Keywords: Science Fiction
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Pierce & Catherine Pierce
- 02 July 2006
Has Michel Houellebecq earned the criticism that has come his way?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Donald Russell
- 26 June 2006
Renaissance is an animated film with a conventional plot and off-the-rack characters, but the animation of the movie is a sumptuous feast.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Donald Russell
- 12 June 2006
In X-Men: The Last Stand, there is no build-up of tension, long-serving characters are treated with contempt, and the climax is a cacophony of special effects with actors serving only as props.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Besotted by books and the printed word for his first 55 years, this computer convert now finds himself getting as much pleasure from the screen as from the page.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Matthew Lamb looks at Stuart Macintyre’s The historian’s conscience.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Siobhan Jackson, Allan James Thomas
- 25 April 2006
Reviews of the films The Assassination of Richard Nixon, 2046 and Ae Fond Kiss.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Morag Fraser, Zane Lovitt, Allan James Thomas
- 25 April 2006
Reviews of the films Land Mines, A Love Story; The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; 9 Songs and Downfall.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Robert Kennedy
- 24 April 2006
The environmental lessons learned by those who live along the Hudson River in New York can be applied to cleaning up our own rivers in Australia.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brooke Davis, Elizabeth Allen, Joel Townsend, Robert Hefner
- 21 April 2006
Reviews of the books Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living; Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs; The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change; and Does my head look big in this?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Simon Caterson
- 20 April 2006
We all know about the supposedly true books that turn out to be fakes, but perhaps even more remarkable is the way fiction can somehow become fact.
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