Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
From three-time Paralympian swimmer, medal-winner and disability advocate Sarah Rose, comes a big-hearted guide to disability, full of letters, illustrations, learning and love.
A is for Ability and everyone has the ability to be kind and understanding. Some of us …
It has started with a bang. The HSBC Spanish Film Festival launched with THE MOVIE TELLER (La Contadora de Peliculas) and what better way to begin a film festival than with a film that adores and celebrates cinema.
THE MOVIE …
Starting with Ravel’s Bolero and finishing with it, DIVERTIMENTO is the best use of this piece of classical music in a motion picture since Allegro Non Troppo.
Classical symphonic music is everything for 17-year-old Zahia Ziouani and her twin …
Gunpowder and God. Arguably, mankind is the leasor of two evils.
Firearms and deity certainly fuel the cruel in THE CONVERT, Lee Tamahori’s latest excellent foray into toxic masculinity.
New Zealand in the 1830s is a Māori world, dominated by …
We’ve had the tidal wave of Nordic noir, now brace yourself for an epic tale of a Scandi Western in THE PROMISED LAND.
Starring the marvellous Mads Mikkelsen, THE PROMISED LAND is a sweeping saga set at the end of …
Bass ain’t feminine, baritone isn’t womanly, what’s a lady to do.?
Sheanna loves to sing, she always has. But there’s just one catch: she’s a bass. She sees all the best love songs are for sopranos, and the arias written …
The HSBC Spanish Film Festival presented by Palace returns with a fiesta of films, fantastic and unflinching. The curated line-up, the festival’s largest yet, features films from Spain and Latin America.
This year’s Festival’s Centrepiece is THE TEACHER WHO PROMISED …
Want just one good reason to participate in this year’s Japanese Festival online? I AM WHAT I AM starring DRIVE MY CAR scenestealer, Toku Miura.
I AM WHAT I AM is a small cinematic gem with Miura playing an asexual …
In TABLE FOR TWO, Amor Towles detonates an atomic blast of nuclear fiction, a chain reaction of long short stories, culminating in a novella of elegance, charm and erudition.
The relevance of the title may be open to conjecture but …
Like a shade-less Saharan sand dune without the sense of humour, THE BEAST is a shape shifting experience bending time, optics and impending doom.
Like a Saharan sandscape it offers major mirage and minor oasis, both in the form of …