Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Kurt and Bert proteges, The Tiger Lillies are the heirs apparent Weil boys of acerbic cabaret.
Bowler hatted bulldog panda front man Martyn Jacques sings, plays accordion, home hewed ukulele and keyboards, occasionally flummoxing us with gorgeous falsetto.
Adrian Stout…
As Peter Corris has admitted, he’s addicted to writing. That’s a blessing for those addicted to reading him.
It was only February last year that Allen and Unwin published his 40th Cliff Hardy book. And now the 41st, THAT EMPTY …
The first great film of last year was Birdman, directed by Alejandro G. Inarittu, and the filmmaker takes line honours again this year with his pelting frontier epic, THE REVENANT.
THE REVENANT is a story of relentlessness – …
MATILDA @ The Lyric
Sourced from Roald Dahl’s novel of the same name, MATILDA boasts a book by Dennis Kelly and music and lyrics by Tim Minchin, a delightful adaptation that imaginatively distills the highs and lows, the twists …
BIRDMAN : The first great movie of the year, with a cracker cast, a script interspersed with the writings of Raymond Carver, and the inherent message of don’t mistake admiration for love. Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu co-produced, co-wrote and directed …
An uber impressive celebration of the centenary of Sinatra is the pictorially splendid, THE CINEMATIC LEGACY OF FRANK SINATRA.
Sinatra’s musical legacy is entrenched in the collective psyche, but, even though he won an Academy Award, his extraordinary contribution to …
The poet Charles Bukowsi was a pussy man par excellence and his philofelineosophy has been distilled by editor Abel Debritto in a compendium cataloguing the prose and poetry recurrent in the canon, categorically called CHARLES BUKOWSKI ON CATS.…
YOUTH will probably be wasted on the young. No CGI, witless banter, jejune and juvenile jesting. Just a couple of old geezers, a composer and a film maker, reminiscing and grappling with the here and now, which includes a relationship …
Three minutes of mutual masturbation between Murphy and Electra serves as a kind of narrative foreplay for the fetishist flashback that is LOVE, Gaspar Noe’s explicit epic of ennui.
Murphy (Karl Glusman) and Electra (Aomi Muyock) were lovers until Murphy …
Ron Howard and Chris Hemsworth obviously got on well together making RUSH that they’ve teamed up again as director and leading man for IN THE HEART OF THE SEA.
Obviously, they are anxious to do something different, and certainly a …