Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Can artificial intelligence contain emotional intelligence, or engender it?
Certainly Thomas Eccleshare’s play INSTRUCTIONS FOR CORRECT ASSEMBLY asserts that possibility. And Clock & Spiel’s production, directed by Hailey McQueen builds on that assertion.
In their starkly white monochrome …
Credit to Jordan Munns.
Imbroglio comes to mind. Embroiled in an imbroglio. That’s THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG.
As we take our seats, we know something’s afoot. It’s in the mouths of the backstage crew wandering the auditorium whistling up …
It starts with a hanging and ends in a shootout and follows the familiar tropes of the classic Western but THE UNHOLY TRINITY is no The Magnificent Seven. More like The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
The Trinity in …
” Fuck, fuck, fuck,” he declared aloud as if the rat-tat-tat of fuck-fuck-fuck covered all and every confusion.
Utterance poetic and profane, the poetic taking precedence as Gail Jones’ new novel, THE NAME OF THE SISTER proceeds in impressive prose …
There’s a sense and sensibility to Laura Piani’s debut feature, JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE.
Camille Rutherford plays Agathe, an aspiring author working in the famous Parisian bookshop “Shakespeare & Co”. She shares an undeniable chemistry with her …
When too much Eduard Fernandez is never too much, two Eduard Fernandez starers throw this Spaniard in the works in this year’s 2025 HSBC Spanish Film Festival.
Bus driver versus bureaucracy proves a winning picture of people power in EL …
Last chance gasp this weekend to score a screening at Sydney Film Festival.
Here are three top flight, first class recommendations.
ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL starts out as mirth mystery and descends into something much more sinister.
Driving home …
There’s a powerful lot of bonking in Miranda Nation’s debut novel, NEW SKIN. I couldn’t have liked it more.
Leah and Alex meet in med school in Melbourne. In May of their second year of study, 1997, Alex attends Leah’s …
After her daughter Sumi slips on ice after a suspected incident with a bear and is temporarily put into an induced coma, widowed Sara flies from Seoul to Winnipeg to be by her side.
Being somewhat the tiger mother, Sara …
The actor’s nightmare. Dementia. The learning of lines and memorising staging directions are bedrock of an actor’s craft and when they become allusive it is indeed the end. The facing up to the career final curtain is the spine of …