This review will include spoilers, which means I can’t post it on IMDB or most other places, but I can’t speak frankly about the problems of the films critique without spoilers, so I’m going with the spoilers. Be warned. Without any doubt, the most astonishing thing about the film Maleficent is the appalling inability of […]
Monthly Archives: May 2014
May
30
Maleficent – Female power and the complete failure of critical analysis. (Film Review)
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May
24
The Bourne Identity – Doug Liman and the start of something big. (Film review)
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It was for a good reason it was supposed the Jason Bourne films might eventually become an American answer to the James Bond films. When Doug Liman’s The Bourne Identity first appeared on the big screens, we weren’t necessarily unfamiliar with the plotting, but the director of the successful Swingers in 1996 and Go in […]
May
24
Mr. and Mrs. Smith – Doug Liman and the casting of the centrury. (Film Review)
posted by lisathatcher
Anyway you slice it, Mr. and Mrs. Smith is a contemporary classic – and yes yes yes, I know what the common contrarian thinking is on this issue, but the reason “everyone hates” Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie is the same reason that makes Mr. And Mrs. Smith work so perfectly well. There is something […]
May
23
The Young Tycoons – Darlinghurst Theatre Company and the resurrection of mistakes. (Theatre review)
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The Young Tycoons Darlinghurst Theatre Company and Spooky Duck Productions Eternity Playhouse 16 May to 15 June. Buy your tickets here. It’s a shame, in this county, we don’t have more theatrical satire on some of our greatest high-profile melodramas, because this form of humour seems to suit Australian wit perfectly. After all, it was […]
May
22
The Trip To Italy – La Dolce Eata. (Film Review)
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The trip to Italy opens in Sydney on the 29th of May 2014 Not being familiar with the previous incarnations of the Coogan/Brydon/Winterbottom food porn series, I wasn’t sure what to expect when I walked into the cinema to see The Trip To Italy, though I was pleasantly surprised to find it was an enjoyable […]
May
20
Touch – a Sydney Film Festival trailer Preview
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Touch will be screening at the Sydney Film Festival 2014. There are many good reasons to attend the 2014 Sydney Film Festival, but one of the best is the exciting list of Australian films that will be exhibited there. Touch is one of these films, making its World premiere at the festival. Check out the […]
May
20
Scenes from an Execution – Tooth and Sinew belt us with a rich serve of Howard Barker. (Theatre Review)
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Scenes From an Execution Tooth and Sinew in association with Sydney Independent Theatre Company The Old Fitzroy Theatre 13 – 31 May Buy Your Tickets Here. “I wish I were not sensual… I wish I had not got from my mother, or my father was it, this need to grasp and be grasped, because […]
May
19
The Sydney Film Festival 2014
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The Sydney Film Festival starts in just over two weeks time and the buzz has well and truly started – particularly seeing as the great man himself stars in one of the festival highlights – and I’m talking about Nick Cave here, not Robert Pattinson. So far the festival lineup is interesting with highlights such […]
May
19
Sunshine on Leith – Dexter Fletcher and 500 Miles of Feelgood. (Film review)
posted by lisathatcher
It’s interesting as you get older and you start to recognise true trends that encapsulate your particular generation, and this is sometimes a good thing and sometimes something completely odd comes out of left field and gives you a total WTF moment. Was it ever on the cards that Gen Xers would embrace feel good […]
May
19
Thom Pain (Based on Nothing) – David Jeffery uses social awkwardness to get closer. (Theatre review)
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Thom Pain (based on nothing). Sydney Independent Theatre Company Old Fitzroy Theatre Sitting in the dark, waiting for something to appear or happen on the stage, is a phenomena (not peculiar to theatre) that both unites and separates us. It is something we do together and yet it emphasises our aloneness as we collectively ‘wait’ […]
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