OPINION

'Film fests are no place for the faint-hearted, or the polite' (The Australian, 15 June 2009)
'Face facts, beauty is in the eye of the brow holder' (The Australian, 8 June 2009)
'Casing a date lands me a 'friend' in need of my life story' (The Australian, 4 May 2009)
'Bulletproof or delusional as Y pops its recession cherry' (The Australian, 23 March 2009)
'One man's meal is another's joyful exercise in patience' (The Australian, 8 January 2009)
'There's snow reason for us to keep pretending like this' (The Australian, 22 December 2008)

THE ARTS

ESSAYS AND ARTICLES

'Days of wonder' (The Australian, 6 December 2008)

INTERVIEWS

'Eloquent apeman swings into action' (The Australian, 2 April 2009)
'Boy from bush's Hollywood kudos' (The Australian, 18 February 2009)
'Iron curtain's shadow hangs over Belarus theatre troupe' (The Australian, 7 January 2009)
'The Face: David Bates' (Review, 6 December 2008)
'Earnest not enough for pair of provocateurs' (The Australian, 5 December 2008)
'The Face: Cressida Campbell' (Review, 8 November 2008)
'His next trick is to gamble everything' (The Australian, 27 October 2008)
'Planet rings in our rebirth' (The Australian, 26 August 2008)
'The History of the Mark: An Interview with Marco Luccio' (Arts In the City, February/March 2007)

FESTIVAL AND EXHIBITION REPORTS

'That Single Thumb' (Real Time, Iss. 85, June/July 2008)
'This Is Not a Comic Book: Tezuka: The Marvel of Manga' (RealTime, Iss. 77, February/March 2007)

THEATRE REVIEWS

'Never meta collaboration so dynamic' (The City) (The Australian, 7 July 2009)
'Asian flavour does this Shakespeare few favours' (Pericles) (The Australian, 6 July 2009)
'Mild ride takes familiar path' (Savage River) (The Australian, 23 June 2009)
Venus & Adonis (Esoteric Rabbit Blog, 5 March 2009)
Baghdad Wedding (Esoteric Rabbit Blog, 27 February 2009)
The Tell-Tale Heart (The Australian, 19 January 2009)
No Dice (The Australian, 15 January 2009)
Two Faced Bastard (Esoteric Rabbit Blog/mono no aware, 16 October 2008)
The Convict's Opera (Esoteric Rabbit Blog, 12 October 2008)
Highway Rock 'n' Roll Disaster (Esoteric Rabbit Blog, 4 October 2008)
Pool (No Water)/Spring Awakening (Esoteric Rabbit Blog, 20 July 2008)
Don't Say the Words/Stoning Mary (Esoteric Rabbit Blog, 7 July 2008)
'Words shine in a timeless tapestry' (Don't Say the Words) (The Australian, 7 July 2008)
The Impotent Fury of the Privileged (Esoteric Rabbit Blog, 31 March 2008)
The Threepenny Opera (Esoteric Rabbit Blog, 11 March 2008)
Checkov Re-Cut: Platonov (Vibewire, 2 March 2007)
Tartuffe (Vibewire, 2 March 2007)
This Is Good Advice (Esoteric Rabbit Blog/Vibewire, 10 February 2007)
Crossing Live (Esoteric Rabbit Blog, 17 September 2007)
Shadow Passion/Dogs Barking (Esoteric Rabbit Blog, 15 September 2007)
Mercury Fur (Esoteric Rabbit Blog, 6 September 2007)
Easy Ryder (Esoteric Rabbit Blog, 1 September 2007)
Criminology (Esoteric Rabbit Blog, 20 August 2007)
The Eisteddfod (Australian Stage Online, 26 July 2007)
The Quivering (Australian Stage Online, 17 July 2007)
A Slight Ache (Australian Stage Online, 5 July 2007)
Wild East (Australian Stage Online, 4 June 2007)
The Perjured City Or, The Awakening of the Furies (Australian Stage Online, 2 June 2007)
fourplay (Australian Stage Online, 28 May 2007)
Checklist for an Armed Robber (Australian Stage Online, 21 May 2007)
B-File (Australian Stage Online, 11 April 2007)
Black (Australian Stage Online, 28 March 2007)
Ashes to Ashes (Australian Stage Online, 20 March 2007)
The Bald Soprano (Australian Stage Online, 19 March 2007)
Autobahn (Australian Stage Online, 20 February 2006)
Killing Game (Melbourne Stage Online, 2 November 2006)
Peepshow (Melbourne Stage Online, 27 October 2006)
Voyage (Melbourne Stage Online, 21 October 2006)
Jet of Blood (Melbourne Stage Online, 25 September 2006)
I Start Again (Melbourne Stage Online, 19 September 2006)

