Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Orion Publishers are touting Mason Cross’ debut thriller, THE KILLING SEASON, “2014’s most exciting debut”.
It’s pretty good and should give readers of Jack Reacher plenty of pleasure.
My cards are on the table of not caring too much for …
When Woody Allen is not writing and directing his own movies, he’s mentoring.
The story goes that John Turturro was telling his barber about this idea for a film and his barber, who is also Woody’s tonsure tech, passed the …
Strategically placed for an ANZAC DAY premiere, CANOPY is ostensibly a one man WWII show about an Australian flyer shot down over Singapore in 1942.
The airman’s parachute has landed him in the canopy of a jungle, a forest infested …
CHINESE PUZZLE marks the third in a trilogy of films that began with THE SPANISH APARTMENT, segued into RUSSIAN DOLLS and has made a triumphant hatrick with this beautifully mature, madcap and audacious film.
These three films, that writer/ director …
Sounds like the title of a companion piece by H G Wells but THE INVISIBLE WOMAN is the fascinating story of Nelly Wharton Robinson who captured the heart of Charles Dickens.
Nelly was part of the all female acting troupe …
On Saturday April 5, the Monash Gallery of the Arts opened the Rennie Ellis Show and a showcase book of Ellis’s photography, DECADENT:1980-2000 was launched.
As the captivating chronicler of social change in Australia in the last two decades of …
It’s worth checking in to THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (M) for the cavalcade of rich characters and invigorating incident.
A flashback story related by one guest to another, it concerns a consummate concierge by the name of M. Gustave, played …
Jim Jarmusch has snatched the vampire story from the snivelling snot nosed tweenies and transfused it into an intelligent, funny, literate love story in ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE (M).
With so many movies going for the event status, ONLY LOVERS …
HALF OF A YELLOW SUN (M) is primarily a love story set against the upheaval of the creation of Biafra and the strife of war and famine that followed.
Old tribalism and its contingent superstition married to the unctuous avarice …
Some nights at the theatre leave you in stitches. Not so with STITCHING.
This is a dour hour of time shifting game playing from here to maternity and there to paternity made palatable by two very fine performances
Abby and …