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May, 2022
Present indicative: Daniel Johns’ ‘FutureNever’
The former Silverchair frontman’s second solo album lacks cohesion, but affords him space to excavate his past
May, 2022
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, returns to Baltimore for a present-day examination of rapacious police corruption
May, 2022
Robert Lukins’ second novel takes a Brisbane woman to Nebraska, where an inheritance sparks a change in character as well as in fortune
May, 2022
One small step: ‘Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood’ and ‘Deep Water’
Richard Linklater’s rotoscoped film evokes the optimism of late-1960s America, while Patricia Highsmith’s thriller gets another disappointing adaptation
May, 2022
Ghost notes: Simon Tedeschi’s ‘Fugitive’
A virtuoso memoir of music and trauma, and his experiences as a child prodigy, from the acclaimed Australian pianist
May, 2022
The quip and the dead: Steve Toltz’s ‘Here Goes Nothing’
A bleakly satirical look at death and the afterlife from the wisecracking author of ‘A Fraction of the Whole’
May, 2022
ANAM Set and music in lockdown
The project that commissioned 67 Australian composers to write for each of Australian National Academy of Music’s musicians in lockdown
April, 2022
Temporal probe: ‘Shining Girls’
Elisabeth Moss is exceptional in time-travelling drama ‘Shining Girls’, while absurd comedy ‘Killing It’ reveals Australian Claudia O’Doherty as a comic force
April, 2022
Matt Reeves’s blockbuster is the best Batman film yet
Concentrated on Robert Pattinson’s psychologically coherent caped crusader, ‘The Batman’ is a cautionary tale about state failure
April, 2022
Ben Lawrence’s documentary probes the family battle to save Julian Assange