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Album Review: The Naked and Famous <i>Passive Me, Aggressive You</i>
Rating: 5/5 Verdict: Forget the hype. It's real.
Album Review: JJ Grey and Mofro <i>Georgia Warhorse</i>
Rating: 3/5 Verdict: Uneven outing from a soulful voice
Movie review: The Runaways
Rating: 4/5
Verdict: A great looking film with a rock'n'roll vibe.
Movie Review: Tomorrow, When The War Began
Rating: 3/5 Verdict: Teen action flick deals with life and death themes
Album Review: Klaxons <i>Surfing The Void</i>
Rating: 4/5 Verdict: Doomsday message from the space age
Movie Review: Exit Through The Gift Shop
Rating: 4/5 Verdict: Enigmatic, playful, dazzlingly
Book Review: Freedom
Jonathan Franzen, the literary great who delivered award-winning novel The Corrections, reappears after nine years with a new taste of Freedom.
Book Review: The Pleasure Seekers
She's gorgeous. She's an acclaimed poet and dancer. She's been praised by Salman Rushdie and Louis de Bernieres. How astonishing is her first novel?
Book Review: The News Where You Are
If you loved watching benign British drama in the 1970s, you'll love The News Where You Are.
Book Review: Notwithstanding
British author Louis de Bernieres has set most of his stories in exotic places, but now, in this interlinked collection of short stories, he explores the exoticism to be found on his home turf.
Album Review: Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin
American pop genius of the 1960s redoes Amierican pop genius of the 1920-30s, complete with Wilson completing two unfinished Gershwin songs.
Album Review: Various <i>Wondrous Stories</i>
This is the Father's Day gift you've been looking for if your Dad looked like a member of the Phoenix Foundation back in the 70s.
Album/DVD Review: TrinityRoots <i>Music Is Choice</i>
Rating: 5/5 Verdict: TrinityRoots are back, but not in a bad way
Album Review: Flip Grater <i>While I'm Awake I'm at War</i>
Local folkie Flip Grater may hide behind a thick fringe, but she doesn't let anything shroud her hurt feelings.
Album Review: Mount Kimbie <i>Crooks & Lovers</i>
Weird and minimal electronic intrigue.
Album Review: The Magic Numbers <i>The Runaway</i>
More sublime if shapeless pop harmonies from hairy British four-piece.
Album Review: Endless Boogie <i>Full House Head</i>
Pass the Jack, old-time guitar rock jamming is where it's at.
Movie review: Going The Distance
Raunchy, but still sweet and charming light entertainment
Book Review: Mad World
Paula Byrne says she set out to write this book to redress what she believes is the misrepresentation of Evelyn Waugh as "a snob and curmudgeonly misanthropist".
Book Review: Anthropology of an American Girl
Hilary Thayer Hamann's novel, Anthropology of an American Girl, has been heralded as both the hottest book on the block and as the worst novel ever.
TV Review: Four courses of television
It's too much of a good thing as cooking shows take over the small screen, writes Sarah Lang
Book Review: Sex and Stravinsky
Sex & Stravinsky proved to be perhaps her most difficult book yet
Movie Review: Piranha 3D
As much as this crass, initially hilarious, gorefest of a film actually manages to make you care about some of the characters, it's basically on the side of the fish.
Album Review: Sting <i>Symphonicities</i>
It sure sounds like his forthcoming Mission Estate show isn't going to be quite as much fun out front as the Police reunion tour.
Album Review: Sheryl Crow <i>100 Miles from Memphis</i>
Seasoned singer-songwriter, cancer survivor and Cougar Town guest star Crow opts for a retro-soul makeover on her latest.