The Latest From Joe Dolce
When Walter Tevis’s novel came out in 1983, it slipped past the mainstream media, but everyone I knew in the Melbourne chess world was familiar with it. Little did anyone at the time suspect that his fantasy of a female chess prodigy would be incarnated in the true story of the three Hungarian-Jewish Polgár sisters
Feb 06 2021
32 mins
Disappearance of Harold Holt The PM had been advised to […]
Dec 30 2020
2 mins
In August 1945 the British government agreed to give refuge to 300 child survivors of the German death camps. The dramatised account of their stories and those of the men and women who helped them rebuild lives that had known nothing but torment is a compelling testament to both the worst and best of the human heart
Dec 12 2020
16 mins
Long before COVID-19, pandemics of a far more virulent nature stalked the imaginations of novelists and screenwriters, from 'The Andromeda Strain' to Hollywood's more recent fascination with zombie hordes. In Wiltshire, with the help of Russian assassins and the Novichuk nerve agent, those fancies took flesh
Nov 29 2020
13 mins
Uncouth Bacilli as George Bernard Shaw called them. Arguing for […]
Nov 28 2020
0 mins
The critics didn't fancy 1980's 'Somewhere in Time', but audiences did. Where the solons of the stalls lost their way was in failing to understand the movie's effect on ordinary people. Working in the rarefied world of 'serious' film and theatre criticism, they couldn't quite grasp why it would become a popular cinematic phenomenon
Oct 31 2020
19 mins
Booval Tea Ladies During World War I, 35,000 returned soldiers, […]
Sep 30 2020
1 mins
St Corona Latin for Crown. Patron saint of plagues. Testified […]
Aug 29 2020
0 mins
I saw my self this morning a little way from […]
Aug 28 2020
29 mins