Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Joaquim Dos Santos 3 Movie

Visually incredibly but spent way too much time on the set up for the next movie that the plot in this felt drawn out

Cruella Craig Gillespie 7 Movie

Teetering on enjoyable for me. Visually very fun and the dogs throughout were great, but I found myself resisting this female Joker for some reason

Templo Chris Chapple, Matt Breen, Tasmania 8 Food

This place was a food highlight of Hobart. It’s a very small venue, and more than likely you will be sharing a table with others or seated somewhere that is frankly, awkward. Yet somehow, the food more than makes up for this. Understated, but clean, bright and tasty. I also think for what you’re getting, […]

Voices and Recomposed Max Richter 10 Show

Incredible. If it wasn’t for the noisy Americans sitting next to me, I would have been a sobbing mess in my seat. Literally was crying during this concert

Vue de Monde Shannon Bennett, Victoria 8 Food

Absolutely no doubt, Vue de Monde is the best degustation restaurant I have ever been to. Twelve courses that play with flavours, textures and presentation over two and a half hours, in a glittering venue, 55 floors above Melbourne. Arriving at the Rialto towers, you travel in an elevator that shoots up like a rocket, […]

Weyes Blood Weyes Blood 8 Show

Sounded perfect but somehow and ironically bloodless? Still really enjoyed myself

Crash Site Nathan Cowdry 7 Book

A weird comic book in a nostalgic Japanese / Astro Boy / Kimba style. Violent and sexually perverse. Seems very 90s shocking

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Charlie Mackery 4 Book

A shapeless book of platitudes. Beautiful cliches that I guess are important to remember

The Heart Goes Last Margaret Atwood 5 Book

Only the first two thirds were enjoyable. The last third was awful and wrecked the entire novel Published: 2015 Completed: 21/05/2023 Pages: 306 This sci-fi novel by Margaret Atwood is a bleak and misanthropic account of a desperately destitute couple who give up their freedoms in exchange for the anodyne comfort of the gated community […]

Shazam: Fury of the Gods David F. Sandberg 5 Movie

Fluff. Entertaining enough but the characters were too annoying for me to even consider ever wanting to watch this again

The Super Mario Bro Movie Aaron Horvath 3 Movie

Visually so pretty but everything else (story, music, casting, voices) about the movie sucked

Music Has A Right To Children Boards Of Canada 6 Music

Can appreciate that this was very ground breaking at the time of release, but this lacks vitality that would make this interesting to listen to now

Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves John Francis Daley 9 Movie

Highly enjoyable visually spectacular movie. Very easy watching

Renfield Chris McKay 7 Movie

Campy, light and gory movie. Not much substance but was inoffensive and enjoyable watching Nicholas Cage hamming it up as Dracula

Pearl Ti West 4 Movie

Well produced but not enjoyable to watch

*1 Rắn Cạp Đuôi 3 Music

Clark like ambient music but more pretentious than enjoyable

The Night Safari Patrick Wolf 7 Music

So glad he is producing music again – a partial return to form

Dogviolet Laurel 8 Music

Florence and the Machine vibes. Very mellow and soothing

Fuse Everything But The Girl 3 Music

Anodyne and sleepy. The lyrics are kinda silly and the instrumentation does very little to mask this fact. Urgh

The Prestige Christopher Nolan 7 Movie

A repeated watching after many years, vaguely remembering the twist, means that a lot of the foreshadowing is very clever. However…just didn’t seem as amazing to me this time around

Evil Dead Rise Lee Cronin 8 Movie

Expertly crafted slasher flick. Not something I would see willingly but I can appreciate the craft that went into making it

A Psalm For The Wild Built Becky Chambers 7 Book

The use of “them/they/their” for the gender less main character was grating. Novel was otherwise pleasant and easy to read

Insomniac City Bill Hayes 8 Book

Very nearly considered purchasing this book club novel. A lovely perambulation through the romantic relationship memories between two writers Published: 2017 Completed: 10/04/2023 Pages: 291 This book is a non fiction account of Bill Hayes’ relationship with the city of New York and his partner, the renowned Oliver Sacks. I really enjoyed this book. Reading […]

The Butter Miracle Tour Counting Crows 8 Show

Despite not knowing anything except “Mr Jones” this was a very enjoyable gig. Lead singer was highly expressive and the band was very engaging. Overall a very accomplished set. The poetry and talent really shone through

