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...
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...
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...
The projects and people making a difference
The Boronia Breakfast program has been running since 2021 and has provided countless hot meals to locals who need it most since then. It’s...
Melbourne Rare Book Week
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Melbourne Rare Book Week, which will start on 18 July and culminate with the Melbourne Rare...
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...
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 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...
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...
Not for the faint-hearted
What I Would Do to You, by Australian psychologist and author Georgia Harper, is an intense and confronting novel.
Despite its slow and steady...
NAIDOC Week
NAIDOC Week (7 - 12 July) is an annual event dedicated to celebrating and recognizing the history, culture, and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres...
Are Probiotics the last thing you need?
The human microbiome (HMB) is simply fantastic! It is made up from a combination of micro-organisms including, bacteria, fungi, viruses and protozoa that exist...