Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Blistering, bold, no holds barred, bah humbug festive season buster starring Willem Dafoe as the super of a block of Orlando apartments, THE FLORIDA PROJECT is the story of precocious six year-old Moonee, a stunning juvenile performance by Brooklyn Prince…
Just in time for Chanukah or if you’re that way inclined, Christmas.
THE JEWISH JOKE: AN ESSAY WITH EXAMPLES (LESS ESSAY, MORE EXAMPLES) gives us historical and cultural essay exemplified by hysterical cultural examples. I’ve been working non start all …
Nearing ninety and facing the final fade out, Roger Moore embarked on a memoir affectionately and playfully called À bientôt.
It’s a memento mori told with charm, child-like wit and a touch of grumpy old man annoyance.…
Nothing stuffs a stocking like a book, and the book that takes the stuffing out of the stocking is STRAYPEDIA.
Compiled by Dominic Knight, possibly from the confines of an Ecuadoran embassy, STRAYAPEDIA is an abc of the ABC …
It’s been a big year for the bruin.
Earlier we had a scene stealing bear in the woods in Logan Lucky, then the bizarrely beautiful Brigsby Bear, and more recently the appearance of Pooh in Goodbye Christopher Robin.…
Light on laughs but colossal in its homage to American theatrical drama of the 2oth century, Woody Allen‘s WONDER WHEEL is a dark carnival attraction bathed in golden light by wondrous cinematographer, Vittorio Storaro.
Channelling Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee …
I can see the producer’s pitch huddled together at the Bar Humbug after too many eggnogs – or Martinis, olive or twist…
Let’s do yet another Scrooge story, this time an origin story, where we get the inception of …
What could have been a pile of poo, GOODBYE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN bears up rather well.
It begins on rather a sombre note during WWII and then flashbacks to the Somme and the mire, the mud, the maggots, a world far …
Add a touch of Home Alone and a tincture of When A Stranger Calls and a pinch of Rope and Psycho you have the best genre picture made in Australia since I dunno when.
You better watch out for this …
Brevity is the soul of wit. Matthew Weiner‘s debut novel, HEATHER, THE TOTALITY proves it.
Spare, sparse prose that has the shock and shatter of a shared and shining certitude, HEATHER, THE TOTALITY is a coruscating, thin ice skating …