Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
“Beware the Ides of March” beseeches the soothsayer in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Hubris had the warning go unheeded and a political assassination ensued.
George Clooney’s latest producing/writing/directing/acting gig, THE IDES OF MARCH (M) is based on a play called FARRAGUT
Christmas comes early for cinemagoers with the release of ARTHUR CHRISTMAS, a co-production between Aardman and Sony Animation.
The film is about Santa succession and the enduring success Santa enjoys in circumnavigating the globe on one night.
As depicted at
Not a Labor Party manifesto, rather WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN (M) is an exquisitely realised adaptation of the novel by Lionel Shriver.
A captivating, creative, compelling and mesmerizing movie, Lynne Ramsay is totally on track to being the
OUR IDIOT BROTHER (M) is the kind of title that usually has me running for cover, figuring it will be some gross out American teen puerility masquerading as mirth.
So it came as a pleasant surprise that OUR IDIOT BROTHER
ANONYMOUS (M) comes with inbuilt animosity. Acrimony will come from defendants of William Shakespeare who is accused of not being the author of the canon that has been attributed to him for the past four hundred years.
The premise that
What’s neuro, pussycat? Can a musical about brain surgery be entertaining?!
The grey celled squad from Squabbalogic prove that it’s a no brainer with their energetic production of A NEW BRAIN at Sidetrack Theatre.
Penned by the team behind Falsettos,
What a year Ryan Gosling is having. In CRAZY, STUPID LOVE (M) he’s the buff Lothario giving lessons in love to staid Steve Carrel. In DRIVE (MA), he’s the existentialist wheelman with all the cool of a contemporary Steve McQueen.
The film year started with a fight movie, THE FIGHTER, and looks set to end on another bona fide classic of the genre.
WARRIOR(M) begins with recovering alcoholic Paddy Conlon (Nick Nolte) listening to an audio book of MOBY DICK
“If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well It were done quickly:” opines Macbeth over the assassination of Duncan. And yet he procrastinates.
Such hesitation over homicide afflicts “the heroine” of Howard Barker’s play JUDITH –A Parting of
Sassy, sexy, raunchy, with just a tincture of sentiment, WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER? (M) is a welcome surprise package amidst the crass, gross offerings that Hollywood usually serves up as comedy.
Anna Faris stars as Ally Darling who on the eve