Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Go figure! It’s 8 years since Al Pacino has had a film in cinema release in this country, whereas his contemporary Robert De Diro has had the tiresome DIRTY GRANDPA, THE INTERN, JOY, and LAST VEGAS released.
At least two …
“Kosher Nostra” quips Woody Harrelson’s character, Detective Sergeant Jeffrey Allen, when he learns that a major caper is afoot fueled by Russian Jewish Mafia, in John Hillcoat’s macho strutting heist pic, TRIPLE 9.
The good guy wears a cross and …
The American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards, or the Oscars, will be awarded Monday Feb 29 from noon, Australian Eastern Summer Time.
BEST ACTOR
BRYAN CRANSTON is nominated for playing the titular role of Trumbo in TRUMBO…
There seems to be a bit of a confluence of themes and actors at the moment.
TRUMBO deals with Hollywood of the Fifties, RISEN deals with the story of the Christ, and now, The Coen Brothers’ latest film, HAIL, CAESAR …
It’s giggles from the get go, for New Theatre’s retro production of Terence McNally’s THE RITZ, a run amok revolving door romp set in a gay sauna circa 1975.
Play opens with Old Man Vespucci, a minor Mafia don on …
Good gawd almighty! The Messiah is a Maori! Kiwi actor Cliff Curtis is the Christ in Kevin Reynolds RISEN, a Palestinian pulper where DA Pontius Pilate having gotten very cross with a Hebrew hippie finds himself in a pickle when …
The 27th Annual Alliance Francaise French Film Festival kicks off in Sydney on March 1 and the myriad of movies selected and the intersecting themes explored suggest this should be the most successful season of all.
The theme of relationships …
Jay Roach’s biopic on writer Dalton Trumbo, efficiently and succinctly called TRUMBO, begins with Dalton delivering his daughter a parable on communism. It’s about sharing and caring he tells her, and far from the totalitarian political manifestation that was to …
Players in the Pub has been a labour of love for TV and theatre legend, Lyn Collingwood since 2009.
Talented and experienced actors and directors present rehearsed readings of new, classic, rediscovered or uncovered works in the intimate and …
The consequences of climate change impacts in a very real and intimate manner in 45 YEARS, the latest virtuoso film from Andrew Haigh, the director of the wonderful, WEEKEND.
The Broads, England, green and leafy and majestically shot in …