
the leisure seeker

THE LEISURE SEEKER begins with Carole King and ends with Janis Joplin and in between there’s a clutch of songs that represents the soundtrack of the lives of Ella and John, who are making one last cross country trip in …
Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.


THE LEISURE SEEKER begins with Carole King and ends with Janis Joplin and in between there’s a clutch of songs that represents the soundtrack of the lives of Ella and John, who are making one last cross country trip in …


A golden Gaytime of a movie – chocolate coated with crunchy bits – IDEAL HOME is an ideal movie if you want to have big laughs with a little social bite.
Archly and achingly funny, Steve Coogan is a queen …


It takes two to tango, the saying goes. But you can foxtrot on your own.
The steps take you forward, sideways, back, seemingly moving while standing still, or at least returning to the same spot.
This is the grand metaphor …

Blood simple by bloody siblings, BROTHERS’ NEST is a new personal best from the Jacobson Brothers, who gave us the dunny delight of Kenny a dozen years back.
More sinister than the cistern servicing plumber and portaloo impresario, BROTHERS’ NEST …


The vision splendid of Peter Carey’s novel BLISS is splendidly envisioned on stage by Tom Wright’s reverent and inventive adaptation.
The novel BLISS won the Miles Franklin Award. The film won AFI awards for Best Film, Best Director and Best …


A sequel among equals, it’s been worth the fourteen years wait for THE INCREDIBLES 2.
Still outlawed by the authorities to practice their super hero skills, the Parr family are trying to live a normal suburban life.
A run away …


Does Toni Collette have a sixth sense about supernatural movies securing success at the box office? So it seems with her latest foray into fright sight and scary sounds, HEREDITARY.
Here she plays the heir loon of a family tinged …


007 is dead. Long live 007.
James Bond seems to have been around forever and a day, but in the latest continuation novel of his adventures, FOREVER AND A DAY, we learn that his secret service number preceded him and …

Kindling the love of books to belly in the fire boiling point, figuratively and literally, THE BOOKSHOP is perhaps the best British film of it’s ilk this year.
Embers of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and Dandelion Wine stoke the …


Soon to create cinematic waves as Aquaman, Jason Mamoa is dishing out derring-do on digital and DVD in the truth in advertising action adventure drama, BRAVEN.
Mamoa plays Joe Braven, happily married lumberjack, adoring dad to a daughter, and concerned …
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