<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Ben Sorensen]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australian Presenter, Host, MC, Comedian, and Voiceover guy.]]></description><link>https://www.bensorensen1.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:30:41 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.bensorensen1.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The End of Oak Street]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here are the essentials: Dinosaurs. Feathers. Carl Sagan. 70’s awesomeness. Ewan McGregor. Epic soundtrack. Anne Hathaway. Dinosaurs.]]></description><link>https://www.bensorensen1.com/post/the-end-of-oak-street</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a7fc34f80bc471690a6894c</guid><category><![CDATA[Movie Review]]></category><category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 01:56:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ed39c4_c165e8fe1c014fbfaec9dd78e549ba7e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ben Sorensen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[ART: The Comedy About Three Men Who Have Never Once Talked About Their Feelings]]></title><description><![CDATA[Art, written in 1994 by French playwright Yasmina Reza and now, some thirty-plus years later, making its first proper Australian tour, arrives looking like a play about a painting. It is not a play about a painting. It is a play about three men and the architecture of their friendship. And it was written by a woman, which, as it turns out, is the precise reason it is this accurate, funny, moving and brilliant....]]></description><link>https://www.bensorensen1.com/post/art-the-comedy-about-three-men-who-have-never-once-talked-about-their-feelings</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0693a57326fc782b5568de</guid><category><![CDATA[Theatre and Events]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 03:59:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ed39c4_1bf46f2ebe694908b2f96afd57b7d759~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ben Sorensen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michael: The History They Chose to Write]]></title><description><![CDATA[Directed by Antoine Fuqua and produced, pointedly, by the executors of the Michael Jackson estate, John Branca and John McClain, this is a biopic that arrives with a seating plan already arranged and a guest list that has been very deliberately curated. The question the film can't quite escape, no matter how spectacular the staging or how extraordinary the central performance, is: are we watching someone's life story, or someone's preferred version of it?]]></description><link>https://www.bensorensen1.com/post/michael-the-history-they-chose-to-write</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69e96213d06bed7d1a9f43f0</guid><category><![CDATA[Movie Review]]></category><category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:51:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ed39c4_918062e37b0f43318df04775d8947669~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_686,h_386,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ben Sorensen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alphabet Lane: Love Letters to the Middle of Nowhere]]></title><description><![CDATA[There's something both tender and faintly unhinged about the premise of Alphabet Lane . A couple, marooned in the open silence of rural New South Wales, begin writing letters to imaginary friends. Not as therapy. Not as a creative exercise. Just because what else are you going to do out there? It's a genuinely great idea. And James Litchfield, in his debut feature, knows it is. Anna (Tilda Cobham-Hervey) and Jack (Nicholas Denton) have just moved from Sydney to a remote corner of New South...]]></description><link>https://www.bensorensen1.com/post/alphabet-lane-love-letters-to-the-middle-of-nowhere</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69e5b33a5e3a88e8e09ec186</guid><category><![CDATA[Movie Review]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:22:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ed39c4_64009aaee3e14b158df30c78b62182d1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_188,h_268,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ben Sorensen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enbarr Modern Irish Cuisine in Flemington]]></title><description><![CDATA[For years “The Quiet Man” stood in Flemington as a beacon to the old world of familiar Irish comforts, but now it’s evolved into two sublime venues under one roof and very much under the one flag....]]></description><link>https://www.bensorensen1.com/post/enbarr-modern-irish-cuisine-in-flemington</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d06e6079d08557ea7e8e5a</guid><category><![CDATA[Foodie adventures]]></category><category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category><category><![CDATA[News]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:32:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ed39c4_ff0c0a9b42f44c0bb0c8373ce1ba1256~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ben Sorensen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Project Hail Mary: The Friendship That Saved Two Worlds]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are films that ask big questions about the universe. And then there's Project Hail Mary, which asks the biggest question a story can possibly ask; what does it mean to find a friend? All while set in the middle of deep space, answering it with a puppet, and somehow making you cry in public about it all....]]