Deserving of box office support is THE BEAVER (M) Jodie Foster’s film features an audacious star turn from Mel Gibson. Hand in glove with a puppet Beaver and vocally channelling Ray Winstone, mad Mel plays a toymaker well past the
Pete Postlethwaite’s posthumous apologia, A SPECTACLE OF DUST (W&N) begins with a love letter to Liverpool, his spiritual home.During the early part of the 1970s, at the start of his acting career, Liverpool’s magnetism pulled him back again and again.“At
From genetically enhanced humans in Hanna and Captain America to genetically enhanced pongidae, we encounter the origin story of what begat the Planet of the Apes saga in RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (M).
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This is Janacek’s parable of the cycles of nature, presented by the recently formed Sydney Chamber Opera. One of Australia’s finest directors Kate Gaul helms the production and this wonderfully staged chamber opera stars Julie Goodwin and Bryony Dwyer.
Highly
The movie HANNA takes itself far too seriously, especially with its forced fairy tale allusions!
The Hanna of the title is a fourteen year old girl who has been shacked up with her father in Lapland – somebody call child
In Marvel Studio’s reimagining of World War II, CAPTAIN AMERICA:THE FIRST AVENGER, scrawny Steve Rogers turns into brawny Captain America, a shield wielding warrior against an even more nefarious Nemesis than the Nazis – the heinous Hydra and its front
If a key aspect of theatre is how much a show resonates with the audience, then Motherhood The Musical delivers to the select few that no one in the world can live without – our mums.
Enjoyed as a typical
Riding on the back of raving US reviews and branded as the legitimate follow up to the overwhelming world success of ‘Menopause the Musical’ I was looking forward to the Sydney opening of ‘Motherhood The Musical’. The show is clearly
Karen Silkwood and Erin Brokervich are two feisty, independent women with strong political and social consciences who have had made movies made in honour of them. Now add dedicated British social worker Margaret Humphreys to the list with the new
The Epicentre Theatre Company current production of Italian playwright Carlo
Goldoni’s ‘The Servant Of Two Masters’, as adapted by Nick Enright and Ron Blair, is great entertainment, and is in many circles seen as an Australian classic in its own