Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
On entering the intimate Stables Theatre we are confronted with a set basically comprising a bed with a man and a woman in it. The intimacy rises a notch, but is botched as the lights go down and the coital
Michael Parks’ performance as the pernicious preacher, Pastor Abin Cooper is just one good reason to see Kevin Smith’s latest irreverence, RED STATE (MA).
Another is John Goodman’s good man in evil circumstances turn as ATF agent, Joseph Keenan, who
THE HUNTER (M) has Willem Dafoe despatched to Tasmania to track the Tasmanian Tiger for a mysterious biotech company. The last thylacine has been rumoured to be roaming the rugged and remote Tasmanian wilderness and so a hunt for the
CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE is the second shot at feature film directing by duo Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. These boys first came to motion picture prominence by penning Bad Santa, the iconoclastic, caustic, claus with claws comedy. They then adapted
Stymied by glass ceiling restraints for transfer and promotion, Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac (Rachel Weisz) accepts a well paying peace keeping gig with the United Nations in Bosnia.Although under the auspices of the UN, her employer is actually a contractor
The meeting of esteemed Australian novelist Patrick White with assured Australian director Fred Schepisi has paid off in spades with the production of THE EYE OF THE STORM (M).
Adapted by Judy Morris and peopled by a sublime cast, THE
A shot of nostalgia for Shogunites and those sentimental for samurai is in store with 13 ASSASSINS (MA), a boisterous blood and blade Bushido opus from prolific filmmaker Takashi Miike.
Set at the end of Japan’s feudal era, a group
Like a role reversal of THE SUM OF US, BEGINNERS (M) is just as sweet, charming and endearing.
After nearly half a century of marriage, Hal Fields (Christopher Plummer) finds himself a widower and decides to come out as a
Pete Postlethwaite’s posthumous apologia, A SPECTACLE OF DUST (W&N) begins with a love letter to Liverpool, his spiritual home.During the early part of the 1970s, at the start of his acting career, Liverpool’s magnetism pulled him back again and again.“At
In Marvel Studio’s reimagining of World War II, CAPTAIN AMERICA:THE FIRST AVENGER, scrawny Steve Rogers turns into brawny Captain America, a shield wielding warrior against an even more nefarious Nemesis than the Nazis – the heinous Hydra and its front