></description><link>https://www.bensorensen1.com/post/project-hail-mary-the-friendship-that-saved-two-worlds</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b36e4becfce39c49ab41e0</guid><category><![CDATA[Movie Review]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 02:58:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://youtu.be/m08TxIsFTRI?si=JEx-21Mi1J_lmmxd" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Ben Sorensen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine and Cheese Fest 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wine &#38; Cheese Fest Returning To The Timber Yard, Port Melbourne on 14 th March 2026]]></description><link>https://www.bensorensen1.com/post/wine-and-cheese-fest-2026</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b10b278a12938a4bceb162</guid><category><![CDATA[Foodie adventures]]></category><category><![CDATA[News]]></category><category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theatre and Events]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:03:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ed39c4_04c735d0d0d64611a873d8e69f08c7fe~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_462,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ben Sorensen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Laundromat: A Comedy. Sort Of. Not Really.]]></title><description><![CDATA[There's a particular kind of darkness that only comedy can access. Not the jump-scare darkness, not the grinding bleakness of an arthouse drama about suffering. The darkness that arrives wearing a good suit, cracking a joke, and then quietly hands you a document that proves the whole system is rigged — and has been for decades....]]></description><link>https://www.bensorensen1.com/post/the-laundromat-a-comedy-sort-of-not-really</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69af628dc674490e6e20ecb7</guid><category><![CDATA[Movie Review]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:32:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ed39c4_28cf9f29418642989092f5f804c960fc~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_825,h_464,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ben Sorensen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anemone: The Sound of a Man Quietly Coming Apart]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are films that take their time. And then there’s Anenome, which takes its time the way a man who has never once talked about his feelings takes his time; slowly, quietly, occasionally with long silences that deafeningly speak volumes. You’ve been warned. Anemone is that film deeply uninterested in your comfort. The first extraordinary thing about it is something that exists entirely outside the frame: this screenplay was written by Daniel Day-Lewis, eight years into his self-imposed...]]></description><link>https://www.bensorensen1.com/post/anemone-the-sound-of-a-man-quietly-coming-apart</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a95f07a29c2f981477f58b</guid><category><![CDATA[Movie Review]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 09:31:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ed39c4_6155448e43c6402f99708cd2340114d6~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_635,h_315,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ben Sorensen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hamnet: The Grief That Wrote the Globe]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is not a film that will grab you by the collar. It won't chase you down with a hook or dazzle you into submission in the first five minutes. What it will do — if you let it — is pull up a chair, sit across from you, and wait. Patiently. With the particular stillness of someone who has been through something and no longer feels the need to fill the silence. Whether you find that deeply affecting or mildly maddening will tell you a lot about where you're at right now, and the film has no....]]></description><link>https://www.bensorensen1.com/post/hamnet-the-grief-that-wrote-the-globe</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a8c6efffff75773ebae07f</guid><category><![CDATA[Movie Review]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:21:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://youtu.be/U1D8fSterfw?si=_4nnMcZ_xRnGnKLU" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Ben Sorensen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wuthering Heights: A Wild Ride Through Gothic Romance!]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of people in the world: those who think Wuthering Heights is the greatest gothic romance ever written, and those who think it’s a 19th-century instruction manual for emotionally avoidant chaos. Emerald Fennell’s new film politely refuses to referee that argument by tossing you onto the moors, handing you a candle, and wishing you “good luck” with your feelings and triggers....]]></description><link>https://www.bensorensen1.com/post/wuthering-heights-in-these-modern-times</link><guid isPermaLink="false">698edb36208f61f311babfc6</guid><category><![CDATA[Movie Review]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:44:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ed39c4_6434fb314e6343888d5da7cb06721684~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_630,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ben Sorensen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australian Theatres Unveiled]]></title><description><![CDATA[On at Fortyfive Downstairs in Melbourne is an exhibition by photographer Cameron Grant - Australian Theatres Unveiled...]]