Food and Wine Features

Review: David

I watched David with Mr 9, Miss 6 and Miss 3 with fairly low expectations. Animated religious films can sometimes feel heavy-handed or overly earnest and

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Review: The Housemaid

Based on Freida McFadden’s 2022 novel of the same name, The Housemaid is directed by Paul Feig, best known for such movies as A Simple

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Review: Fackham Hall

I’m not normally someone to reach out for period dramas. I find them tedious to follow and the courtly ideals they espouse just don’t do

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Review: Rental Family

Rental family is exactly what you think it’s about. Brendan Fraser plays an American actor who finds himself working for an agency that rents people

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Review: The Golden Spurtle

The word “porridge” has always made me think of something simple and soothing — the kind of dependable comfort we all need in a slightly

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Review: Carol

Clever, witty and deeply relatable, Carol introduces audiences to a woman whose life has been quietly unravelled beneath the weight of loss, responsibility and unspoken grief. Carol,

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Review: Twiggy

xWhen 16 year-old Lesley Hornby from Neasden, London, stumbled into the modelling world, little did she know she would eventually reach icon status. Yet that

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Review: Wicked for Good

Wicked For Good brings last year’s first instalment to its bittersweet conclusion in John M. Chu’s stunning cinematic adaptation of the Broadway musical. With darker,

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Review: Cats the Musical

The 40th-anniversary Australian tour of Cats has pounced into Crown Theatre! As a virgin to the classic musical, I was impressed with the rich operatic

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