Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Almost ten years since its debut production, Christopher Johnson’s THE YOUNG TYCOONS stands the test of time with a remount at its spiritual home, Darlinghurst Theatre Company, albeit in their new venue, The Eternity Playhouse.
Under the same assured hand …
Once upon a time, Amelia was being rushed to hospital by her husband, Oscar, for the birth of their baby. A collision, and death collected Daddy. Mummy delivered a son, Samuel.
Seven years on, Samuel is “in the spectrum”, Amelia …
Reminiscent of early Polanski, and in the great tradition of Polish pictures, IDA(M), is the latest film from Pawel Pawlikowski who has been plying his trade in the UK but returns to Poland in glorious triumph with this sparse, unadorned …
New theatre company Tooth & Sinew’s premiere production of Howard Barker’s SCENES FROM AN EXECUTION lives up to the company’s name.
It’s an apt choice, as Barker’s language is muscular, visceral and a veritable anatomical alphabet.
Our first image is …
What becomes of the broken hearted?
Now there’s a lyric that encapsulates THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN (MA) an extraordinary, engaging, emotionally and intellectually affecting film that charts a love story from burgeoning beauty through to bitterness and bereavement, yet never …
Like some cinematic cousin to his masterpiece, ‘Brazil’, Terry Gilliam’s THE ZERO THEOREM is set in an uber bureaucratic dystopia echoing Orwell, Kafka and Philip K. Dick.
Our protagonist, the emotionally damaged and the emotionally bereft Qohen Leth, is an …
From Hardie Grant, the Abba-dabba-do official photo book, ABBA.
This chronological photo album is a coffee table tribute to the band that created adolescent boy and girl crushes through a series of wholesomely sexy video clips shot by Lasse Hallstrom.…
In the tradition of the great gastronomical pictures of the past, like ‘The Big Night’, ‘Babette’s Feast’, and ‘Eat, Drink, Man, Woman’, CHEF is a satisfying cinematic smorgasbord where ingredients, preparation, and presentation earn major movie Michelins.
As an entre …
Feathers don’t so much as fly as get ruffled in HEALING, a prison film that harks back to The Birdman of Alcatraz.
Analogies abound and parallels proliferate in this tale of rehabilitation, redemption and raptors.
Don Hany stars as Viktor, …
To call Roddy Doyle’s new book, BRILLIANT (Macmillan) brilliant, is an understatement.
Two Dublin kids, brother and sister, Gloria and Raymond, aka Rayzer, are delighted their Uncle Ben is coming to live with them, but the reason for his moving …