Posts By Tracey Korsten
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1.2KFilm & TVFilm Review: Audrey
Once a semi-successful actor, Ronnie Lipsick is now a mediocre acting teacher with a depressed husband Cormack, one daughter Norah with cerebral...
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1.8KFilm & TVFilm Review: Lee
Kate Winslet shines in this biopic as pioneering female war photographer, Lee Miller.
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945Books & LiteratureBook Review: What Have the French Ever Done For Us? Edited by John West-Sooby
COLLECTION: What have the French done for the cultural life of Australia, and more globally? That is the question addressed by the...
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1.1KFilm & TVFilm Review: Welcome to Yiddishland
This wonderful documentary celebrates recent cultural explorations into the Yiddish language.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Little Bit, by Heather Taylor-Johnson
LITERARY FICTION: art memoir, part biography, part imagination, Little Bit is a story with a third side. Told in the alternating perspectives...
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951Film & TVFilm Review: Your Fat Friend
“Just say fat. Not “curvy” or “chubby” or “chunky” or “fluffy” or “more to love” or “big guy” or “full-figured” or “big-boned”...
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1.1KFilm & TVInterview: Celeste Barber and John Sheedy
Apologising and patting her tummy, Celeste Barber opens our interview with the declaration “I’ve just had chips!”. She goes on to top...
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1.5KAdelaide Guitar FestivalGuitar Festival Review: Antoine Boyer & Yeore Kim and Josh Meader Trio
A night of musical perfection
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972Books & LiteratureBook Review: Mindhunt, by Michael Schirripa
THRILLER: From the mind of Dr. Michael Schirripa, forensic psychiatrist, comes his debut thriller that spans the globe and the dark, inner...
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1.2KArtsTheatre Review: HIGH
A sensational and inspiring piece of theatre
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688Film & TVSaxo Scandinavian Film Festival: The Tundra Within Me
Artist Lena returns to her Sámi hometown after living in Oslo for years. She comes up against resistance from those who see...
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888Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Son of Man, by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
FICTION: Written in flawless, cinematic prose, and brilliantly translated by Frank Wynne, The Son of Man is an exceptional novel of nature...
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2.8KFilm & TVFilm Review: Mr Blake at Your Service
When English businessman Andrew finds himself mistaken for a butler, he takes on the role with gusto, and finds the joy he...
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1.3KArtsPerformance Review: Jewels
A perfect feast of dance, music, and breathtaking staging.
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Suddenly Single at Sixty, by Jo Peck
MEMOIR: This inspiring, witty and at times hilarious memoir tells the story of the road from shock and despair to an unexpected...
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944Books & LiteratureBook Review: A Woman in Sardinia, by Valeria Usala, translated from Italian by Katherine Gregor
LITERARY FICTION: In this striking debut, based on a true story, Valeria Usala bears witness to an age-old story of violence against...
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1.1KFilm & TVSpanish Film Festival: Artificial Justice
In the near-future, Spain wants to replace judges with an AI program developed by a private corporation.
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917Film & TVSpanish Film Festival: The Movie Teller
Life in a small mining town in the Chilean desert in the 1960s is relieved by the joy a Sunday trip to...
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1.3KFilm & TVFilm Review: Divertimento
The true story of Zahia Ziouani, an Algerian-French teenager, living in the suburbs of Paris, who dreams of becoming an orchestral conductor.
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858Film & TVSpanish Film Festival: A Ravaging Wind
Teenager Leni and her preacher father travel around the Argentinian countryside spreading their faith. When their car breaks down and they must...
