valentine’s day date movies 2013

THIS MEANS WAR (M) is unabashed drivel from go to woe with heavy emphasis on the WOE! Pity somebody didn’t call Whoa on this pinnacle of jejune.

THIS MEANS WAR quickly becomes THIS MEANS YAWN with a pedestrian action sequence

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the act

This powerful, chilling play will haunt you .Underneath a thin veneer of gallows humour and bad Jewish jokes is a play that forces us to question the core of all our morals and the very existence of God.

This is

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best we forget

Totally unforgettable as I remember, BEST WE FORGET at The Old Fitzroy.

According to one of the play’s characters, I am meant to only remember 35% of what I saw.
I do remember this: walking in to the space to

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shame

It appears that Oscar knows no SHAME. It has shunned this intriguingly beautiful yet confronting film. When the star from Hunger teams with the lead from An Education, you get SHAME. Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan play brother and sister

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young adult

Young Adult is the gleaming reteaming of the creators of JUNO.

Writer Diablo Cody, who won an Oscar for JUNO, has been overlooked by the Academy this time, even though this screenplay is just as sharp, astute, funny and sad

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circus oz- steampowered

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, roll up, roll up for the one, the only , the brilliant and spectacular Circus Oz (drumroll please ) ….

Based in Melbourne, legendary Circus Oz has now been established for over thirty years

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ordinary days

Fresh and vibrant, this is a delightful, elegant and witty intimate ‘chamber musical’, a wonderful way to start this year’s season at Darlinghurst Theatre.

With music and lyrics by Adam Gwon, wonderful Squabbalogic (who brought us [Title of show]) now

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j.edgar

J.EDGAR (M) is Clint Eastwood’s latest biopic. He sort of did it with Nelson Mandella a few years ago with INVICTUS, and most certainly did with Charlie Parker in BIRD.

Declining to call it HOOVER in case punters thought it

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thyestes

I wasn’t a fan of Simon Stone’s production of THYESTES currently playing at Redfern’s Carriageworks.

The story follows twin brothers Thyestes (Thomas Henning) and Atreus (Mark Winter) who jealously murder their half-brother Chrysippus (Chris Ryan, who then adopts a range

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terra nova

For their first production for 2012, and to commemorate the centenary of Scott’s expedition, the Genesian Theatre Company’s current show is a revival of American playwright Ted Tally’s play, TERRA NOVA (1977). Tally’s play recounts the famous story of British

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