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In Bluesfest we trust? The art, and cost, of Peter Noble’s backflip

Dec 13, 2024 | brisbanetimes.com.au | Karl Quinn

By Karl Quinn December 13, 2024 — 4.40pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In the world of music festivals, nothing matters more than trust. Artists need to know the event they’re committing to will happen. Bookers need to know the artist will turn up in good shape, and play to a standard that justifies their fee. And punters need to know the show for which they’re forking out all that money will actually go ahead.
Megan Herbert of SMH and The Age wins 2024 political cartoonist of the year award

Nov 27, 2024 | brisbanetimes.com.au | Karl Quinn

By Karl Quinn November 28, 2024 — 4.30am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When Megan Herbert got the call telling her she had been voted Australian political cartoonist of the year, she had the most vocationally appropriate response imaginable. “I didn’t believe them. I thought it was a joke. Ha-ha. I said, ‘Do you want to do a recount?’ but they said, ‘There’s no mistake, and it was unanimous.’ I was like, ‘What?
Nugget is Dead – and so is the comedy in this half-baked Christmas caper

Nov 26, 2024 | watoday.com.au | Karl Quinn

By Karl Quinn November 26, 2024 — 9.00pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Nugget is Dead: A Christmas StoryStan★★½Search for “Christmas” on Stan (which, like this masthead, is owned by Nine) and you’ll get about 150 titles, including such staples as Love, Actually, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas and Elf. You’ll also find the handful of Australian Christmas movies which Stan has turned out annually since 2020.
Move over Liane Moriarty, Australia has a new book-to-screen queen rising

Nov 20, 2024 | brisbanetimes.com.au | Karl Quinn

By Karl Quinn November 21, 2024 — 4.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When Sally Hepworth read on her local Facebook community group that The Family Next Door was filming near her house, she just had to take a look. After all, it’s not every day your novel gets turned into a TV series. But when she got there, the first thing Hepworth noticed was the truck with “prosthetics” written on the side.
Celebrities flocked to Kamala Harris, but did it do more harm than good?

Nov 6, 2024 | watoday.com.au | Karl Quinn

By Karl Quinn November 7, 2024 — 11.02am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. On one measure at least, Kamala Harris won the US presidential election by a landslide: celebrity endorsements.
The Aussie TV show that has the world falling in love with the Outback

Nov 5, 2024 | brisbanetimes.com.au | Karl Quinn

By Karl Quinn November 6, 2024 — 12.03pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Australian-made Territory has become the second-most-watched TV series globally on Netflix in its second week, climbing from its debut last week at number three and making a second-season commission almost inevitable.
This deceptively low-key film pushes the idea of ‘what if’ to the limit

Oct 16, 2024 | watoday.com.au | Karl Quinn

By Karl Quinn October 17, 2024 — 2.30am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. He Ain’t Heavy ★★★½(MA 15+) 103 minutesIn production terms, He Ain’t Heavy is ripped straight from the low-budget first-time filmmaker’s handbook: one location (an unrenovated 1960s house in rural WA), a small cast (real-life mother and daughter Greta Scacchi and Leila George, and rising star Sam Corlett), and a tight script.
Dallas with dingoes: On the set of Netflix’s outback drama Territory

Oct 15, 2024 | watoday.com.au | Karl Quinn

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Here’s a fun drinking game to play while watching Territory: every time someone says “Marianne is the biggest cattle station in the world”, throw back a shot. By the end of the first episode you’ll be as hammered as Graham (Michael Dorman), the emotionally and physically abused alcoholic son of brutal Lawson family patriarch Colin (Robert Taylor).
Memoir of a reluctant animator: Adam Elliot’s long road to success

Oct 10, 2024 | brisbanetimes.com.au | Karl Quinn

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Had he taken the number 1 tram as planned, Adam Elliot might never have ended up winning an Oscar and becoming the most acclaimed practitioner of claymation in the country. (OK, it’s a shallow pool: his second feature, Memoir of a Snail, is “only the third stop-motion feature ever made in Australia”, he says.
What making a movie about Donald Trump turned into a minefield

Oct 2, 2024 | brisbanetimes.com.au | Karl Quinn

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Ali Abbasi doesn’t want to play down the physical transformation of his two male leads in The Apprentice – Marvel regular Sebastian Stan almost unrecognisable as a very recognisable Donald Trump, and Succession’s Jeremy Strong seeming to waste away before our eyes as lawyer and kingmaker Roy Cohn as he succumbs to AIDS. But he wants to call out something else, too.