footloose

For reasons difficult to fathom Hollywood has released a remake of the 1984 film FOOTLOOSE. This is directed by Craig Brewer and stars an attractive young couple, Kenny Wormald & Julianne Hough along with Andie MacDowell and Dennis Quaid.

FOOTLOOSE

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matthew loeser putting on the ritz

The Elrocco Jazz Cellar is a charming “underground” venue at the fringe of the Cross, featuring a wide variety of attractions from Jazz, Vaudeville, Stand-up Comedy and contemporary arts presentation. One of those venues where you can just stroll in

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wtc’s the boy from oz

The Willoughby Theatre Company’s production of Nick Enright’s classic THE BOY FROM OZ represented a memorable opening to Chatswood’s long awaited and fantastic new theatre, rather unimiganitively named, the theatre on the Concourse.

Enright’s ‘book’ is made from the finest

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crazy, stupid, love

CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE is the second shot at feature film directing by duo Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. These boys first came to motion picture prominence by penning Bad Santa, the iconoclastic, caustic, claus with claws comedy. They then adapted

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the whistleblower

Stymied by glass ceiling restraints for transfer and promotion, Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac (Rachel Weisz) accepts a well paying peace keeping gig with the United Nations in Bosnia.Although under the auspices of the UN, her employer is actually a contractor

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the new deal

Sydney playwright James Balian puts on a play every year for the Sydney Fringe Festival. I loved last year’s THE VIAGRA MONOLOGUES and was very much looking forward to his new production, THE NEW DEAL.

Balian’s play takes us into

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fright night

Remake, reboot, reimagining, whatever you want to call it, Hollywood is regurgitating at a rate faster than a feline fur ball fetishist.

Luckily, some are better than others, like the current FRIGHTNIGHT (M) the revamped vampire pic from 1985.

A

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snowflower and the secret fan

The ties that bind. That is what SNOWFLOWER & THE SECRET FAN (PG) could have alternatively been called.

Inspired by the bestselling novel by Lisa See, SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN tells the story of seven-year-old girls Snow Flower

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the mousetrap

The Genesian Theatre was in the fortunate position of announcing months before their current production of Agathie Christie’s classic 1952 murder mystery THE MOUSETRAP opened, that the show was a complete sell-out.

With the present production, Barry Nielson, the Company’s

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smashed

Melbourne playwright Lally Katz’s play SMASHED takes us into the world of besties, Hazel and Ruby, girlfriends who have shared their childhood and adolescence lives together, and are now on the verge of facing their adult lives.

Walking into the

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