Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
“Prison is for those who aren’t punished up here,” says Det. Sgt Carl Summer pointing to his noggin and insinuating that incarceration is for recalcitrant recidivists without remorse, not for those who are plagued by their conscience for a non-premeditated …
Another good reason to invest in the Israeli Film Festival is the disarmingly charming THE DUNE.
The title suggests desert and the film opens in an arid little Israeli boondock where Hanoch seems to while away his time playing chess …
Reverence My Sanctuary is inscribed in the proscenium arch of the stage. It is not purpose built as the play’s set but a remnant of the old Baptist Tabernacle Church that now hosts the Eternity Playhouse, an apt space …
As expendable as Kleenex and as feasible as digital toilet paper, THE EXPENDABLES 3 has expanded the franchise with even more star power with the addition of Harrison Ford and Mel Gibson fondling the nostalgia zone of 80s action movies …
Was the road to Rouen really the road to ruin for Jeanne D’Arc?
The story goes that the Maid of Orleans was made barbecue steak in Rouen, burned as a heretic by the same Church that canonised her some centuries …
A young suicide bomber asks when his assignment might come through as he has a maths exam imminent and wonders if he needs study for it. “My father will kill me if I fail the test” he explains.
This black …
I confess I have not marveled at the Marvel movies. Reboots of radioactive spider bite victims and jolly green giants with giant jolly deficiencies don’t thrill me, nor Thor, and not amalgamations of iron clad, shield wielding, hammer throwing millionaires, …
Dublin based writer director John Carney came to the world’s movie goers’ attention with the crowd and critic pleasing ONCE. In a previous life, John had been bassist in the Irish rock band, The Frames. These musical roots continue to …
Outhouse Theatre Company began by exporting Australian theatre to New York. Now they’re importing American theatre to Sydney.
Their inaugural production, Joel Drake Johnson’s FOUR PLACES, is a good one for the intimate confines of Tap Gallery Upstairs Theatre, where …
“It looks like a pen, writes like a pen, listens like a pen”. That’s about as James Bond as the sensational spy thriller A MOST WANTED MAN gets, yet this film remains intriguing, gripping, and suspenseful.
Based on the book …