Jesus and the Bear Earlier this year I was given the opportunity to interview Frank Woodring, and after the initial shock and disbelief h...

A few weeks ago, as the caboose-end of the Melbourne Festival was trundling into view, I wrote a short piece for The Sunday Age addressing...

AVIARY Last night I had the pleasure of sitting a few seats along from one of the strangest audience members I've ever encountered. S...

FOLEY Michelangelo is supposed to have said that every block of stone contains a statue and it's the sculptor's job to find it; Ga...

Earlier this year Guardian film critic Mark Kermode wrote a provocative essay entitled “How to Make an Intelligent Blockbuster and Not Alie...

And that was the festival that was. Below are the winners announced at yesterday's closing night shennanigans - copy and paste job on my...

BUNNY Two guys in a pub, or a bar, or a nightclub, old mates, or maybe strangers, can't tell, don't want to give too much away or...