October 1, 2014
Kelpie blues
Australian Music
Laura Jean’s ‘Laura Jean’ finds the Melbourne singer-songwriter finally feeling at home
Anwen Crawford
By this author
September 16, 2014
The man in the mask
blog
Kanye West, Qantas Credit Union Arena, Sydney, 13 September 2014
August 29, 2014
Growing pains: Richard Linklater’s ’Boyhood’ reviewed
blog
Cinema is an art form uniquely bound up with the qualities of time: time’s duration, time’s passing, time’s continuities and its elisions. There is the time it takes to make a film and the time it takes to watch it — and, most interestingly, the …
September 1, 2014
Mr Nice Guy
Pop music
The everyman charm of Justin Timberlake
August 21, 2014
A fraction of the Hole: Courtney Love, Festival Hall, Melbourne, 16/8/14
blog
I never thought that watching Courtney Love would be boring. The woman is a born agitator, and one of the most divisive figures that rock ’n’ roll has ever produced. Her fans are loyal and fiercely protective; her detractors, of whom there are many, …
August 14, 2014
Walled in
Film criticism
A review of Clio Barnard's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's "The Selfish Giant"
July 30, 2014
Motion pictures
blog
Cycling through cinema
July 28, 2014
Cold wars
blog
A review of Snowpiercer
August 1, 2014
Orange Is the New Black (Season two)
Netflix; Foxtel Showcase
August 1, 2014
Ghosts of R&B past
Music
Timbaland and Boyz II Men haunt FKA Twigs’ ‘LP1’ and How To Dress Well’s ‘What Is This Heart?’
July 1, 2014
What the future sounded like
Music
1994 might be one of the best years popular music has ever had
June 10, 2014
Review: Pet Shop Boys in Concert
blog
Pet Shop Boys are unusual. A pokerfaced parody of a pop band who happen to write brilliant pop music, they have achieved commercial success on a level that most bands can only dream about, while sidestepping the constrictions of celebrity. You might just …