Reviews
Matt Preston’s Plating Locally review: food tourism to tempt the eye
Matt Preston is travelling round Australia and New Zealand, hunting down the best local produce.
Phillip Philadelphia review: 'deliriously good'
A fever dream of a film, Phillip Philadelphia was one of the standouts at this year's Melbourne International Film Festival.
Whistle review: the surprisingly hopeful world of competitive whistling
Whistlers from all over the world descend on Hollywood to compete – and to lift one another up.
MTG The Hobbit set review: a tight, cohesive return to Middle-earth
The Hobbit is a small but mighty new MTG set with strong theming and a real synergy with its Lord…
Sweet Milk Lake review: dive into this queer delight
Star of stage and screen Harvey Zielinski delivers a promising debut directorial feature at MIFF.
Pokémon Pokopia Bubbly Basin review: a wonderful, watery sequel
Pokémon Pokopia's trip to Bubbly Basin is one well worth taking.
Wicker review: an inventively tragicomic delight
When Olivia Colman’s fisherwoman asks Peter Dinklage’s weaver to fashion her a wicker Alexander Skarsgård, everyone loses their minds in…
Poster Boy review: the life and death of Australian bodybuilder Zyzz
If you want to understand looksmaxxing and the manosphere, the documentary Poster Boy: Becoming Zyzz is a good place to…
Holy Days review: hardly revelatory, but sweet
Nat Boltt’s debut directorial feature sends Judy Davis, Jacki Weaver and Miriam Margolyes on a jolly Kiwi adventure
New Zealand Spy review: live and let laugh with this starry espionage spoof
Created by Paul Williams, New Zealand Spy is a spoof in the tradition of Get Smart, but this time the…