FRANCESCA RUDKIN: Movies
Logan - the latest Wolverine film - FranceAsca’s verdict: 4 out of 5

The Innocents - Based on a true story from post-World War II Poland - Francesca’s verdict: 4 out of 5

NICI WICKES: Food
Preserving fruit! A little effort now can be such a joy in the depths of winter and how it doesn’t have to mean hours of work in a hot kitchen. A brief session can result in some lovely jars of fruit and at this stage of the fruit season, people are giving away fruit so it’s a great time to bottle it. Preserving recipes are on our website but for more inspiration visit http://www.niciwickes.com/ or her Facebook pagehttps://www.facebook.com/#!/niciwickes

LYNDA HALLINAN: Gardening
It might officially be autumn, but let's pretend it's still summer. If you want to extend your salad green crops until winter, it's not too late to plant and sow most varieties.

1. Lettuces actually prefer the cooler days of autumn to the heat of summer. Sow direct in seed trays for transplanting in 3-4 weeks, or buy punnets of seedlings from garden centres and save yourself a month's work. Generally, the red-leafed varieties are more cold-hardy as the weather cools. Also, if you're a fan of old-style Iceberg, you can still squeeze in a late crop of seedlings now.

2. Switch from sowing annual large-leafed rocket to its peppery perennial cousin, wild rocket (aka arugula). It's not as lush and leafy but adds great flavour to pizzas and pastas as well as raw salads.

3. Plant kale (if you must). Salad kales such as Russian Red thrive right through autumn and winter. With all kales, harvest the leaves while small and tender. There is northing worse than chewing on coarse old kale.

4. Edible flowers such as nasturtiums and pansies can be planted now for pretty salads.

5. Winter greens, such as miner's lettuce, corn salad and mizuna, are best sown direct.

CATHERINE RAYNES: Books
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster, Allen & Unwin $37
City of Friends by Joanna Trollope, Macmillan $30

ANDREW DICKENS: Music
John Mayer 'The Search for Everything: Wave Two' - Andrew's verdict: 6/10
Polite, restrained and tasteful, this release is better than the previous 4 track release. But while his guitar work is still impeccable and his vocals smooth as toffee there’s always something overwhelming about Mayer in a studio. Live he cuts it up rougher. Very nice and the fans are going to have a field day this year but still vaguely uninspiring.