Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Fellow Australians, it is my melancholy duty to inform you officially that, after a year that has seen the cinema release of three terrific Australian feature films – The Daughter, Looking for Grace, and Sherpa – the …
Sheer film-making skill is on show in SHERPA, a peak performance in documentary film.
Back in 1953, Everest was “conquered” by Kiwi, Edmund Hilary. Sir Ed and his expedition would not have stood a snowball’s of success if it was …
Featured photo- novelist Emily Maguire. Pic by Steven Siewert.
The horror of Emily Maguire’s new novel, AN ISOLATED INCIDENT, is that the topic is not an isolated incident.
The horror perpetrated by men against women – murder and mutilation – …
Too much talent is never enough and two such talents as Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes together, in tandem, is truly a double treat.
Already gobbling up the box office in Hail Caesar!, this terrific duo team up again …
Above Helen Mirren as Colonel Katherine Powell. Featured the late great Alan Rickman as General Frank Benson in EYE IN THE SKY.
Dear Barbara Broccoli and Michel Wilson,
I hear Sam Mendes has officially stated he will not direct …
Last year, British theatre critic, Mark Shenton, wrote an article entitled The Four Sweetest Words in the Theatre: 80 Minutes No Interval.
Obviously, Travis Cotton concurs and his play, called 80 MINUTES NO INTERVAL, is a four …
Back in 1994, a Vogue Australia article on Oscar winning costume designer, Orry Kelly, piqued the curiosity of esteemed film commentators, Ian and Sheila Taylor.
Though they had worked in film distribution in Australia for many years, his …
Shots of Eden. Shots ring out. A duck is downed. Winged. Rescued.
The shooter is Henry, head honcho of the logging company that has been the lifeblood of the town.
The rescuer is Walter, ex financial director of Henry’s holdings …
THE MOVIE DOCTORS is a terrific tome by Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode, two chaps who have spent decades in dark cinemas, have taken their cinematic scalpels, and with surgical precision, cut into the subcutaneous layers of the quintessential …
“There was a green carpet…the colour of algae, the damp green of penicillin. I remember how it smelt, it was like a living thing, the pelt of something that hid terrified and shivering. The bed was big. It smelt like …