Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
The normally lean fare presented at the Old Fitzroy has gone the way of the world with its Super Size production of THE WHALE by Samuel D. Hunter, a tale of morbid obesity and Mormonism.
In a squalid apartment …
An anomaly is something that deviates from the common, and Charlie Kaufman’s ANOMALISA deliciously deviates from the common concept of animation.
ANOMALISA is Charlie Kaufman’s second feature as director, following 2008’s superb and underrated Synecdoche, New York, and seventh …
“It’s not binary. You can be decent and gifted at the same time.”
This is a parting shot from Steve Wozniak to Steve Jobs in Aaron Sorkin’s superbly calibrated script, STEVE JOBS, the second biopic in as many years about …
What a drag…
THE DANISH GIRL, based on the best selling book of the same name by David Ebershoff, has been in development as a motion picture for at least 7 years. Back in 2009 it was touted that …
The first great Australian film of the year, LOOKING FOR GRACE, is Sue Brook’s deceptively simple story of how unsimple our everyday lives are.
The film opens with a bus weaving its way through the West Australian wheat belt. On …
Last year, the new custodians and curators of The Old Fitz theatre, Red Line Productions, invited a fringe favourite, MASTERCLASS, to kick off their inaugural season.
Written and performed by Gareth Davies and Charlie Garber, this entertaining existentialist …
The official version is that Quentin Tarantino’s latest gore fest, THE HATEFUL EIGHT, was supposed to be a one-off staged reading in a down town LA flea pit. Such was the response, however, that, aw shucks, he just had to …
A cross between The Goonies and Gremlins, GOOSEBUMPS is a compendium of R. L. Stine’s stories that have been scaring the pants off children for decades.
Now there’s a sentence that reminds me of one of the funniest lines in …
Now hear this. One of the funniest films of the season is about a deaf French family called THE BELIER FAMILY.
You heard right. In the Belier family everyone is deaf except for daughter, Paula, the vivacious sixteen year old …
Disappointing lesbian romantic drama based on a Patricia Highsmith novel, CAROL is the latest lush life Fifties fueled film from Todd Haynes, who gave us the more satisfying Sirk styled Far From Heaven a few years back. Indeed, CAROL …