I normally don’t like monster films, but this is not really a monster film so much as a story about people and how tragedy can bring a dysfunctional family together.

The script is quite funny and entertaining in parts, and the film has a light-hearted feel throughout most of it. I found it really enjoyable.

It’s coming into winter in Sydney and the perfect winter comfort food is lamb shanks. When it’s so deliciously tender that it falls straight off the bone, there’s nothing else that I can think of as the ideal hearty winter warm-me-up meal.

It was the feature in Bill Granger’s column in the SMH Good Living section this week, and just reading the article made my mouth water.