Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Clint Eastwood does Four Seasons in one play and makes a Rowdy cameo in the big screen adaptation of the smash hit stage show, JERSEY BOYS. Around the same time as The Four Seasons were making a name for themselves, …
If one could time travel back to pre September 11, 2001, might one convince Atta, plotting his twin tower atrocities in Hamburg, to fly his planes into an apartment block nearby the World Trade Centre instead and put the two …
“Do not despair; one of the thieves was saved.
Do not presume; one of the thieves was damned.”Saint Augustine
So begins CALVARY, see if it doesn’t, John Michael McDonagh’s follow up film to his highly regarded THE GUARD. The pivotal …
Unabashed poetry leaves the reader bashed, battered, operating on bruise control, till the last person standing stanza, in the corollary LOVE & FUCK POEMS by Koraly Dimitriadis.
The sell out success of the original self published zine has led to …
Dead ringer, the creepy colloquial, takes on the troublesome literal in this strange story of doppelganger deja vu.
Five years after being widowed, Nikki spies a guy who is the spitting image of her deceased spouse. She stalks him and …
WHY TORTURE IS WRONG, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM could be seen merely as an absurdist theatrical response to the War on Terror sparked by the attack on the Twin Towers. The real absurd response was the invasion of …
The hiring of a mini to do a tour of Italy is tantamount of tease when you know that the two stars of the film are mad Michael Caine impressionists.
Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan do their trip shtick again …
HOW TO FIGHT ISLAMIST TERROR FROM THE MISSIONARY POSITION is not only the best title of a book this year, but one of the funniest, most biting books of the year.
The novel begins with the narrator giving himself a …
A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST is so lame it decided to self immolate at the Sydney preview screening, liberating viewers from a cinema experience that made a couple of hours in the dentist’s chair look preferable.
As …
There’s a palpable danger as an armoured personnel carrier laden with Scottish troops part of a convoy snaking its way through the anxious wastelands of Afghanistan.
To alleviate their anxiety and consolidate their camaraderie they break into a military tattoo, …