Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story – What’s really behind our obsession with true crime?

True crime is everywhere. Turn on the TV, pick a podcast, or go on social media, and you’ll find it. Of course, there is good reason for this - we all love true crime. I’ll admit it, I’m an addict, and binge-watched Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, a 10-part Netflix series looking into the life…

ByNina Friars19 November 2022

Review

REVIEW: The Mousetrap – A masterful display of suspense, drama and craft

Is there a play more iconic than The Mousetrap? The beautiful Theatre Royal (which has had an incredibly good line-up of shows this year) played host to the opening night of the Australian iteration of Agatha Christie’s classic. The play, which takes place in the Great Hall of a Monkswell Manor in a post-WW2 Britain,…

ByKiran Gupta10 October 2022

Feature

No need to ‘iel’: the French non-binary problem

When you finally unwind after a busy semester, your mind starts to follow trains of thought that looming deadlines and dense readings would have stopped. I had such an experience recently. I was sitting at Hammersmith tube station, reminiscing about Euphoria, which I had watched during a post-exams Netflix binge. Nostalgia blended with eagerness for…

ByJules Vahl28 September 2022

Review

REVIEW: Jagged Little Pill: The Musical of the Year!

Kiran Gupta reviews Jagged Little Pill at Theatre Royal Sydney. It’s hard to imagine that a show would ever be so good that the crowd would send up to applaud in the middle of the second act. In fact, I have never seen a standing ovation at the theatre at any time other than the…

ByKiran Gupta22 July 2022

Review

REVIEW: Once – haunting and breathtakingly beautiful

Kiran Gupta reviews Darlinghurst Theatre Company’s Once at Eternity Playhouse. Over the last two decades or so, there has been a marked increase in movie musicals as film producers scramble to adapt the latest (or classic) Broadway showstopper to the big screen. It is somewhat rarer to see a movie adapted into a musical. Once…

ByKiran Gupta7 July 2022

Review

REVIEW: Nude Tuesday – hilariously unhinged, fantastically lewd and fabulous feel-good fun

Ewan Jackman reviews Nude Tuesday at this year’s Sydney Film Festival It’s impossible to prepare yourself before watching this hilariously absurd comedy. Jumping from one joke to another, Nude Tuesday (2022) holds nothing back with numerous hyper-sexual and lewd punchlines from beginning to end. The film follows the well-trodden tale of a couple, Bruno (Damon…

ByEwan Jackman27 June 2022

Review

REVIEW: Mary Poppins: A world of delight, nostalgia and family fun!

Kiran Gupta reviews Mary Poppins at Sydney’s Lyric Theatre. The last time I saw Mary Poppins, I was 12 years old. It was one of my first shows and I didn’t really understand theatre. But even then, I was amazed by the effects, the cast and the story. For children, it really does transport them…

ByKiran Gupta27 June 2022

Review

Jagged Little Pill hits the Theatre Royal this week

Kiran Gupta looks ahead to Jagged Little Pill When I saw Jagged Little Pill in Melbourne, I was astounded. It had everything you could want from a musical, a great story, great music, social awareness and most importantly, a stellar cast. Now, after a limited season at the end of December in 2021, Jagged Little…

ByKiran Gupta16 June 2022

Review

10 Films to Watch at 2022 Sydney Film Festival

Ewan Jackman talks about the best films to watch at this year’s Sydney Film Festival After a delayed and unconventionally virtual film festival last November, the Sydney Film Festival has prepared a complete return to normality in just 6 months. As Deanne Weir, the festival chair, pointed out how “storytellers kept us entertained and sane”…

ByEwan Jackman20 May 2022

Review

REVIEW: seven methods of killing kylie jenner – symbolic, compelling and an exquisite exploitation of the dramatic form

seven methods of killing kylie jenner by Jasmine Lee-Jones Darlinghurst Theatre Company (DTC) and Green Door Theatre Company (GDTC)- Darlinghurst Theatre, Eternity Playhouse. Witty, funny and compelling. seven methods of killing kylie jenner masterfully captures the complexities of being a Black woman and takes a deep-dive into racism, colourism and the commodification of Black women’s…

ByKupakwashe (Kupa) Matangira17 February 2022