Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
‘Earwig and The Witch’ marks Studio Ghibli’s first new theatrical feature since 2014’s ‘When Marnie Was There’, as well as the studio’s first entirely 3DCG animated feature.
Directed by Goro Miyazaki, ‘Earwig and The Witch’ is based on the novel …
Food porn mixed with travel porn, the recipe that kept Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan on their series of Trips, is the flour, eggs and water that binds THE FOOD CLUB, a Danish pastry made of soft corn.
It’s Christmas …
Death and violence are always a great pitch.
So says Erma Bridges, the protagonist in Iain Ryan’s mind fuck thriller, THE SPIRAL.
Erma is an academic specialising in gamebooks, and those of author Archibald Moder, in particular.
Moder is an …
With Australia Day celebrated, commemorated or wish consigned to the dustbin of history for another year, I can think of no better film to see at the moment than HIGH GROUND, an exquisitely executed and brilliantly acted production concerning Frontier …
all photos by Tom Massey
Brush up your Shakespeare,
With the broadest of brush strokes,
Discard your fear of Shakespeare,
With a play of puns and jokes.
Austin Tichenor and Reed Martin
Authors of Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)…
HE comes. He saws. He conks.
Mitch Jones cannibalises clowning, burlesque and fetishist performance art in AutoCannibal.
An hour of horror spiked with black humour, AutoCannibal confronts with the conclusion of the human race’s rampant and out of control consumerism. …
She shucks sea shells by the sea shore.
Self taught spinster palaeontologist, Mary Anning, lives on the wild southern English coastline at Lym Regis, unearthing the prehistoric, the fossil, the relics of sea creatures preserved.
She dwells with her aged …
The toss of a coin and the turn of a friendly Bard, Victor Kalka’s production of TWELFTH NIGHT has a novel way of presentation in this era of novel virus.
The play begins with the cast in two columns tossing …
Distrust in the dust, doubt ridden drought ravaged, debt riddled, THE DRY.
Based on the bestselling novel by Jane Harper, THE DRY is a complex crime story set in the heat shimmering Wimmera, where the rain strapped town of Kiewarra …
Evolution means evolving. Duh.
Progress is made by riding the back of that which has gone before and then leap frogging into the future. Doh.
Animation in the eighties, particularly on television, had become artistically suspect and barren of boldness. …