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.
This production of David Davalos’s WITTENBERG is a fast-paced, witty triumph of a play in which the views of an unformed young Hamlet (Alexander Butt) are bounced around between the worldly John Faustus (David Woodland) and the earnest Martin Luther …
There’s a lot happening on New Year’s Eve in Derry, Northern Ireland. Against the backdrop of a city girding its loins for a night of revelry, a crook’s safe is robbed and a suicidal girl (Greta, played by Nichola Burley) …
MISSION TO LARS is at heart a road movie, complete with the obligatory scenes of American highways, albeit an unlikely one.
Tom Spicer is a man with an extreme form of autism known as fragile X syndrome and a massive …
The collapse of energy trading giant Enron in 2001 was a bankruptcy of massive proportions, not just financially but also morally. The entire company was in thrall to its share price and would do anything to see it surge higher …
When MORE THAN HONEY opens with a sweet-old bearded grandfatherly type walking through mountainous countryside there’s a distinct WTF moment. What on earth is this pleasant but hardly cutting-edge nature doco about bees doing in the Audi Festival of German
BLISS (no relation to the Peter Carey novel of the same name) is a hard film to love initially but comes good in the end, albeit in a most unexpected and grisly way: you’ll never be able to look at
When overexcited Jackie rushes into his girlfriend Veronica’s apartment with a bunch of flowers held high jabbering his undying love for her, THE MOTHERF**CKER WITH THE HAT, by Stephen Adly Guirgis, gets off to a cracking start. Thanks to the …
When overexcited Jackie rushes into his girlfriend Veronica’s apartment with a bunch of flowers held high jabbering his undying love for her, THE MOTHERF**CKER WITH THE HAT, by Stephen Adly Guirgis, gets off to a cracking start. Thanks to the
BREAK-UP MAN, to be screened as part of this year’s Audi Festival of German Films, is standard rom-com fare with a slightly bitter twist given that it centres on a male lead who works for a “relationship break-up agency” that …
HAUTE CUISINE begins with middle-aged cook Hortense Laborie being rushed off to Paris to cook for ‘a senior public official’ who, surprise surprise, turns out to be the president. However, running the president’s private kitchen in the Elysee Palace is