Sharing a home with adult children
Due to the current increasing cost of living and the housing crisis in Victoria, more adult children are moving back in with their parents...
Tiny but mighty
Runt, the multi-award-winning children's book by Craig Silvey, is set in the fictional country town of Upson Downs.
It tells the story of 11-year-old...
Trap will ensnare your attention
Trap
Starring Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue and Alison Pill
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4.5/5
Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, Trap is a taut psychological thriller about keeping up appearances.
Cooper...
The Olympic Games through the words of poets
Creatures of a day! What is anyone? What is he not? A man is but the dream of a shadow.
Yet, when the brightness comes...
Same flaw as Asteroid City
Deadpool and Wolverine
Starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman
Rated MA15+
3.5/5
In Deadpool and Wolverine, the mutant mercenary Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds), aka Deadpool, must team up...
Exciting entertainment
Burrinja Theatre
Helios – Wright and Grainger
Internationally award winning modern re-telling of an ancient myth.
A lad lives half way up an historic hill.
A teenager is...
Excellent YA historical fiction
During the Second World War, the U.S. Army took over Arlington Hall, in Virginia, to house its code-breaking effort. The building used to be...
Looking back at Lilydale’s ruins
On the banks of Lillydale Lake stands crumbling ruins of two stone walls, which are the sole remains of another essential building that once...
Photography rules
"Today everything exists to end in a photograph,” Susan Sontag wrote in her 1977 book, On Photography.
Now this observation resonates more strongly than...
Global phenomenon musical SIX is landing in Melbourne
SIX
Melbourne’s Comedy theatre
Six the Musical, the global phenomenon which has taken the world by storm will open in Melbourne on 2 August.
Rehearsals for the...
Not About The Spider
Longlegs
Starring Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage
Rated MA15+
4.5/5
Longlegs is a supremely suspenseful horror-thriller written and directed by Osgood Perkins (son of Psycho star Anthony Perkins).
Set...
A dark fairytale for teens
A review of Deep is the Fen by Lili Wilkinson
Deep is the Fen, by Australian author Lili Wilkinson, shares the same setting as her...
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Victorian Government ramps up illicit tobacco regulation measures
Just a week after the Star Mail delved into the issue of the illicit tobacco trade, the Victorian Government has announced its measures to...
