Tag: Opinion
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...
Integrity in construction must be restored
The extent of unlawful conduct, abuse, intimidation and thuggery of the CFMEU on Victorian Government infrastructure projects has been exposed.
Shockingly, after ten years...
The early itinerant communities of the Valley
The building of the Maroondah weir and aqueduct and the Lilydale to Healesville railway in the late 1880s swelled the populations of Healesville, Tarrawarra...
The basic necessity of food
Food is a basic need essential to our survival and wellbeing and as American psychologist Abraham Maslow proposed in 1943 in his pyramid of...
Three different plays
Burrinja Theatre
Rachmaniov’s Symphonic Dances – Inventi Ensemble
Three simple notes open the famous symphonic Dances by Rachmaninov which then evolves into an unique work like...
Three amazing shorts from Poor Things director
Kinds of Kindness
Starring Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe and Emma Stone
Rated MA15+
4.25/5
The latest film from Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos, Kinds of Kindness is one...
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The final showdown
Published in February 2025, All Shall Mourn is the much anticipated third and final instalment in Australian author Ellie Marney's “None Shall Sleep Sequence”.
It...
