by Dave Bradley | Dec 20, 2017 | DVDs, Reviews
Defiant Screen Entertainment, MA, 84 Mins Co-directors Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott’s début feature Cooties was a troubled but enjoyable school-set zombie-esque horror comedy starring several players you’d have thought would never be caught dead in such material,...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 20, 2017 | Book, Books, Reviews
Mick Wall (Hachette Australia), 310pp, RRP $32.99 Rock author Wall is a goddamn writing machine, having turned out biographies on Prince, Lemmy and Guns N’ Roses in less than two years and then followed them up with this, a pretty illuminating study of the life and...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 20, 2017 | Book, Books, Reviews
Joe Hill (Hachette Australia), 432pp, RRP $29.99 On the heels of Hill’s epic apocalyptic novel The Fireman comes this collection of four chunky novellas united (sort of) by the idea of weather, or at least meteorological events we don’t – or can’t –...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 20, 2017 | Book, Books, Reviews
Written by Jean-Yves Ferri and illustrated by Didier Conrad (Orion Children’s Books), 46pp, RRP $24.99 René Goscinny and Albert(o) Uderzo’s names still appear at the top of each new Asterix adventure, even though Goscinny died in 1977, Uderzo wrote the stories solo...
by Michael Coghlan | Dec 15, 2017 | Burlesque, Cabaret, Circus & Physical Theatre, Reviews
Space Theatre, Thu 14 Dec. Is it a bar? An arena? A nightclub? A circus tent? Maybe a concert hall? Or even a theatre? Club Swizzle is a little of all of these. As audience members wander in to Space Theatre, they try to get their bearings and decide where to sit;...