Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Marketing mavens might be tempted to promote ODDBALL as Red Dog meets Kenny. And why not? Both those films inveigled themselves into Australian audience hearts and ODDBALL should undoubtedly deliver the same funny and poignant warm and fuzzies.
Oddball is …
HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD chronicles the adventures of an eclectic group of young Canadian hippie journalists, photographers, musicians, scientists, American draft dodgers, tree huggers, Buddhists, nudists, – who set out to stop Richard Nixon’s atomic bomb tests in Amchitka, …
RIDE & FOURPLAY is a two play presentation of a couple of early works by Jane Bodie, a dynamic double feature directed by Anthony Skuse.
A little like Terrence McNally’s Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune…
Product placement is elevated to lyric replacement in a case of not who pays the piper but the Piper pays the production in Helen Dallimore’s elegant, swellegant staging of HIGH SOCIETY at the Hayes Theatre.
Piper Heidsieck champagne is the …
Rowan Greaves’ production of BULL by Mike Bartlett suffers somewhat from having to use the fatigued set of the The Aliens, the current “main stage” production at the Old Fitzroy.
The set up of BULL is three employees await a …
Peroni and pizza and Mitchelton wine preceded this year’s launch screening of the Lavazza Italian Film Festival at the Verona cinema.
The film chosen for the launch was Nanni Moretti’s latest Cannes festival pleaser, MIA MADRE, a mix of melancholy …
A WALK IN THE WOODS is a performance walk in the park for Robert Redford and Nick Nolte playing an outdoors odd couple who try to trek the great Appalachian Trail that stretches 2,000 miles across North America.
Based on …
It may not be the season yet to take a book to the beach and on reflection, maybe taking THE BOOK OF SPECULATION to the seaside is as silly as sitting on the sand and reading Jaws.
Maybe its just …
It’s hard to believe that the last time Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline teamed up was 1982 for SOPHIE’s CHOICE.
A far less harrowing film, RIKKI & THE FLASH is a reunion that is somewhat a role reversal where Meryl …
First a best selling and award winning book, then a box office smash hit and award winning play, HOLDING THE MAN makes it a trifecta with Neil Armfield’s beautifully rendered film.
With a screenplay by Tommy Murphy who adapted Timothy