Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
DOWN UNDER continues writer director Abe Forsythe’s fascination bordering on fetish with Ned Kelly.
Abe’s first feature film was Ned, a scattergun comedy about the great Australian icon, and in his second feature, DOWN UNDER, a sub satirical look …
Who am I?
Novocastrian former member of the famed The Castanet Club and supreme assailer of the Sale of the Century?
Russell Cheek, that’s who.
WHO AM I? is also the title of a fireside chat of a show devised …
BROKEN is probably the best radio play you’ll see this year.
Three actors, three microphones, palettes of practical sound effects on the floor, against a backdrop of frosted glass panels.
The space is spare, but the writing and the performances …
Absolutely fatuous, ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS: THE MOVIE comes with the usual flab and padding that goes with lifting a thirty minute television show and puffing it out into a ninety minute feature film.
Kath and Kim almost got away with it, …
Palace Cinemas has announces that it will open a new ten-screen cinema in Sydney’s Double Bay.
The move is in line with two other redevelopments in New South Wales for Palace Verona and Palace Byron Bay. For Verona, all existing …
Above- Author Justine Ford and the book cover.
How good is Justine Ford’s biography of Ron Iddles, THE GOOD COP?
Very good indeed. Riveting.
Inspired as a boy by the Crawford Productions television series, Homicide, Ron Iddles’ dream was …
Production photography by Julia Robertson.
The kitchen sink drama takes an abluted detour to the bathroom in Clare McIntyre’s LOW LEVEL PANIC.
Splish, splash, Jo is taking a bath, having a soak and a stroke when she is rudely interrupted …
Sensational stories in the finest tradition of American craftsmanship, DOG RUN MOON signals the arrival of Callan Wink, the latest inductee to the pantheon of contemporary compulsive page turners.
Nine muscular, robust stories, each one a gem of polished, …
Featured photo – British artist and author Nick Bantock.
Mid way through THE PHAROS GATE, purportedly the lost correspondence of Griffin and Sabine, we discover a letter from Maud to Fran in Alexander. Maud tells Fran that she was compelled …
It had me at the mention of face bidets. Giggles at the get go at GHOSTBUSTERS, the all female retread or reboot or re-gendered of the hit 1984 box office gross-buster.
Melissa McCarthy and Bill Murray should star in more …