GODDESS

Domestic goddesses with the ability to hold a tune; we’ve really thought of it all. This Australian semi-musical production simply titled Goddess is ambitious, fun and has its quality moments. Stage star Laura Michelle Kelly (The Sound of Music, Wicked) is a superb lead whose musical background carries the film. She plays Elspeth Dickens, a stay-at-home mother, who communicates online with the outside world via her ‘kitchen songs’ videos. Oh, and don’t forget about her whale-admiring husband played by the one and only Ronan Keating (in his celluloid debut). Of course, the Goddess videos become viral and Dickens has a whirlwind experience of fame in Sydney. Funnily enough Internet sensation Natalie Tran of communitychannel fame also appears in this film. (SP)

**1/2

By Sophia Phan