A guide for averting hiring hazards
While reading this book, I was reminded how many things I could have done better when hiring staff. While I am among those who wrote a commendation for this book, I will do my best to review it fairly.
Deeply religious memoir reveals musician’s metamorphosis
Nick Cave, ex-pat Melbourne musician and enfant terrible, has matured and mellowed.
Prurient-feeling series adds little new to the story
Netflix surely gets plenty of mileage from its true crime content. This ranges from the salacious, such as Ryan Murphy’s Dahmer, to the procedural, for instance the Indian production House of Secrets.
Glimmer of hope through memories of horror
12 October marked 20 years since bombs ripped through Paddy’s Bar and the Sari Club in Bali, killing 202 people, including 88 Australians.
Romantic reading essential for the perilous present
So what does Romanticism have to do with decolonization? Quite a lot actually, as Professor Kate Rigby argues in this book.
A summer of joy tinged by fear of end
Colm Bairéad’s lyrical Gaelic-language film The Quiet Girl unearths great emotional complexity from a relatively simple premise.
Everyone’s talking about The Rings of Power … is it just for LOTR devotees?
Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy was a towering achievement, but Amazon Prime’s The Rings of Power is perhaps more ambitious still.
Stylish remake full of twists and turns
When remaking a classic film, it is probably wise to opt for a mini-series to avoid scene by scene comparisons.
A human lifespan is nothing in the eyes of a volcano
Rarely has the numinous in the natural world been so profoundly expressed. Fire of Love’s images of slow-roiling lava lakes, of rainfalls of hot rocks, of driving torrents of scalding ash are both terrifying and awe-inspiring.
Single, middle-aged and riding an emotional rollercoaster with grace
When it started its run on HBO in 1998, Darren Star’s Sex and the City truly broke ground.
