Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
I once dated someone called Meg. She had such terrible bridge work, every time I kissed her I had to pay toll.
THE MEG, is all about teeth and dating and the toll of toying with nature.
Megalodon, a big …
Arguably the blackkest comedy of the year, BLACKKKLANSMAN is also one of the best films of the year, period.
Beginning with a foul racist rant upholding the Protestant Anglo Saxon Purity policy of the Ku Klux Klan, BLACKKKLANSMAN tells the …
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Pepys said of Nell Gwynn – “hath the notions and carriage of a spark … It makes me, I confess, admire her.”
So might he well say of Bishanyia Vincent whose performance of Nell Gwynn in …
Once considered cutting edge, TORCH SONG TRILOGY, or at least this Darlinghurst Theatre Company production of it, now seems quaint.
The triptych seems exceedingly long to the point of tedium, with two intervals seemingly longer than the middle act, maddeningly …
There’s possibly an argument that Tim Watson-Munro’s book, A SHRINK IN THE CLINK, should come shrink wrapped.
Subtitled Crazy Tales of Criminal Sin and Jail Psychology, A SHRINK IN THE CLINK is a litany of low life lifers, their times …
Kendall Feaver’s THE ALMIGHTY SOMETIMES is more than a kitchen shrink drama charting the brittle relationship between a mother and daughter.
The daughter, Anna, had been diagnosed with a mental illness at eight years old and is now approaching adulthood.…
Lucky for you, the 13th annual Sydney Latin American Film Festival (SLAFF) is back this September (6—15) with screenings at three diverse venues: the Dendy Opera Quays, Addison Road Picture House and PYT Fairfield.
The Festival will screen a specially …
Like a Kafka tale for kindergarten kids, CICADA is another exquisite triumph of picture book art, craft, empathy and imagination from Shaun Tan.
CICADA tells the story of the eponymous Cicada, a data entry clerk who has toiled for seventeen …
Gotcha tix for THE BREAKERUPPERERS, Bro?
You better be quick to see the quirky Kiwi comedy, THE BREAKERUPPERERS. Perhaps the merriest movie you’ll see this month, heh?
WRITTEN, DIRECTED AND STARRING: JACKIE VAN BEEK MADELEINE SAMI , THE BREAKERUPPERERS is …
“I’VE GOT NO CHOICE. I CAN’T DO WHAT EVERYBODY ELSE DOES, I CAN’T BE A CIVILIAN, I’VE NO BACKBONE. I GOT A FUNNY BONE INSTEAD” so proclaims Funny Cow, the titular comedienne of the formidably funny film, FUNNY COW.
FUNNY …