Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
ROCKETMAN is certainly the Dwight Stuff, a musical medley of the mercurial rise of Reggie Dwight and his metamorphosis into the music legend that is Elton John, the gifted musician, who set himself on a treadmill of fame and fortune …
Ashleigh Wilson’s essay ON ARTISTS is a pain in the arts.
Wilson quotes George Orwell- “If Shakespeare returned to Earth tomorrow and if it were found out that his favourite recreation was raping little girls in railway carriages, we should …
Mike Leigh’s latest big canvas production, PETERLOO, is a magnificent class struggle epic of prodigious weight that plucks a pivotal event in English history from the dustbin of obscurity.
Pic begins on the last day of the Battle of Waterloo, …
Sydney Philharmonia Choirs’ MUSIC FROM THE MOVIES kicks off with the monumental Millennial megahit, Frozen, then proceeds to navigate a course of varying degrees of nostalgia, mingling classical compositions used in movies and music written specifically for film.
A …
Move over Exotic Marigolds, THE EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY OF THE FAKIR is the new champ of sub continental romanticism, taking us on a wild ride of coincidence and circumstance with charm and elan.
In this Euro-pudding of a picture, Aja, a …
Can Fred Flarsky ever forget Charlotte Field and find true happiness?
It’s a long shot brought to short stop in LONG SHOT, a deliciously captivating, deliriously romantic political comedy.
I don’t think its drawing a long bow entertaining the idea …
Does Robert De Niro play golf? On principle, he probably proscribes the putting and Penfold 7s , seeing how totally opposed he is to the golfing megalomaniac Donald Trump.
Bobby will probably like a new book out that seeks to …
Like a trance Ted talk, David Finnigan, fearless writer of Kill Climate Deniers, tears through a litany of tropes that might make the subject of climate change more palatable and conversational in YOU’RE SAFE TILL 2024.
That’s only five years …
Frida Kahlo, as her personification on stage tells us, is the artist who gave birth to herself.
It takes a little while but Kate Bookalil gives birth to Frida in a wonderfully theatrical way in FRIDA KAHLO: VIVA LA VIDA …
The Old Fitz Theatre is turned into a kind of drive in for ALICE IN SLASHERLAND, a grind house pastiche of contemporary horror movies.
Running the gamut from B to Z grade in the trauma tropes of teenagers in Zombie …