Eli Beverley-Schack has lived in Sydney since he was 11 years old. A string of men’s hair salons suited his gregarious, extrovert personality. He and his wife travelled extensively throughout Asia and Europe, collecting memories.
Now retired, Eli enjoys his rooftop apartment in Neutral Bay, looking across to the city he loves, and reading. Always reading. He still travels frequently with his new partner, and enjoys harbour-side walks, attending live music venues, independent theatre, and is a regular presence at cinemas across Sydney. He enjoys festivals, obscure art movies, movies, national theatre productions and everything that the Sydney cultural scene offers.
He walks to local libraries to select books appealing to his latest interests, whether it be history, travel, politics, biographies, reads reviews of movies, journals and much more, and enjoys taking photos of the skies above his beloved city that litter his Facebook feed.
Eli observes. He sees. He goes beyond the superficial, and he shares.
So without realising it, it pays to slow down to smell the roses, as it were, and let Theo teach us something about what’s in front of us. The author’s descriptions of nature, art, music, and people are thought- …
The brain behind Italy’s popular Perfect Strangers hatches another high-concept comedy. It’s ripe for a remake rom-com focusing on the conflicting emotions a man and a woman’s experience on their first date, rendering both parties insufferably neurotic.
Director Paolo …
SOMEBODY TO LOVE could have been titled ‘Nobody to Love’, because its three main characters are locked in an endless waltz of disappointment.
Rosie Perez bounces through the movie as Mercedes, a taxi dancer who is hopelessly in love with …
Living on a rundown shipwreck, Mr Fish one day discovers a hyperactive young sea dragon Pip– who has mistaken his home for a junk-yard–pilfering his belongings. The heated argument that ensues leaves both their houses in ruin. But there is …
To begin with, a notice to all bookworms. THE HOUSEMAID doesn’t come close to a faithful adaptation of
Freida McFadden’s best selling 2022 novel, foregrounding the easily digestible, style-over-substance shlock that made the book such a viral hit.The work by …
The greatest generation in history suffered terribly–and in so many ways– in WWII and its aftermath. This story is an eye-opening account of a war whose devastating consequences still reverberate today.
Historian David Nasaw wrote; the men and boys who …
COVER-UP follows the explosive career of Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh in a gripping political powderkeg that exposes systematic violence and a long- standing cycle of unity within the U.S. military intelligence agencies.
With unprecedented access to Hersh’s notes, …
This film has been Inspired by real-life businesses such as the Japanese Efficiency Corporation (Nihon Kikaseu Honbu) that enables clients to rent out actors to play wedding guests, estranged parents, romantic partners or loneliness pals.
What’s served up is a …
South African writer Nadia Davids CAPE FEVER is an eerie, gothic tale set in the 1920’s in Cape Town, South Africa. Soraya Matas from the Muslim Quarter, must help support her struggling family by working for Mrs Hattingh, a settler …
This was the last performance of the year for this accomplished orchestra that always emit fun with musicality and xmas iconography festooning their instruments. Led by the ebullient conductor, Steven Hillinger and harnessing the stentorian talents of esteemed narrator, …