Sleeping with Other People Won’t be reviewing I have a soft spot for Leslye Headland. Any woman who decides to re-write David Mamet to classic rom-com gets a big thumbs up from me. Also, I have an indefensible like of Bachelorette, a film that reaches inside of me, despite my embarrassment at the admission. There […]
Author Archives: lisathatcher
October
19
Articles at The Essential – How Denis Villeneuve domesticates Emily Blunt.
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Nope – not a fan of Sicario. Everywhere I go I see praise being heaped on Emily Blunt for her “bad ass” heroine Kate Macy, but for me, the role was a slap down after her great characterisation in Edge of Tomorrow. After all, she is criticised for not wearing lacy underwear in the field […]
October
17
Ghosts – The Depot Theatre rescues Ibsen from middle class theatre morality. (Theatre Review)
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Ghosts The Depot Theatre You can grab your tickets here Ibsen’s Ghosts is a classic, and like all classics it bares the burden of relevancy. I have recently seen the latest Game of Thrones inspired version of Macbeth (!) a film that broke its belly open trying to justify its own existence. For me, I […]
October
10
Black Mass – Deep chracterisation reveals there is no honour among theives. (Film review)
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Black Mass has been accused of unsuccessfully mimicking its predecessors such as Goodfellas. It’s a tedious and lazy comparison that again reinforces the over-hyped adulation of Scorsese and further entrenched that film in particular as the ultimate bench mark for gangster film perfection. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed Goodfellas, but it can’t defend […]
October
07
Pygmalion – UTS Backstage reveal the power of perspective. (Theatre Review)
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Pygmalion UTS backstage You can find out more about the production here. It is an all too rare thing to see post-structuralism embraced in the theatre in Sydney (we labor endlessly under the weight of Analytic philosophy here at the ass end of the world) but I am thrilled to say when it does raise […]
September
30
The Intern – Nancy Meyers on trend as usual. (Film Review)
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One of my favourite cinematic moments saw Mel Gibson as Nick Marshall listening to his daughter Alex (Ashley Johnson) through a toilet door as she cries and details the problems between herself and her boyfriend. When Nick tries to leap to her rescue she cuts him off and says “He’s a total player – I […]
September
28
A Steady Rain – A nightmarish confrontation with our double. (Theatre Review)
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The below is more of a critical analysis of A Steady Rain than a review. It is probably best appreciated after you have seen the play. For me the play contained strong elements of psychoanalysis and its a bad habit of mine to want to indulge whenever I’m provoked. I was moved by this play, […]
September
26
All the Difference – Sydney Fringe Festival (Theatre review)
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All The Difference Old 505 Theatre at The Sydney Fringe Festival You can grab your tickets here According to Bertolt Brecht, the temptation to rationalise the contemporary human condition falls too easily into an association with the forces at odds with humanization. “Even those writers who are conscious of the fact that capitalism impoverishes, dehumanizes, […]
September
23
Retrograde – Sydney Fringe Festival (Theatre Review)
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Retrograde 107 Projects – The Sydney Fringe Festival You can grab your tickets here The inaugural show for new theatre company Sandking Collective exhibits many of the reasons I gravitate toward and tend to prefer independent theatre. Primarily its the use of intimacy and the small space to engage in the most subversive of all […]
September
19
Shakespeare Tonight – Sydney Fringe Festival (Theatre Review)
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Shakespeare Tonight New Theatre, Sydney Fringe Festival You can grab your tickets here. We live an a fascinating, exciting and daunting time for literature. In an age when universities are business and innovative corporations are the sources of knowledge, writers and artists must respond to the changing way we perceive the world and understand who […]
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