Recent Comments
shawjonathan on Shevaun Cooley’s Homing Kathy Gollan on Shevaun Cooley’s Homing Cathy McLennan… on Dog Ear Cafe Cathy McLennan… on Stan Grant’s Talking to… Cathy McLennan… on Bookblog #59: March is the lau… shawjonathan on Topical verse Kathy Gollan on Topical verse WP Bookblog Listing
Reading & watching- These Things are Real (Alan Wearne 2017) 20 July 2017A new collection of Alan Wearne's vernacular narratives.
- Mao's Last Dancer (Bruce Beresford 2009) 20 July 2017There's something very straightforward about Bruce Beresford's way with a story that serves this biopic well. Chi Cao dances beautifully as Li Cunxin, whose story it tells. When the defecting dancer meets up with his peasant parents after decades of separation, the operatic intensity of emotion felt completely earned.
- Viceroy's House (Gurinder Chadha 2017) 15 July 2017This made me understand the partition of India and Pakistan, and it's an engrossing story.
- Lady Macbeth (William Oldroyd 2016) 14 July 2017The Handmaid Strikes Back, in wuthering country. Florence Pugh is excellent.
- The Loyalty of Chickens (Jenny Blackford 2017) 14 July 2017Perhaps some lighter pleasures after late Judith Wright.
- These Things are Real (Alan Wearne 2017) 20 July 2017
