The Marrickville Mattress Poet put in an appearance as part of the Marrickville Open Studio Trail on the weekend. This homage to Magritte was part of the Fairy Alley exhibition.
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Reading & watching- Turn Up Charlie (Idris Elba & Charlie Reich 2019) 19 May 2019Idris Elba flexing his comedy muscles. 30 minutes episodes, and even the plot of confirmed bachelor DJ being nanny to a precocious 11 year old works.
- Shetland, Season 3 (David Kane, using Ann Cleeves characters 2018) 17 May 2019According to IMDB, this is season 5, but it's called season 3 in Australia. Douglas Henshall and the island landscapes are both enough to hold the eye. It looks as if the opening plot is going to last for a full six episodes, which seems a bit much,
- TV: Mum Season 1 (Stefan Golaszewski 2017) 15 May 2019A bleak portrait of a woman in grief surrounded by grotesquely insensitive relatives and a pathologically shy would-be suitor, this manages to be very funny. Leslie Manville and Peter Mullan are extraordinary as the two humans.
- TV: The ABC Murders (Alex Gabassi 2018) 13 May 2019A very different take on Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, that makes Kenneth Branagh's recent movie look even more of a waste of space.: John Malkovich plays John Malkovich pretending to be Poirot, but it's still engaging.
- Learning to drive (Isabel Coixet 2014) 13 May 2019Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley in a movie about learning to rive that inevitably echoes scenes from Mike Leigh's Happy Go Lucky, but has a very different flavour. Maybe a bit bland, but it feels deeply human, with a lot of complexity not spelled out (unusual for a US movie).
- Turn Up Charlie (Idris Elba & Charlie Reich 2019) 19 May 2019