></description><link>https://www.bensorensen1.com/post/australian-theatres-unveiled</link><guid isPermaLink="false">698ba30c7d7145cd9e9de2fa</guid><category><![CDATA[Theatre and Events]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:43:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ed39c4_559ccd0e6fce41e09f0e89fd5c0b968b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ben Sorensen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert]]></title><description><![CDATA[Baz Luhrmann has made a career out of turning biography into fireworks. However in EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, he does something sneakier: he builds a cathedral out of sound and then lets Elvis Presley walk in and casually remind you he was never just “a legend”, but a working musician with lethal timing, charisma for days, and a surprisingly sharp wit.....]]></description><link>https://www.bensorensen1.com/post/epic-elvis-presley-in-concert</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6982b092f1094fef14ebfd84</guid><category><![CDATA[Movie Review]]></category><category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 05:21:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ed39c4_1d1c78e9d7f148e9abec5ff290bddbc9~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_768,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ben Sorensen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep Audio Meditations: the science-backed guide to guided tracks, ambient soundscapes, music and white/pink/brown noise]]></title><description><![CDATA[If your brain treats bedtime like an open-mic night (special guest: every thought you’ve ever had), sleep audio meditations can be a genuinely useful, low-effort way to downshift.....]]></description><link>https://www.bensorensen1.com/post/sleep-audio-meditations-the-science-backed-guide-to-guided-tracks-ambient-soundscapes-music-and-w</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69801fbd1dce0ff3f10508cc</guid><category><![CDATA[Relaxation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 04:42:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e52bb933ca95485daaf0a5d6e4c9a968.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ben Sorensen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience the Magic of Duck Pond: A Fresh Take on Swan Lake]]></title><description><![CDATA[What happens when Swan Lake grows, evolves and decides to sprint, somersault, and wink directly at the audience. It’s ballet’s grand romantic silhouette re-drawn in circus ink: faster, cheekier, and surprisingly tender when it counts - that is the energy and vibe of Circa’s Duck Pond.....]]></description><link>https://www.bensorensen1.com/post/tchaikovsky-walked-so-these-athletes-could-fly-duck-pond</link><guid isPermaLink="false">696d6efe3d420427946deda8</guid><category><![CDATA[Theatre and Events]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 23:46:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ed39c4_ad35d9d311834b8aaaa938a0207c04d0~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ben Sorensen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palace Hotel Camberwell]]></title><description><![CDATA[I went on an adventure to the historic and newly refurbished Palace Hotel in Camberwell and it absolutely did not disappoint….]]></description><link>https://www.bensorensen1.com/post/palace-hotel-camberwell</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6969b268294cde4c7626b968</guid><category><![CDATA[Foodie adventures]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 22:18:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ed39c4_a1f706ecaa8a457e98d52ee530dfddf0~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ben Sorensen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grill Steak Seafood Melbourne]]></title><description><![CDATA[The menu is, on the surface, what you’d expect from a restaurant called Grill Steak Seafood, but somehow the meals themselves are unexpected]]></description><link>https://www.bensorensen1.com/post/grill-steak-seafood-melbourne</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69452483a5912a76c36c9124</guid><category><![CDATA[Foodie adventures]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 05:45:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ed39c4_c4da8bc90c484375834bd70e75d9f36e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ben Sorensen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[28 Years Later The BoneTemple]]></title><description><![CDATA[28 Years Later: The Bone Temple feels less like “a movie that ends” and more like “a movie that strategically parks itself in your brain…]]></description><link>https://www.bensorensen1.com/post/28-years-later-the-bonetemple</link><guid isPermaLink="false">696872a87d3bee3fd104ace0</guid><category><![CDATA[Movie Review]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 05:39:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ed39c4_4bf59bc49d05428e9b6f75bcc2137485~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_494,h_277,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ben Sorensen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saturday Night Fever jives into Melbourne]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are two ways to stage Saturday Night Fever: you can treat it like a karaoke museum exhibit where everyone politely cosplays the film… ]]></description><link>https://www.bensorensen1.com/post/saturday-night-fever-jives-into-melbourne</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6964b7127d3bee3fd102c6cc</guid><category><![CDATA[Theatre and Events]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:43:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ed39c4_ab33191aa848439da2968b9963fdf05d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_679,h_381,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ben Sorensen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slithering Straight Into Self-Parody: Anaconda 2025]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is not a remake but a piss take and its great..... 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