The Binding Bridget Collins 4 Book

Did not finish. Inoffensive enough – just did not capture my interest

The Man from U.N.C.L.E Guy Ritchie 8 Movie

So much style and cool. Very fun to watch and very well put together

Red Moon in Venus Kali Uchis 7 Music

So smooth. So sexy. Kiss kiss

Memories Katsuhiro Otomo 6 Movie

An interesting enough anime that would have been spectacular at the time of its release. However I have no nostalgia attached to this and subsequently, the movie has diminished impact on me

Cracker Island Gorillaz 8 Music

Probably the first Gorillaz album I’ve enjoyed in a while. First two thirds is great, the last third not so much

Airplay Christina Gelsone, Seth Bloom 7 Show

Cute and great to watch with the earnest reactions of the mostly young audience. However I’m glad I didn’t pay for this

The Last of Us Craig Mazin 7 Television

I think the only good episode in this series was the gay one. Also the ending – while true to the game – sucked

Cornucopia Björk 8 Show

A great show; suitably quirky and spectacular. Even songs I didn’t really like were enjoyable live

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Kip Williams 4 Show

Every element of this play was excellently executed but in excess. If the production and story could have been simplified it would have been a lot more enjoyable. Instead this felt like being pelted with bricks for two hours

Under The Skin Jonathan Glazer 9 Movie

Watched when Pepper escaped from the yard, adding to the harrowing feeling. Like a modern relentless suburban and personal take on 2001 Space Odyssey

Work.txt Electric Dreams 7 Show

An inventive and fun interactive play with strangers contributing to the majority of the show’s execution https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/electric-dreams-work-txt-af2023

Hans and Gret Lally Katz 8 Show

Very modern funky and innovative staging. A predictable but still enjoyable young adult theatre experience

Hard Quiz Live Tom Gleeson 8 Show

Enjoyable and aggressively ruddy show. Great translation of the live show with some very good contestants https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/hard-quiz-live-hosted-by-tom-gleeson-af2023

The Teaches of Peaches Anniversary Tour Peaches 10 Show

Exhausting authoritative bombastic show with 10,000% energy. A two hour show with multiple costume changes, burlesque shows, incredible music and audience participation. Left feeling spent

Tiny White Lies Fiona Palmer 6 Book

A plainly written, colourless romance novel Published: 2020 Completed: 2023/02/28 Pages: 371 A very straight forward and easy to read novel about two women – Ashley and Nikki – and their relationships with each other, their children and respective partners. Despite a plot that was obvious from the very beginning, there is some enjoyment in […]

Andrew Hansen is Cheap Andrew Hansen 8 Show

Enjoyable and intimate show with some genuinely funny moments. Only bad thing was that it was probably over rehearsed and had zero audience interaction https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/andrew-hansen-is-cheap-af2023

Social Distortion, Bad Religion and Clowns Bad Religion 7 Show

Good set by Bad Religion, but found support and headliners a bit samey

Tár Todd Field 9 Movie

Really enjoyed this movie. At times it felt like a very conscious oblique intellectual exercise but after the first half an hour, opened into an intriguing multi dimensional world that allowed for lots of interesting analytical possibilities. Still mulling over it a few days after

Serpentina Banks 6 Music

Enjoyable and relatable but kinda background music. Possibly because I was work stressing

Stray Koola and Viv 9 Game

I don’t play many games, but this was so beautiful in its visual design. I loved the premise of playing as a cat and felt invested in the world that was built

The Jack In The Box Lawrence Fowler 3 Movie

Technically well shot, acted and produced. Unfortunately the story itself was predictable drivel

The Voices Marjane Satrapi 6 Movie

I am tired of depictions of violence against women. As well produced as this movie is, I didn’t see the point. Not sure it sheds any new light on mental illness or that there was any character development during the course of the movie

The Swallows Of Kabul Zabou Breitman 9 Movie

Beautiful animated movie of the tragedy affecting Afghanistan.

Ascendant Antaine Furlong 2 Movie

Actually terrible. There probably was a good movie in there somewhere, at some point, but what made it to the screen was drawn out and unfinished. Full of plot holes and annoyingly dumb. Unfortunately Australian

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Steven Spielberg 9 Movie

An incredible movie that still holds up after all this time – possibly strong nostalgia effect

The Silent Wife Karin Slaughter 7 Book

Absolutely not the sort of novel I would normally read. It was gruesomely violent but very suspenseful and exceedingly well paced. Let down by stereotypical characterisations Published: 2020 Completed: 2023/01/04 Pages: 482 Absolutely not the sort of book I would normally read. Having said that, it was exceedingly well constructed with superb pacing and plot. […]