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by Daniel Stepniak · Published 30 September 2018 · Last modified 1 April 2019
Reading Time: 7 minutesWatching the live coverage of Judge Brett Kavanaugh and Dr Christine Blasey Ford’s testimonies, and their examination by the Senate Judicial Committee, revealed just how partisan and political has become the process of appointing...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 24 September 2018 · Last modified 4 October 2023
Reading Time: 2 minutesLiane is a hugely successful Australian author of popular novels, that are unfairly derided by some as ‘mere chick-lit’. She has sold over 27 million books because she tells stories about issues with which...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 21 September 2018 · Last modified 4 October 2023
Reading Time: 4 minutes‘Vodka & Apple Juice: Travels of an Undiplomatic Wife in Poland’ – Jay Martin Jay and Tom were a young successful young professional couple working in Canberra when Tom was offered a posting...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 17 September 2018 · Last modified 28 March 2019
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf we’re lucky, we are given the opportunity to see a film that is so cleverly scripted, naturally acted and seamlessly edited that it leaves us searching for superlatives. This is exactly how I...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 15 September 2018 · Last modified 1 April 2019
Reading Time: 8 minutesWhy are we so alarmed by state of the world? Could it be that it’s simply because we’re growing older and grumpier? I certainly hope not, and prefer to think that it’s because the...
MUSIC REVIEWS / Music Reviews - Alternative
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 14 September 2018 · Last modified 19 April 2019
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOn her just released third studio album, ‘Lilac Everything’, Emma Louise’s voice does not have the clear, sweet high sound that we have come to associate with her singing. According to iTunes, after experimenting...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 14 September 2018 · Last modified 28 March 2019
Reading Time: 3 minutes‘Ozark’ is a television series about Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman) a Chicago money launder for the second largest Mexican drug cartel, who incurs a debt to his employers and consequently almost pays with his...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 12 September 2018 · Last modified 28 March 2019
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis Emmy Award winning, dark, British police drama/thriller is a cut above similar British television series. It merges English actors and London setting with Scandinavian crime-noire. Fans of Scandinavian noir police dramas will not...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 2 September 2018 · Last modified 28 March 2019
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s a welcome surprise when a film turns out to be more than ‘harmless light entertainment’. And so it was when I offered to come along to a screening of Book Club. The storyline...
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