After an overly sensible young adulthood in the UK blighted by a business degree and attempts at climbing the corporate ladder, Roger saw the light and moved to Australia where he drifted into journalism and reignited a teenage love of the arts and general wonderment at the world. Viewed as slightly odd for his habit of reading books in pubs, he lives in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs. He has no pets.
THE GREEN PRINCE is Shakespearean in its gripping portrayal of humanity’s eternal themes – family, love, identity, trust, hope and betrayal – a staggering achievement for a documentary which is essentially a two-hander.
Directed by Nadav Schirman, THE GREEN PRINCE …
January is a lazy languid time in Sydney, so it’s slightly unfair that the art lover’s idylls should be rudely interrupted – but in the best possible way – by the massive feast of cultural events that is the Sydney …
Given that the definitive play about Sydney’s shallowness was first performed in 1987, audiences may well question the contemporary relevance of David Williamson’s EMERALD CITY.
And also ask how this intimate Griffin Theatre Company production works on the small screen …
Amnesia is the gift that keeps on giving for filmmakers, from 1945’s sublime Spellbound to the ridiculous but fun 50 First Dates of 2004 via a host of others including Guy Pearce’s 2000 Memento, a poster of which turned …
Vampire films have been crying out for a spoof movie and WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS, directed by Flight of the Conchords’ Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi (director of Boy and Eagle vs Shark) has all the makings of …
When the speeding motorist’s car hit the 14-year-old boy at some 150 kmh, the body flew up 26 metres in the air before hitting the ground. This parabola foreshadows the emotional journey taken by the motorist’s mother, Cornelia, in CHILD’S …
The gorgeously visual opening scenes of Richard Ayoade’s THE DOUBLE shout cult movie, one complete with plentiful Orwellian and Kafkaesque references and a pained central character, Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg).
THE DOUBLE is set in a dystopian past where 1950s …
Teenage girl from a good family decides to become a hooker is the premise of YOUNG & BEAUTIFUL, a thought-provoking film from Francois Ozon, director of Swimming Pool, 5×2 and 8 Women).
The key word here is decides: …
Although sixteen-year-old Ben leads a privileged life he is failing to engage with it. EXIT MARRAKECH opens with his luxurious private school in Germany breaking up for the summer holidays and the principal calling him in for a little chat …
There’s a complete and utter nutter already on the sparsely dressed stage when the audience enters the small theatre for the Sydney Festival production of Tim Crouch’s I, MALVOLIO.
The nutter is Malvolio (Tim Crouch), steward to the beautiful and …