Film review: The Help

Ginger Brown Entertainment and Arts

Highly deserving of its Oscar buzz, the adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s 2009 bestseller The Help offers stellar performances, political savvy and a heart-wrenching narrative.

CD review: Kimbra

Ginger Brown Entertainment and Arts

At 21, Kimbra is young, pretty and peppy, but her music favours jaunty burlesque, cabaret and Bjork-style quirkiness, refreshingly eschewing the pop-tart mould.