DANCE REVIEWS

Happy Hour (Esoteric Rabbit Blog, 1 November, 2008)
Corridor/Appetite (Esoteric Rabbit Blog, 1 November 2008)
Three/Washington (Esoteric Rabbit Blog, 17 October 2008)
The Nutcracker (Melbourne Stage Online, 20 December 2006)
apoliticaldance (Melbourne Stage Online, 12 December 2006)

OPERA REVIEWS

The Navigator (Esoteric Rabbit Blog, 16 October 2008)
The Makropulos Secret (Esoteric Rabbit Blog, 8 October 2008)
The Barber of Seville (Australian Stage Online, 19 April 2007)
Julius Caesar (Melbourne Stage Online, 15 December 2006)
Le nozze di Figaro (Melbourne Stage Online, 29 November 2006)

LIVE MUSIC REVIEWS

Light and Cello (Buzzcuts, 3 October 2006)

FILM AND NEW MEDIA

ESSAYS AND ARTICLES

'Kodachrome's demise symbolises the end of an era' (Inquirer, 27 June 2009)
'Animal death toll soars at groovy film festival' (The Punch, 17 June 2009)
'Escapist fantasy Slumdog Millionaire is a poor guide to the real India' (Inquirer, 4 April 2009)
CTEQ Annotations: 'Andrzej and Krystyna Go Boating: Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water' (Senses of Cinema, Iss. 46, 2008)
'A Certain Tendency in Videoblogging and Rethinking the Rebirth of the Author' (Post Identity, Winter 2007)
CTEQ Annotations: 'All The World's a Stage: John Cassavetes' Opening Night' (Senses of Cinema, Iss. 43, April–June 2007)
'6 or 7 DVDs: Jean-Luc Godard in Region 4' (Senses of Cinema, Iss. 42, January–March 2007)
'That's Not a Knife: Performing Masculinity in Greg McLean's Wolf Creek' (Metro Magazine, Iss. 150, 2006, p.130–33)
'A Post-Cinema of Distractions: On the Genealogical Constitution of Personal Videoblogging' (June 2006)
'The Audiovisual in Transit' (BRAINTRUSTdv roundtable, 'The Video iPod', 30 November 2005)
'A Cinema Exploded: Notes on the Development of Some Post-Cinematic Forms' (BRAINTRUSTdv, November 2005)
'Digital Histoire(s): The Cyber-cinema of Evan Mather' (Senses of Cinema, Iss. 35, April–June 2005)
'Lock, Stock and Fuji 250T' (view.finder, Iss. 145, January 2005)
'Killing the Gatekeeper: Autonomy, Globality and Reclaiming Australian Cinema' (Senses of Cinema, Iss. 33, October–December 2004)

INTERVIEWS

'The Rest is Static: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Real Time, Iss. 84, April/May 2008)
'Notes on the Death of Beauty, Art and Talent: A Correspondence with Ben Hackworth' (Senses of Cinema, Iss. 44, July–September 2007)

FESTIVAL AND EXHIBITION REPORTS

'Cinema Without Borders: The 2007 Melbourne International Film Festival' (Senses of Cinema, Iss. 45, October-December 2007)
'The Shock of the Old: Eyes, Lies and Illusions' (Metro Magazine, Iss. 151, 2007, p.32–34)
'Cinecrophilia' (RealTime, Iss. 75, October/November 2006)
'The Bleeding Eyes of a Festival Regular: The 14th Brisbane International Film Festival' (Senses of Cinema, Iss. 37, October–December 2005)

FILM REVIEWS

Solo (Arts In the City, February/March 2007)
Le Temps qui reste (Arts In the City, December 2006/January 2007)
The Proposition (BIFF World Cinema Club e-bulletin, Iss. 1, 21 November 2005)

THE ESOTERIC RABBIT/GHOSTBOY LETTERS

'Series 1: Matters of Style' (2004)
'Series 2: Matters of Structure and Narrative' (2005)
'Series 3: Audiences, Theatres and Thoughts on Distribution' (2005)

CINÉPHILIA

Seven editions of Cinéphilia: The Bond University Film Journal were published between July 2004 and February 2005: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED

