells the story of Sammy Fabelman, a boy enamoured by making movies. It also shares his family life, growing […]
For a history buff like me being invited to the film The Lost King was a real treat. This new British movie is based on a true story. It tells the tale of one woman’s quest to find the final resting place […]
The reverberating immoral timbre of the human race can be cloudy, murky and depraved. Paradoxically, the moral fortitude of the same species is capable of soaring good-will and redemption. Humans are undoubtedly able to do great good in this world, as well […]
The existential bonds that transpire between a mother and child are indisputably, in the vast majority of cases, deeply embedded in the mother’s and child’s psyche forever. Veritably unbreakable (Or are they?) Such beautiful and poignant considerations are definingly, heartbreakingly and at-times […]
I love a film based on a novel and Claire Denis’ latest film, Stars At Noon, is an updated version of Denis Johnson’s 1986 Nicaragua set novel. French auteur, Claire Denis, is venturing into Graham Greene territory here – espionage and dirty […]
Bryan Hartas is one of the Forgotten Australians … but it was not always so. Until the age of seven he was loved and cared for by his mother, Alice Jean Ferguson. Bryan’s life changed when his father beat his mother so […]
Millie Lies Low is a drama comedy filmed in Wellington, Aotearoa, New Zealand. It may not carry an abundance of dialogue but this character-driven story of emotions and facial expressions says it all. The storyline holds your attention from beginning to end […]
Kinton Bay, a (fictional) town on the idyllic New South Wales coastline, like many towns in Australia and across the world, harbours a plethora of sordid and seemingly elusive secrets. These potent secrets, in addition to toxic mindsets and attitudes of folk […]
I thought that nothing could top my 2021 reading year. Yet 2022 has managed to produce a bumper crop of original and endearing stories for me to love.There were thrillers aplenty, some lovely contemporary stories, enchanting Australian rural romance and a swathe […]
Travel to a foreign locale (specifically in this instance Rome) can lead to imagining and then portraying oneself as a new person, even a better person. Further, romantic entanglements forged in foreign environs are not always as they first seem. That is, […]
In its 70th year, The Mousetrap, is the longest running play in the world. This beloved classic, written by Agatha Christie, is the ultimate whodunnit which has kept audiences from around the globe on the edge of their seats. Every time we […]
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