Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Tempus fugit. It is one of the preoccupations in the peony of poems contained in the Faber
Tempus fugit, (Latin for time flies), reminds one of the staple cinematic device of calendar pages a blowin’ in the wind to mark …
“Ray circumcised himself sitting in a café called the 91 on Charlotte Street, SoHo. Ray thought he was Jesus and Jesus was Jewish. He used the knife he’d eaten his fish with. I’m pretty certain Jesus didn’t have chips with …
Early on in Katy Warner’s play, DROPPED, Hope is buried.
Hope is figuratively and literally, a casualty of war, one infanticide among many, interred in a Middle Eastern midden, guarded by two Australian infantry women, brilliantly played by Deborah Galanos…
Truth, beauty and a picture of you is how the lyrics go, but it’s truth, duty and a picture of them that’s the crux of TRUTH, a story of journalism in the jingle jangle and mire of jingoism, conspiracy theories …
Keith Richard is my uncle. We call him Bullswool.
Keith Richards is a founding member of The Rolling Stones, guitar guru, songwriter, consumer of cocaine, and wild man of rock n roll. Playwright Benito Di Fonzo calls him Keef. And …
Is Stephen Frears cozying up to Michael G. Wilson in a ploy to cinch the gig directing the new Bond film?
It’s a real spank my Lycra moment when Wilson pops up as Lance Armstrong’s oncologist early in THE PROGRAM, …
Cosy as a cardigan, Michael Connelly’s THE CROSSING is a police procedural that features Harry Bosch. Bosch is retired from the LAPD but is suing his former employer for wrongful dismissal. His lawyer is Mickey Haller, who happens to be …
The cold blooded assassination of an ass and not the killing of a crustacean comes at the commencement of THE LOBSTER, a sort of Becket infused film, shot in Ireland by a Greek filmmaker, Yorgos Lanthimos.
Why murder a …
For the first time in four films, the gun barrel is back to introduce James Bond in SPECTRE. It’s a blast from the past as is the title, SPECTRE, the name of the organisation 007 is pitted against from the …
Film buffs mark your calendars for Saturday the fourteenth of November for a screening of BY SIDNEY LUMET, a superb documentary on the super luminary cineast Sidney Lumet, courtesy of the Jewish International Film Festival at Event Bondi Junction.
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