ABC Junior Arts Reviewer, Sofie Kerr reviews the 2011 AWESOME Festival.

720 ABC Perth put the call out for eight young bright things (aged 8 - 12) to become our ABC Bright Young Arts Reviewers for the 2011 AWESOME Festival. On Saturday 19th November, our reviewers got their ABC media passes and headed for a tour of the festival - seeing performances and installations that feature from 19 - 27 November in spots around the city.

720 ABC Perth put the call out for eight young bright things (aged 8 - 12) to become our ABC Bright Young Arts Reviewers for the 2011 AWESOME Festival.

720 ABC Perth put the call out for eight young bright things (aged 8 - 12) to become our ABC Bright Young Arts Reviewers for the 2011 AWESOME Festival. On Saturday 19th November, our reviewers got their ABC media passes and headed for a tour of the festival - seeing performances and installations that feature from 19 - 27 November in spots around the city.

The latest production of Griffin Theatre Company's 'The Boys' is a performance so disturbingly real that you're relieved when the house lights come up and you can leave.

Perth Theatre Company's latest play, reviewed by ABC 720's cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie.

If you have to take a quick crash course in thermodynamics and chaos theory before seeing a play, is it really worth seeing? It's a question that could be posed by Arcadia, Tom Stoppard's bulgingly brainy theatre piece that Black Swan State Theatre Company has chosen for its second 2012 season offering.

ABC North Coast resident arts reviewer Jeanti St Clair looks at the latest music and theatre to hit the region

There's nothing like watching someone fly through the air, land on their feet and follow it up with a classic slapstick routine worthy of Laurel & Hardy, to make you feel about seven again.

A modest show about Nyoongar identity is a comic insight into living in two worlds, says 720 ABC's cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie

In expert hands, even memory loss can be a topic for satisfying drama, says ABC 720's cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie

Sinead Mangan enjoys this whimsical fairytale, and so does her five year old daughter.

The Fremantle Candidate is a finely crafted look at one of Australia's great political heroes, says ABC 720 cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie

Signs of Life is a sign that celebrated novelist Tim Winton is prepared to take theatrical risks in writing plays, says ABC 720 cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie.

How did Oedipus become such a naughty little boy? Is it all the fault of his mother? Perth Theatre Company's latest show is an imaginative take on the Greek myth, says ABC 720's cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie

Boy Gets Girl is a suspense thriller, but it hardly explains the mind of a stalker, says ABC 720's cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie.

The Ghost's Child is a haunting story that could become a classic, says ABC 720's cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie

The follow-up to 2008's unexpected action hit is less exciting and highly preposterous but benefits from a sturdy performance from Liam Neeson.

A film of extremes - the softest, gooiest heart, the broadest almost offensive humour, the roughest romance, the most touching romance, Mental is a little bit, well, mental.

Aussie director John Hillcoat's Prohibition bootlegging drama is lifted by great production work and some fine performances.

Bell Shakespeare's performance of The School for Wives provides the perfect upgrade for a timeless story about man's thirst for relationship control.

Arbitrage segues smoothly into a psychological thriller, seamlessly weaving the financial finagling into the slow decline and fall of Robert Miller's moral universe.

Director Oliver Stone turns Don Winslow's tale of drugs, deception and decapitation into his latest gift for the big screen, Savages.

The fourth entry in the supernatural series fails to offer anything new, but there are a handful of spooky and shocking moments.

Like dreams of a life on roads, dreams that have long disappeared into forgotten landscapes, of sulphurous night cityscapes and the seemingly endless zooming along once great and much mythologized American roads like Route 66.

Ben Affleck's third directorial effort is an impressive piece of entertainment filled with tension, drama, fine performances and lots of attention to detail.

In the case of Lawless. We're let in on the birth of a legend and can take it or leave it, except that the movie is so...unforgettable.

Byron Shire musician Gyan has again joined forces with cartoonist Leunig

The famed director's Roman holiday is Woody Allen-lite, but still manages to be sweet.

As part of Ausmusic Month, ABC Ballarat takes you through 30 CDs from local artists in 30 days...

As part of Ausmusic Month, ABC Ballarat takes you through 30 CDs from local artists in 30 days

As part of Ausmusic Month, ABC Ballarat takes you through 30 CDs from local artists in 30 days...

As part of Ausmusic Month, ABC Ballarat takes you through 30 CDs from local artists in 30 days.

Far from being the over-hyped sensation, this Ballarat six piece look set to upend more than one rock'n'roll convention.

As part of Ausmusic Month, ABC Ballarat takes you through 30 CDs from local artists in 30 days

Martin McDonagh's follow up to "In Bruges" has energy and witty dialogue, but gets too weird and eccentric for its own good.

A movie about a disabled man's experience with a sex surrogate - but so much more than that! The Sessions is about an amazing man who looks for love and meaning in a life that would leave many broken.

Tony has a completely nutty brainwave and the movie now clicks fearlessly into Wag The Dog (Barry Levinson) territory and becomes more than the sum of its parts - a tense rescue thriller and a great satire of Hollywood's always tenuous grip on reality!

Managing Carmen is a light-hearted parody of football's excesses, says 720 cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie.

The supernatural romance saga comes to a conclusion and features the worst climax twist ever!

The Rumble Review, featuring grumpy old men, robots and easy pickings for a jewel thief.

So, wine as a subject is all about heritage, soil and the climate (roughly, 'terroir'), about family and honour. Oh, and wine critics and huge amounts of money. What a great setting for drama -every theme known to Greek tragedy is here in this complex, sadly elegiac movie.

The latest Bond... James Bond.

Bond. James Bond. Brilliant. Just Brilliant.

The wonderful The Angels' Share reminds us that Loach's best work is always lit with flashes of humour as well as brilliant ensemble work between actors.

NORPA boxes up 2012 with a Symphony

These wallflowers are both touching and charming in this adaptation of the popular novel.

A John Hughes-esq teen coming-of-age film where the outcasts are the interesting folk and a shy wallflower with a mysterious past can shine.

This breezy and lively musical comedy may be a bit predictable and formulaic but still manages to find the right pitch.

A teen romance, heavily influenced by the hit TV show Glee, Pitch Perfect features teams of acapella singing groups competing for the crown with some college romance sprinkled in.