To Critique, Inform, Challenge and Entertain
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 15 June 2018 · Last modified 4 October 2023
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘The President is Missing’ is a recently published 513 page novel authored by Bill Clinton and James Patterson. While this is former US President Clinton’s first novel, James Patterson is a prolific American author...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 14 June 2018 · Last modified 28 March 2019
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘Calvary’ is a beautiful, wise, funny and sad film, set in a picturesque sea-side town in Ireland. This 2014 Irish production is exceptional in that it succeeds to both entertain and challenge our thinking...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 3 June 2018 · Last modified 28 March 2019
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘The Bookshop’ is a film that is different in a number of significant ways. While this makes it more memorable, it also makes it less sugar-coated. It most certainly is not a Hollywood movie....
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 26 May 2018 · Last modified 28 March 2019
Reading Time: < 1 minute‘Loveless’ is a custody battle film with a twist – neither of the parents wants their 12 year old son. Set in contemporary Russia, this excellent Russian Arthouse film presents modern Russia without the...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 11 May 2018 · Last modified 1 April 2019
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn today’s ‘Guardian Australia’, Australian Medical Association president, Dr Michael Gannon, is reported commenting on Dr Goodall’s death in Switzerland, saying that he was concerned that the “suicide of someone who’s aged 100” was...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 9 May 2018 · Last modified 28 March 2019
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe High Court has just found Katy Gallagher to be ineligible to sit as a federal parliamentarian. At least four others are now almost certain to follow. I have harped on this endlessly, but...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 7 May 2018 · Last modified 28 March 2019
Reading Time: 3 minutesWilling to settle for a quiet Sunday night movie about a Swiss professor who breaks out of his staid routine and has a life changing experience, we ended up with so much more, watching...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 2 May 2018 · Last modified 1 April 2019
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn a directions hearing this morning, Victorian County Court Judge Sue Pullen and the parties agreed that the charges on which Cardinal Pell was committed to stand trial be split and addressed in two...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 1 May 2018 · Last modified 1 April 2019
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday, Victorian Magistrate Belinda Wallington committed Cardinal George Pell to stand trial on a number of child sex offence charges, while also ruling that there was insufficient evidence for him to stand trial on...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 30 April 2018 · Last modified 28 March 2019
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis charming 2018 British comedy/drama, set during and but largely immediately after World War II, is based on a 2008 novel of the same name, written by Mary Anne Shaffer and Annie Barrows. This...
Categories & Archive