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Jan 28, 2025 | 
artshub.com.au | Stephen Russell
Gigging since the 1990s as a member of Sydney folk rock group Acquiesce and then, briefly, electro outfit Sorija before releasing her debut solo album, The Overture & the Underscore, in 2004, multiple ARIA Award-winning Sarah Blasko knows gigging deep down in her bones.
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Jan 27, 2025 | 
screenhub.com.au | Stephen Russell
For every triumph like Barbara Streisand inhabiting the spirit of Fanny Brice in Funny Girl or the brilliance of NWA origin story Straight Outta Compton, the music biopic route is littered with roadkill like the straight-washing Bohemian Rhapsody or offensively naff Amy Winehouse misfire Back to Black.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
screenhub.com.au | Stephen Russell
There’s a fake news take that critics are a permanently cranky lot who actually loathe movies and love nothing better than moaning about them, but the reality couldn’t be further from the truth. We’ve dedicated our careers to sitting in the flickering dark not because we think most movies are rot, but because we live in eternal hope that they are not. Occasionally, a game-changing filmmaker comes along who captures hearts and minds across the aisle.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
screenhub.com.au | Stephen Russell
This review contains a spoiler for the Severance Season 1 finale, and also contains mention of suicide. War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. No, it’s not Elon Musk/Donald Trump’s latest social-media meltdown but the doublespeak mottos of the Ministry of Truth, the propaganda factory to which cog in the totalitarian machine Winston Smith is shackled in George Orwell’s all-too-prophetic novel, 1984.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
screenhub.com.au | Stephen Russell
It’s that time of year when many of us start to slow down (though not all, we salute you hospital, hospo, retail and other assorted heroes) and quite a few of us turn to the streamers to fill our Christmas eves. Where to begin with the hot movies you might have missed in 2024? Thankfully, we watch – and review – a tonne of silver screen sheen here at ScreenHub towers, with most major Australian releases covered.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
screenhub.com.au | Stephen Russell
Whose was the original sin? While Radiohead officially denied suing Lana Del Ray over alleged similarities between their classic track Creep and her Lust for Life song Get Free, their record label did confirm that copyright negotiations had taken place.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
screenhub.com.au | Stephen Russell
The swimming club at the heart of The Pool is iconic. Think of Sydney and the sleek white lines of Bondi Icebergs, where twin saltwater pools meet the sea, will surely spring to mind. Since this thronging spot opened in 1929, thousands have made a splash here as the breakers crash over the boundary, requiring a weekly drain and clean to remove the detritus of sand, seaweed and all the rest.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
screenhub.com.au | Stephen Russell
In We Bury the Dead, Hobart is gone. Annihilated. A charnel house belching ash and fire into the sky as thick, grey smoke ensnares Tasmania. Newsreaders the world over relay what little is known about the accidental deployment of an experimental weapon carried by a passing US warship. The Australian Prime Minister is apoplectic. This is the astounding opening gambit of Zak Hilditch’s epic disaster/zombie movie hybrid.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
screenhub.com.au | Stephen Russell
Content warning: this article touches on themes of suicide and domestic violence. One in six. That’s how many Australians considered taking their own life in the two years between 2020 and 2022. The unique pressures of lockdown certainly didn’t help, but the sad fact is, that number is around where it usually is. Startlingly, according to the Federal Government’s statistics, suicide is the leading cause of death for Australians aged 15 to 49.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
screenhub.com.au | Stephen Russell
A sobering thought hovers around The Correspondent, the opening night movie of this year’s Adelaide Film Festival that will be released nationally on Boxing Day:Reporting from the chaotic edges of any conflict will never be entirely without risk. But those brave members of the press who put life and limb on the line to report without fear or favour should be protected to do so, as far as humanly possible. A pillar of democracy, it is an inviolable right that requires protection.
