Indigenous Australian singer and songwriter Kutcha Edwards talks to Craig Francis about his background, his career and his music as part of NAIDOC week. Kutcha also tells us about the support he has received from industry icons and some of his successes, culminating in his current major Australian tour.
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Farhad Bandesh, who spent 6 years on Manus Island after escaping war and persecution in Kurdistan, followed by detention in Melbourne hotels after being evacuated under the Medivac program, talks to Craig Francis about his many years spent awaiting his freedom. He also describes how his art and his music helped him to survive, and updates on his latest ventures
Read moreFrench drama, Haute Couture is an admittedly sentimental but genuinely charming and at times moving story of second chances and reconciliation. Set amid the highly skilled dressmakers of the elite French fashion house, Dior, the film also reveals a more working class element to the lofty elite world of high fashion that we don’t normally see. The film centres on
Read moreTaika Waititi’s previous instalment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor: Ragnarök was, at least for a while, a strikingly odd experience and refreshingly different flavour in what had become the bland cinematic equivalent of a fast-food franchise. Suddenly, droll, pisstaking Kiwi humour had entered the overblown Wagnerian Marvel superhero fantasy universe. At first, it felt quite subversive but the film
Read moreFrench film, After Blue is one of the weirdest movies of the year and one that shows that weirdness alone does not necessarily equal fascinating art or entertainment. In what might be glibly dubbed eco-feminist science fiction, it’s set in a future where humanity has fled an environmentally devastated Earth to the planet, After Blue where only women have survived
Read moreThe fun, inventive, hyper-energetic but sometimes (for adults) headache-inducing world of our little animated buddies, the Minions, continues with Minions: The Rise of Gru. This one takes us back to the mid-70 s and criminal genius Gru’s nascent years as an aspiring super villain. Here, the 11-year-old primary school student Gru (Steve Carrell) dreams of joining his heroes, a super
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