Based in remote Alaskan wilderness, The Grey, starring Liam Neeson, is a brilliant survival in the wilderness film that makes recent additions to the genre feel like stories about getting lost in the supermarket, writes Luke Buckmaster.
Culture
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TV reviews
ABC1′s Woodley — the next Australian classic
In his new ABC1 show, comedian Frank Woodley has delivered something that adds heart and depth to his signature slapstick, writes Matt Smith.
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TV reviews
Starring Silvio from The Sopranos as Silvio, but not quite Silvio, new US TV show Lilyhammer is TV that isn’t quite TV. Confused? Dan Barrett explains…
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theatre reviews
Almost four decades after it began its 15 year run, A Chorus Line is still a strikingly ambitious work. Glee has bred familiarity (and perhaps contempt) of this show, a master template for crafting contemporary musical theatre, writes Jason Whittaker.
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album reviews
Sometimes, crime pays. The brilliant Old Ideas, Leonard Cohen’s first album in eight years, would never have existed if his accountant hadn’t pilfered money from him, writes Neil Walker.
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Every new public building, it seems, is a wonder of green efficiency, driving the bar of ecological innovation ever higher. But how does that theory convert into reality? asks Alan Davies.
Never-before-seen photos from the night MLK died-
The horrors of urban renewal and freeway building and the obsession with replacing “slums” with towers and “grass, grass, grass” are discussed in Jane Jacobs’ famous book The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” writes Alan Davies.
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travel
Vietnam is an extremely popular holiday destination for Australian tourists, but once they hit the city it all goes downhill. Why? One word: guidebooks, writes Tabitha Carvan.
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It’s Australian for coffee
Much to most coffee snobs surprise, flat white coffees are an Australian invention. But it seems the lil Aussie milk coffee that could has finally hit the Big Apple.
Wander China’s technicolour frozen wonderland-
Around 90% of all travel in Australia is by car. While public transport usually serves CBDs well, it’s quite ineffective at travelling across suburbs, writes Alan Davies.
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The $28m pantomime of airport body scanners
Airport body scanners have no demonstrated value, but the government is spending $28 million on them.
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We know how yoga can wreck your body. But I wonder: isn’t it more that we’ve wrecked yoga? In other words: ask not what your yoga is doing to you; ask what we are doing to our yoga, says Peter Chambers.
The divisive feminist
Inside the casas of Mexico’s drug lords
