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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...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 20 August 2018 · Last modified 4 October 2023
Reading Time: 3 minutes In her book, ‘Eggshell Skull’, Bri Lee offers something of interest to readers with divergent interests. Those fascinated by courtroom drama will undoubtedly find the book impossible to put down, as Bri...
BOOK REVIEWS / Fiction / FILM REVIEWS
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 15 August 2018 · Last modified 4 October 2023
Reading Time: 4 minutesIAN McEWAN’S ‘ON CHESIL BEACH’ BOOK ADAPTED TO FILM ‘On Chesil Beach’ was published in 2007. Ian McEwan’s 166 page novelette (short enough to be read in one long sitting or over a...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 12 August 2018 · Last modified 2 April 2019
Reading Time: 10 minutesTHE KILLING OF MANMEET ALISHER: AVOIDABLE OR INEVITABLE? In late 2016, Manmeet Alisher, a young Brisbane singer/bus-driver was killed by Francis O’Donohue, a passenger who due to his Chronic...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 9 August 2018 · Last modified 28 March 2019
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘The Wife’ is a film based the book of the same name by Meg Wolitzer. I would be very surprised if it proved to be a smashing box office success as it is anything...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 9 August 2018 · Last modified 4 October 2023
Reading Time: 3 minutesPrior to picking up this book I had no idea that Tony Jones, the journalist best known as the host of the often controversial ABC current affairs program QandA, was also a writer of...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 1 August 2018 · Last modified 19 April 2019
Reading Time: 3 minutesCatholic Church and community leaders urge us to acknowledge the good work of Archbishop Wilson, rather than just remember him for concealing the sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy in the 1970s. Is...
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