Highly qualified in things other then ‘the Arts’; Carolyn’s life long love of theatre, movies, comedy and music has meant that she has spent much of her life in dark rooms with strangers – sitting upright and paying attention.
So now – please sit upright and pay attention…
NON- STOP is a brisk action thriller, a modern Agatha Christie ‘whodunit’ played at 40,000 feet on a flight with 200 passengers lives at risk.
Liam Neeson stars as Bill Marks a burned out veteran of the Air Marshals service. …
In time for Mardi Gras, the Griffin Theatre presents Sydney playwright, Donna Abela’s award-winning play, Jump for Jordan. It is more than a ‘coming out’ play. It depicts the experience of being ‘caught between two cultures’ common to second-generation Australians.…
ALL IS LOST is an action survival movie – a nearly dialogue-free thriller. It is 105 minutes in length covering a lone sailor’s 8 days of fighting the sea to survive.
Robert Redford stars alone as a man lost at …
One for the romantics, perfectly timed with a Valentine’s Day release, ENDLESS LOVE, directed by Shaun Feste from a screenplay by Feste and Joshua Safran, is a remake of the 1981 teen romance movie which starred Brooke Shields. It is …
Just a short time after the great man’s passing, MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM was released. The much awaited film of Mandela’s autobiography has been adapted for the big screen by William Nicholson, is directed by Justin Chadwick and stars …
A Sydney Festival 2014 show, this contorted acrobatic whirlwind sped along by a band playing funky jazz, rap and oompah, is a delight to the senses and keeps the heart beating rapidly.
Sxip Shirey’s music provides the score and some …
AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY is a Midwestern melodrama, directed by John Wells, adapted for the big screen by the playwright Tracy Letts.
Wells’s film covers the lives of strong-willed women and their tag-along men. Their lives have diverged but are brought …
Hope, anguish, compassion, love, fear, heartbreak and laughter are among the emotions generated by the British film, ‘Philomena’, starring Dame Judi Dench and Steve Coogan as the main characters.
Based on a true story it tells of an unwed mother …
If you have a well-developed sense of the ridiculous, you are likely to enjoy the French movie, ON MY WAY.
ON MY WAY tells the story of Bettie (Catherine Deneuve), a woman in her early sixties. Jilted by her lover, …