Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
If those crazy, kooky, Coen Brothers films weren’t enough, one of their most famous, FARGO, has spawned a kooky, crazy spin-off by another talented two, sibling cineasts, David and Nathan Zellner.
In KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER, the proverbial “imitation is …
Something of a retro reciprocation and homage to Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona, THE UNEXECTED LIFE is a devilishly entertaining romantic comedy starring two of Spain’s finest character actors Javier Cámara (Living is Easy with Eyes Closed, Talk To …
It is interesting to note that two of our best independent theatre venues are currently presenting plays from the early 1980s.
Eternity Playhouse is showcasing the Ira Levin sluether DEATHTRAP and The Old Fitzroy has resurrected ORPHANS by Lyle Kessler.…
To coincide with the release of the major motion picture, Testament of Youth, Bloomsbury has published VERA BRITTAIN and the FIRST WORLD WAR by Mark Bostridge.
Subtitled The Story of Testament of Youth, this is a fascinating re-examining of the …
More than 80 years after its first publication, Vera Brittain’s TESTAMENT OF YOUTH forms an integral part of the way we view the British experience of the First World War.
It’s not remotely different from the Australian experience of that …
Devilishly dramatic and fiendishly funny, DEATHTRAP is a sure fire entertainment for those who like their fireside thrillers.
Written in the late Seventies by Ira Levin who should be quite apt at matters diabolical, being the author of Rosemary’s Baby…
Woeful limpid, cliché laden lard, THE GUNMAN is like a celluloid midlife crisis writ large across the big screen.
Sean Penn has buffed up to play Jim Terrier, who at the beginning of the picture is a mercenary who is …
Fans of the fabulous Australian feature film Paper Planes should find a simpatico fascination with X + Y, British filmmaker Morgan Matthews’ movie about a math whiz attending an international calculus contest.
Asa Butterfield plays Nathan, a number crunching nerd …
What’s typical of great actors: they create characters, not performances. You betcha. And that’s what makes the movie, MOMMY, so damned good, a motherlode of mature, pure, crystalline characterisation from everyone, but especially the three central characters of this compulsively …
Shaun the Sheep made his debut in 1995, when he appeared in Nick Park’s Oscar®-winning short film A Close Shave, starring Wallace and Gromit. It made its debut TV on Christmas Eve 1995, attracting BBC-2’s largest audience for that whole …