Posts By Rebecca Wu
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457Film & TVBritish Film Festival: The North
Two estranged friends. Six hundred kilometres. One unforgettable journey.
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273Film & TVBritish Film Festival: The Choral
Yorkshire, 1916. As war ravages the English countryside and strips small towns of their men, the local choral society faces near collapse.
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447ArtsOzAsia Festival Review: Embarking on a Drift to the Unknown
Completely engrossing, Cheng Shih-Yung has mastered this performance
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276Books & LiteratureBook Review: Song of a Blackbird, by Maria van Lieshout
GRAPHIC NOVEL: Fictionalised but based on true events, Song of a Blackbird has two intertwined timelines: one is a modern-day family drama,...
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751ArtsTheatre Review: Radium Girls
The play did a brilliant job of emphasising a message that is still relevant today, highlighting how corporations continue to place profit...
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416EntertainmentOzAsia Festival Review: Searching Blue
An interesting concept that makes you feel as though you’re in your own bubble while still part of the streetscape
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667Books & LiteratureBook Review: An Indigenous South, by Peter Monteath and Matthew P. Fitzpatrick
NON-FICTION: As it documents the astounding cultural wealth and complexity of Indigenous peoples under siege, it also lays bare the grim logic...
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1.4KFilm & TVFilm Review: The Travellers
Stage designer Stephen's homecoming to Australia for his mother's final days is marred by family turmoil, confronting issues of ageing, and romantic...
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450Books & LiteratureBook Review: The New Age of Sexism, by Laura Bates
NON-FICTION: AI is here, bringing a seismic shift in the way our society operates. Might this mean a future reimagined on equitable...
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Frog: The Secret Diary of a Paramedic, by Sally Gould
NON-FICTION: Based on years of meticulously kept journals, Frog is an intimate look at the human cost of the job and the...
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560Books & LiteratureBook Review: Cold War in a Hot Kitchen, by Margaret Ann Spence
MEMOIR: Melbourne, Australia, the 1950s: Boring? Absolutely not! This memoir of the Cold War years explores the price women paid for political...
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644Film & TVFilm Review: Bride Hard
When a mercenary group takes a lavish wedding hostage, they have no idea what they are in for as the maid of...
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743Books & LiteratureBook Review: Plastic Budgie, by Olivia De Zilva
NON-FICTION: Olivia De Zilva's Plastic Budgie is a brutally funny and inventive debut about family and self, full of itchy Y2K nostalgia,...
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701Books & LiteratureBook Review: This Dream Will Devour Us, by Emma Clancey
YA FANTASY: An intoxicating mix of magic and the machinations of the rich and powerful creates a compulsive, bingeable read for readers...
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658Film & TVHSBC Spanish Film Festival: Sumana Sunrise
Two couples are celebrating their 20 year anniversaries at a resort in the Dominican Republic. But events soon take an unexpected and...
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557Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Question of Palestine, by Edward Said
NON-FICTION: For anyone interested in this region and its future, The Question of Palestine remains the most useful and authoritative account available.
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554Books & LiteratureBook Review: Carbon: The Book of Life, by Paul Hawken
NON-FICTION: In this stirring, hopeful and deeply humane book, Paul Hawken illuminates the omnipresence of this life-giving element and the possibilities it...
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420Cabaret FringeCabaret Fringe Review: Queen – A Night at the Cabaret Opera
Dr H creates the type of atmosphere that gets everyone involved – you have no choice but to enjoy yourself!
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819Books & LiteratureBook Review: Warra Warra Wai, by Darren Rix and Craig Cormick
NON-FICTION: For the first time, the First Nations story of Cook’s arrival, and what blackfellas want everyone to know about the coming...
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824Film & TVGerman Film Festival: Long Story Short
This funny and poignant film follows a group of friends through several special occasions.
