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Film Reviews

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

Thursday, August 18th, 2022 Film Reviews,

Sophie Hyde’s Good Luck to You, Leo Grande is that rare cinematic beast – a two-hander. The very nature of the cinema prompts filmmakers to stuff plays with extra scenes and characters when adapted for the screen. The worry is that audiences will feel bored by long conversations between two people, or miss the usual […]

Sydney Morning Herald Column

Pat Larter

Tuesday, January 26th, 2021 Sydney Morning Herald Column,

Encountering Pat Larter for the first time, people often said: “I’m sure I’ve met you before somewhere.” Most probably it was in one of the many versions of Pat painted by her husband, Richard Larter. Once seen these pictures were hard to forget. It’s not unusual for an artist to take his wife as muse […]

Film Reviews

Battle of the Sexes

Saturday, September 30th, 2017 Film Reviews,

It’s strange to watch Battle of the Sexes from an Australian perspective, remembering how we barracked for Margaret Court in her rivalry with America’s Billie Jean King. Forty years on, Margaret Court looks like the most dreadful sourpuss – an outspoken homophobe, and allegedly an apologist for Apartheid. Billie Jean King has taken a very […]

Sydney Morning Herald Column

The Public Body.02

Friday, August 18th, 2017 Sydney Morning Herald Column,

Our age is one of unprecedented permissiveness and militant puritanism. Pornography of every description is available at the click of a keyboard, small children are sexualised in a manner that would have been inconceivable to our grandparents’ generation. Yet Newton’s third law applies in psychology as well as science: for every action, there is an […]