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Reading & watching- ABC TV: Smother (Kate O'Riordan 2021) 10 May 2021An Irish family saga with an unnervingly familiar plot line of a man who dies suddenly leaving his wife and children to deal with financial disasters he has hidden from them, this stars the eminently watchable Dervla Kirwan, and has some beautiful coastal scenery
- Damascus (Christos Tsiolkas 2019) 7 May 2021Christos Tsiolkas' novel about saint Paul.
- Locked Down (Doug Liman 2021) 7 May 2021Chiwetel Ejiofor and Anne Hathaway, both hard to tear your eyes away from, have decided their relationship is over but they're still living on the same house because of the pandemic lockdown. And then it turns into a heist movie, or not, or what? It's great fun. It looks as if it was made for home viewing, but I enjoyed it in the cinema, and even i […]
- Netflix: Borderliner / Grenseland (Megan Gallagher 2015) 6 May 2021A wonderfully convoluted Scandi policier. A good man finds himself getting more and more deeply enmeshed in criminal acts in the interests of his brother's children. The Norwegians know how to take family dysfunction to a very high degree.
- Binge: Mare of Easttown (Brad Inglesby 2021) 4 May 2021Kate Winslett is terrific as a cop in a small community – she knows the regular offenders, she's blamed when a disappearance remains unsolved, she bridles when someone from the County is brought into help her, her teenage daughter resents her but when she witnesses a crime can talk to the resented county cop. She's as rude as Olive Kitteridge, as […]
- ABC TV: Smother (Kate O'Riordan 2021) 10 May 2021
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Moreno Giovannoni’s Fireflies of Autumn and November verse 3
Moreno Giovannoni, The Fireflies of Autumn and other tales of San Ginese (Black Inc 2018) The Fireflies of Autumn begins with a bang. To be more precise, one of its first stories is a tall tale involving a vast explosion … Continue reading
SWF 2019: Friday
I was in England when last year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival broke away from its harbourside venue, so this is my first Festival at the Carriageworks. I miss stepping out of dim rooms full of bright words into the dazzle, or … Continue reading
Southerly 75/3
Elizabeth McMahon and David Brooks (editors), Southerly Vol 75 No 3 2015: War and Peace (The Journal of the English Association, Sydney, Brandl & Schlesinger 2016) In last May’s Quarterly Essay, Blood Year, David Kilkullen quoted Trotsky: ‘You may not be interested in … Continue reading
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Rhyme #4 and Southerly 75/1
Elizabeth McMahon and David Brooks (editors), Southerly Vol 75 No 1 2015: Elemental (The Journal of the English Association, Sydney, Brandl & Schlesinger) Rhyme #4: What’s in a title (with anagrams)? Blow the wind southerly, Southerly, southerly, rattle our windows and … Continue reading
Tagged Alice Bishop, B R Dionysius, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Claire Corbett, Dael Allison, David Brooks, Dugald Williamson, Elizabeth McMahon, Felicity Plunkett, George Kouvaros, John Stephenson, journals, Kate Livett, Laurie Duggan, Moreno Giovannoni, Nicolette Stasko, Pam Brown, Roslyn Jolly, Stuart Cooke, Vivian Smith
