The story of Beatrix Potter in music
Reviewer LEN POWER enjoys a musical journey around the life and times of Beatrix Potter.
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"This was a clever and well-considered program, combining two composers who might not automatically be bracketed together, using two works from each written at close to the same age, albeit 150 years apart," writes reviewer GRAHAM McDONALD.
This year Netflix has been bleeding hundreds of thousands of subscribers, spelling trouble for the world’s leading streaming platform, writes "Streaming" columnist NICK OVERALL.
"There were 12 people on stage playing intensely complex music, yet relaxed and obviously enjoying the performance, continuously smiling and encouraging each other. This was a memorable musical experience," writes reviewer GRAHAM McDONALD.
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Movie review / ‘Operation Mincemeat’
"Eminently watchable" is reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD'S view of the new movie “Operation Mincemeat” and he's put stars where his mouth is!
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Movie review / ‘FireStarter’
Half a star from DOUGAL MACDONALD, who couldn't find a lot to like about "Firestarter".
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Concert of delicious sounds, colours and places
Music reviewer ROB KENNEDY reviews Van Diemen's Band's performance last night at Llewellyn Hall.
Director Bruce Gladwin and his cast of “The Shadow Whose Prey The Hunter Becomes” deliver a genuinely funny, acute, and thought-provoking production that also delivers an ominous and sobering message, writes reviewer SAMARA PURNELL.
As a vehicle for three strong and powerful women actors of different ages, “Three Tall Women” is the perfect choice for revealing the potential and talent of Chaika Theatre, writes reviewer JOE WOODWARD.
IAN McLEAN reviews the final concert of the Canberra International Music Festival, which he says ran from evocative to humorous and ended in joyous triumph.
LEN POWER reviews "Blue Poles", a musical salute to Jackson Pollock's controversial painting.
Reviewer DANTE COSTA salutes a "thrilling" musical journey through Europe.
Reviewer LEN POWER comes in from the cold for a concert of tradition-inspired Nordic works with unique contemporary Australian compositions about the land and its peoples.
Reviewer DANTE COSTA takes an immersive musical journey from snowy Mount Kosciuszko to picturesque Twofold Bay on the south coast.
"In the endless piles of crime dramas that have the leading anti-hero spending seasons hiding their secret from those around them, 'Barry' constantly flies in the face of the shows that inspired it," writes Streaming columnist NICK OVERALL.
Music reviewer JOSHUA DAFFERN writes that, although sometimes a little slow, “Life on Land’s Edge” was a charming and largely well-presented recount of the pole-to-pole migrations of shorebirds.
"This was a concert of sublime beauty and sublime silliness. The audience couldn't stop laughing at the final work." Reviewer ROB KENNEDY enjoys "An English Lark".
Five stars for "The Drover's Wife": "I hope movie lovers will flock to see this film. When naming the year’s best Aussie film next comes around, I reckon that it has to be in with a very good chance," says DOUGAL MACDONALD.
Movie reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD says "Petite Maman' is a "delightful, low-tension, high-intensity observation that will charm and delight audiences, played by a pair of twin sisters who gently deliver it free of adult complications".
