NEW SKIN: A LOVE STORY
There’s a powerful lot of bonking in Miranda Nation’s debut novel, NEW SKIN. I couldn’t have liked it more.
Leah and Alex meet in med school in Melbourne. In May of their second year of study, 1997, Alex attends Leah’s …
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THE MOTHER & THE BEAR: A SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHT
After her daughter Sumi slips on ice after a suspected incident with a bear and is temporarily put into an induced coma, widowed Sara flies from Seoul to Winnipeg to be by her side.
Being somewhat the tiger mother, Sara …
THE GREAT LILLIAN HALL: CHEWING ON CHEKOV
The actor’s nightmare. Dementia. The learning of lines and memorising staging directions are bedrock of an actor’s craft and when they become allusive it is indeed the end. The facing up to the career final curtain is the spine of …
EUREKA DAY: PAX VOBISCUM VS VAX PROSCRIPTION
There are many Eureka moments in Jonathan Spector’s EUREKA DAY and this production by Outhouse Theatre Co. under the direction of Craig Baldwin finds them.
There are Eureka moments of empathy, there are Eureka moments of pathos, there are Eureka …
MONSIEUR AZNAVOUR: THE SINNER AND THE SONGS
Charles Aznavour lived a long life. And this film of this life is long.
MONSIEUR AZNAVOUR runs to two and a quarter hours and for the most part it is engrossing and entertaining.
Born in Paris in 1924 as the …
ANARCHY [1138-53] : DOPPLEGÄNGSTER @KXT ON BROADWAY
Above: Promotional material for The Anarchy [1138-53]. Featured image: Kerith and Tobias Manderson-Galvin. Photo credit: TNS Studios.
Hear ye ! There is more than one way to skin a theatrical cat. Hear ye!
This is currently being dynamically demonstrated …
THE ANARCHY (1138-53) AT KXT ON BROADWAY
The ack ack of Acker, a barrage of verbiage, bullseye and bullshit, projectile speech spew taking aim, misfiring, have another shot, it’s anarchy alright, all wrong and all right, a pendulum swing between profane and pretentious.
Truth in title …
WILDING: SOWS REAP
Eccentric ecological warriors worry traditional green and pleasant land tillers and livestock farmers in WILDING, a barmy balm for those fretting over fertilzer and the rape of the planet.
Based on Isabella Tree’s best-selling book by the same title, WILDING …
THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME: PURE UNALLOYED JOY
THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME is yet another blast from the canon of Wes Anderson, his latest film bearing the same cheeky originality his previous pictures have proven, baring the familiar stigmata of cinematic genius.
This extraordinary opus opens on a plane …
NIGHTSHADE: DEADLY
Add the name of Stilwell to Bosch, Haller and Ballard in the Michael Connelly universe of top shelf detective fiction protagonists.
Dave Stilwell is the hero protagonist in Connelly’s latest brilliant crime caper, NIGHTSHADE, a crime caper occurring on Catalina …