Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Imagine a brassier, bolder, glitzier THE FULL MONTY shelving Sheffield, England for Tampa, Florida and you have an idea of MAGIC MIKE.
Based loosely on the experiences of Channing Tatum who plays the titular character, it’s about a band of
Chris Nolan throws in the trowel in tidying up the trilogy of the cape and cowl.
Beginning with an excellent action adventure mid air escape sequence where we are introduced to villain Bane, a hybrid Hannibal Lecter cum World Championship
After an illustrious career in his native Hungary, director Istvan Szabo has carved out an enviable enclave in English speaking films especially with actresses of high caliber,– Glenn Close in MEETING VENUS,Annette Benning in BEING JULIA, and now Helen Mirren
The feature film debut of Peter Templeman, whose short film THE SAVIOUR was nominated for an Oscar five years back, NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN stars Ryan Kwanten and boasts a standout, breakout, calling card performance by Sarah Snook.
Kwanten plays
Rolf de Heer’s THE KING IS DEAD plays like a dark riff on The Castle and will resonate with anyone who has anything to do with being a resident and coping with nasty neighbours.
Max, science teacher, and Therese, tax
An hysterical magical history tour de force, HYSTERIA (M) deserves to create quite a buzz at the box office.
It single-handedly tells the story of the invention of the vibrator whilst exploding the myth of the catch-all complaint of hysteria
I wish theatre companies and venues in Sydney would go through metamorphoses to lure and entice audiences. Disgraceful that PACT in Erskineville has METAMORPHOSES running there at the moment but passing traffic wouldn’t know, even people who knew it was
I’d love to report that the appearance of Larry David as a nun is worth the price of admission to the Farrelly Brothers take on the knuckled headed nitwits born of depression era vaudeville, THE THREE STOOGES.
Unfortunately, and as
After only a decade since its big screen reboot and five years since Spiderman 3, Sony has sought to spin a new origin story for the arachnid kid, called THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN.
Such is the appetite for super hero films,
John A.D. Fraser traverses territory trail blazed by Martin McDonaugh in his latest play ALL THE RAGE appropriately propping up the play bill at the Old Fitzroy Theatre.
On a spare stage presenting a white wall and two doors at