friends with benefits

Does director Will Gluck really expect us to seriously ponder the question at the heart of his new film FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS? I hope not! The question is, can a man and woman be sexual partners and just be friends?!

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the eye of the storm

The meeting of esteemed Australian novelist Patrick White with assured Australian director Fred Schepisi has paid off in spades with the production of THE EYE OF THE STORM (M).

Adapted by Judy Morris and peopled by a sublime cast, THE

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the threepenny opera

Excited and looking forward to an inspiring theatrical event I took my seat at the Sydney Theatre. Bewildered and lost in the stars I left. What happened here?

Let me recollect. There was a shift made boxing ring. Aha, so

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13 assassins

A shot of nostalgia for Shogunites and those sentimental for samurai is in store with 13 ASSASSINS (MA), a boisterous blood and blade Bushido opus from prolific filmmaker Takashi Miike.

Set at the end of Japan’s feudal era, a group

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face to face-the movie

Restorative Justice is a contemporary approach to justice that endeavours to come up with a more contemporary way of dealing with offenders and the crimes that they have committed. The punishment for the offender does not lie in facing the

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one day

One Day, Anne Hathaway will deliver on the promise of her talent.ONE DAY (M) her latest movie, is not that awaited delivery!

ONE DAY delivers Anne into a hackneyed, stereotypical ‘stand by your man’ scenario, though he’s a shite, and

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telling tales

With the Hayes Gordon Repetory theatre company’s current production of Australian playwright Clayton Domenico Buffoni’s ‘Telling Tales’ we experience six monologues, each performed by a different actress, and all bearing the theme of disillusionment, of life not turning out the

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a quiet night in rangoon

Australian playwright Katie Pollock’s play ‘A Quiet Night In Rangoon’ takes us into the world of an Australian journalist reporting on an attempted uprising against a military regime. Pollock’s play covers similar territory to two classic Australian films, Peter Weir’s

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beginners

Like a role reversal of THE SUM OF US, BEGINNERS (M) is just as sweet, charming and endearing.

After nearly half a century of marriage, Hal Fields (Christopher Plummer) finds himself a widower and decides to come out as a

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find me a lawyer

It’s time for another light-heated, fast paced comedy from Tony Laumberg with his latest show ‘Find Me A Lawyer’ currently playing at the Newtown Theatre.

Valentino Arico is in good form playing the manic, bungling lead, entrepreneur Marty Fish who

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