Palazzo di Cozzo will entrance those with an interest in Melbourne history, furniture enthusiasts, and just any wog who recognises Cozzo as the face of the migrant success story.

Bebe. Zahara. Benet. An iconic name that inspires love, reverence, and tonnes of applause, but underneath the teased wigs and sequined dresses, who is the person behind the name?

My Girlfriend is the Revolution is growing pains personified.

The premise on paper is at least vaguely interesting – a high school teacher named Emi (Katia Pascariu) has a sex tape leaked online and is spread amongst the school.

Perhaps what director Alexa Bakony does best with her documentary Colours of Tobi, is making us forget that she was even there.

Director Jonathon Wysocki’s Dramarama set wistfully in 1994, tells the ever-bittersweet story of a group of teenagers, Gene, Ally, Rose, Claire and Oscar, as they have one final night together before they each part ways for college.

This is a high-risk mission, life or death, and I want to see someone’s head blow up!

As 2021 edges toward a close, it’s been a fantastic year for a relatively new scene originating from South England, with plenty of albums to warm your lockdown.

In Maid, we are enveloped in the protagonist’s scramble for all of the following: income, social security benefits, custody rights and a place to live. For the most part, the ticket to each of these is a low-paid, labour intensive house cleaning job with a lousy employer called Value Maids.

Rarely does the Australian Television industry produce something that feels so real. However, Fires is also a fascinating case study of how easy it is for good television to become bad.

Fans of Normal People, Fleabag and Marriage Story: rejoice. Your next fix of authentic romantic suffering has arrived.

It’s hard to justify watching The D’Amelio Show as mind-numbing reality television in the same way that Keeping up the Kardashians could be at its finest.

Disclosure is a confronting tale about two close couples whose friendships implode through the allegation that one of their children was sexually abused by the other.

Set in the icy tundra of Manitoba Canada, The Ice Road is a race-against-time action thriller that pits Liam Neeson not only against thin ice roads that could crack at any minute, but also corporate greed.

Fanny Lye Deliver’d is a quasi-Western set just after the English Civil War, circa 1657, in period of moral and sexual liberation, as well as barbaric violence.

The Orchard Murders does well as a standalone crime read, although I imagine loyal readers of Gott’s series would better appreciate the character development across novels.

Dating Amber centres on Eddie and Amber, both teenage homosexuals who fake a romantic relationship together at school to convince their tormenting classmates they are straight and otherwise ‘normal’.

No film in recent memory has made the experience of sitting with a knot in your stomach so enthralling and intriguing.

With this new release, Australian readers especially would do well to take a look at Seven Fallen Feathers and consider the similar atrocities perpetuated against Indigenous people in our own backyard.

A wonderfully enthusiastic and enjoyable tribute to the esoteric stylings, and wide-ranging influence, of the band Sparks.