'Blacktown' (2005)
'Kino-Fist: On the Film Propaganda of Sergei Eisenstein' (2005)
'"Send Your Men of Science Quick!"' (2005)
'Cyclical Narrative and the Circle in Seven Samurai' (2005)
'On the Vertiginous Dualities of Vertigo' (2005)
'The Revisionist Western Goes Bush: History and The Tracker' (2004)
'The Commonplaces of Existence: The Contemporary Australia of David Caesar's Idiot Box (1996) and Mullet (2001)' (2004)
'Go Ask Alice: Alice in Wonderland' (2004)
'Bardz N the Hood: William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet' (2004)
'Sweet Dreams: Eyes Wide Shut & Traumnovelle' (2004)
'Clear But Not So Present Filmmaker: A Self-Detonating Interview with Phillip Noyce' (2004)
'That Proud Moment of Existence: The Transcendental Pulp Fiction of Jean-Luc Godard' (2004)
'The Gospel According to Ridley: The Construction of Roy Batty as an Allegorical Christ and Thus What it Means to be Human' (2004)
'Identity Crisis: Mis-en-scéne and À bout de souffle' (2004)
'Café Americain: Casablanca and the Influence of American upon the Outcome of WWII' (2004)

LISTS AND POLLS

Senses of Cinema Top Ten: 2006, 2005, 2004
Senses of Cinema World Poll: 2005, 2004

FOOD AND WINE

RESTAURANT REVIEWS

The Age Good Food Guide 2009 (Freelance Reviewer)
Old Kingdom (The Scene, 18 July 2007)
Mirka at Tolarno Hotel (The Scene, 4 July 2007)
Laksa Me (The Scene, 28 June 2007)
The Press Club (The Scene, 20 June 2007)
Enoteca Sileno (The Scene, 4 June 2007)
Tempura Hajime (The Scene, 23 May 2007)
Moroccan Soup Bar (The Scene, 17 May 2007)
Bottega (The Scene, 8 May 2007)

LITERATURE

BOOK REVIEWS

The Grand Experiment by Anouk Ride (Australian Book Review, June 2008)
UTS Writers' Anthology: What You Do and Don't Want by Tricia Barton et al. (eds.) (Australian Book Review, November 2007)
Where Does It Happen? John Cassavetes and Cinema at the Breaking Point by George Kouvaros (Metro Magazine, Iss. 153, 2007)
Abel Ferrara by Nicole Brenez (Australian Book Review, May 2007)

POLITICAL JOURNALISM

FEATURES

'More facts, please, to fill in the big brushstrokes of broadband' (The Australian, 11 April 2009)

VIBEWIRE ELECTION TRACKER PROGRAMME

Matthew was selected as one of four young political correspondents travelling around Australia in the last two weeks of the 2007 federal election campaign tracking John Howard and Kevin Rudd. Becoming part of the media entourage, the trackers wrote one article and one blog post per day, while also podcasting from the campaign trail. Matthew travelled with John Howard in the penultimate week of the campaign, and covered election night from the National Tally Room in Canberra.

PRE-CAMPAIGN ARTICLES

'In your facebook' (5 October 2007)
'The two man alliance' (18 October 2007)
'Bones and all' (22 October 2007)
'Blood sport' (23 October 2007)
'Bright young things' (5 November 2007)
'Placido Rudd' (7 November 2007)

CAMPAIGN ARTICLES

'Pork-barreling Lindsay' (10 November 2007)
'On Rememberance' (11 November 2007)
'Failure to launch' (12 November 2007)
'Of Kelly Clarkson and fig trees' (13 November 2007)
'The caravan heads north' (14 November 2007)
'Follow the leader' (15 November 2007)
'"I'm going to miss him."' (16 November 2007)
'How's it gonna end?' (23 November 2007)

BLOG ENTRIES

'Come and see the violence' (10 November 2007)
'The loneliness of the long distance tracker' (11 November 2007)
'Matthew, lamenting' (12 November 2007)
'Tale of a morning' (13 November 2007)
'There will be blood' (14 November 2007)
'Flying home' (15 November 2007)

NATIONAL TALLY ROOM LIVE BLOGGING

'Organised chaos' (24 November 2007)
'A star is born' (24 November 2007)
'It's Bennelong time' (24 November 2007)
'The land appears to be sliding' (24 November 2007)

AUDIOBLOGGING

'Caught in traffic' (10 November 2007)
'Wireless-less' (12 November 2007)
'Everything is not good' (12 November 2007)
'Off the record' (13 November 2007)