CARTOON: Cats win the big one
Resident Star Mail cartoonist Danny Zemp draws the result of a runaway grand final for Geelong.
What’s on in the theatres
The Bakery at 1812 Theatre presents The History Boys
The play opens in Cutlers’ Grammar School, Sheffield, a fictional boys grammar school in the...
Reader Development Roundtable
This is the first in a series of three articles by Christine Yunn-Yu Sun featuring the 2022 Cities of Literature Meeting hosted by Melbourne,...
BOOK REVIEW: The saddest children’s books
This week, Christine Yunn_Yu Sun revisits the saddest children books.
Back on January 26, 2011, I published an article titled “The Saddest Children's Books”, recommending...
FILM REVIEW: Can one half of a good movie be enough?
This week, Seth Lukas Hynes reviews Spiderhead, Starring Miles Teller, Chris Hemsworth and Jurnee Smollett
Rated MA15+
3/5
A science fiction psychological thriller directed by Joseph Kosinski,...
CARTOON: Vale Uncle Jack
This week, Star Mail cartoonist Danny Zemp gave a touching tribute to Indigenous Australian Icon Uncle Jack Charles.
Has acting dry as a desert
Dual
Starring Karen Gillan, Karen Gillan and Aaron Paul
Rated M
3/5
Dual is a sadly insubstantial sci-fi satire.
Sarah (Karen Gillan), a terminally ill woman, has herself cloned...
FILM REVIEW: Prey a pretty peerless popcorn flick
This week, Lukas Seth Hynes reviews Prey, starring Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers and Michelle Thrush
Rated MA15+
4.5/5
The fifth film in the Predator franchise, Prey joins...
CURTAIN CALL: Evening of laughs at ELT
For their spring season, ELT presented a great evening of laughs, comedy and farce.
Moon Over Buffalo a story of two actors, just ask them,...
CARTOON: Can the trees just get along?
This week, Star Mail's cartoonist Danny Zemp asks whether the new baby trees be welcomed by the long-standing 'old farts' after Yarra Ranges Council...
FILM REVIEW: 3000 years of longing equals 108 minutes of bliss
This week, Seth Lukas Hynes reviews Three Thousand Years of Longing, Starring Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba
Rated M
4.5/5
Directed by George Miller and based on...
FILM REVIEW: Next 365 Days a black hole of bland
This week Seth Lukas Hynes reviewed The Next 365 Days, Starring Anna-Maria Sieklucka, Michele Morrone and Simone Susinna.
Rated R18+
1.5/5
The perplexingly titled The Next 365...
Latest
Celebrating carers during Foster Care Week
With this year’s Foster Care Week being celebrated from September 8 to 14, agencies are encouraging the community to think about becoming foster carers.
According...
