Pinball Duck Duck Goose / Tap Gallery Theatre 11-28 February Tickets available here. A recurring thought, as I watched Pinball the other night, was how much I would have loved to study this play, or any other written by Alison Lyssa as I was reading and studying The Removalists, The Club, Don’s Party or any […]
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February
14
Pinball – Alison Lyssa brought to new life by Duck Duck Goose. (Theatre review)
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February
14
A Boy and a Bean – Nick Atkins addresses the questions you didn’t know you were asking. (Theatre Review)
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A Boy and a Bean PACT Centre for Emerging Artists Feb 12 – 15. A Boy and a Bean tickets for sale here. I as talking to a very bright, warm-hearted person in the last twelve months (politically pro same-sex marriage) about the talents of Heath Leger and the sadness of his death. I expressed […]
February
14
Short and Sweet – Ten minute theatre that reveals us to ourselves. (Theatre/Festival review)
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Short and Sweet Festival King Street Theatre and Seymour Centre 8 January 2014 through to 31 March 2014 Buy tickets to the Short and Sweet heats here. It was a journey that started with a burst into first world problems, traveled through a euthanasia clinic, rotating a few times around a loop of learned experience, […]
February
11
Great Expectations – Alfonso Cuarón and the horrible mistake. (Film Review)
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The story of Alfonso Cuarón’s adaptation of Great Expectations has become, after sixteen years and many exciting films, a perpetual essay in what went horribly wrong with this film. Cuarón defenders group together to lay ‘blame’ at the feet of Mitch Grazer, who to be fair had only the Dickens adaptation credits of Scrooged ten years earlier […]
February
10
Bite Me – Anthony Skuse and The Voices Project. (Theatre Review)
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Bite Me ATYP Studio Theatre, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay February 5-22, 2014 Book for Bite Me here. When a director agrees to present the ten chosen plays from the ATYP The Voices project, they are agreeing to find a way beyond the key theme to connect the disparate voices which, if the project has been […]
February
10
A little Princess – Alfonso Cuarón steps out into a magical world of green. (Film Review)
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Without having seen Alfonso Cuarón’s Sólo Con Tu Pareja (Only with your Partner), I’m forced to begin my journey through his films with A Little Princess. It’s a shame (I just haven’t been able to get my hands on the film yet) because Sólo Con Tu Pareja is important in the green period, plus its the film […]
February
09
Blue is the Warmest Color – Abdellatif Kechiche and the aching intimacy of love. (Film Review)
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I wondered, after reading so many of the criticisms of Blue is the Warmest Color (note: almost all were written by straight people) if there had been any gay directors who have misrepresented straight sex through the ages in film. Gay actors and actresses have certainly played straight lovers in hetro sex scenes, sometimes well, sometimes […]
February
07
The Decendants – The end of the unpleasant man and the start of the unpleasant film. (Film Review)
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It’s eleven yeas later in 2011, and we haven’t seen a new Payne film, and this absence of a much-loved film maker might account for the disproportionate worship The Descendants received when it finally hit the screens; immediately obvious is the absence of Jim Taylor who, we can now safely contend, was primarily responsible for […]
February
06
Sideways – Alexander Payne and the mid-life crises Odyesey. (Film review)
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Alexander Payne’s second most successful film to date – his most up until Nebraska – is also arguably his funniest, if you like conversational wit over quirky charm, because its best competition is and always will be the titular Payne film (that incidentally is nothing like any other Payne film) Election. Now two films and […]
February
05
About Schmidt – Alexander Payne and the Odyessy of the anti hero. (Film Review)
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There are many images in Alexander Payne’s films that stick with his audiences, but it has to be admitted that Kathy Bates’ outrageously sexy BBW nudity is one of the most thrilling, being one of the most audacious and confronting acts of unashamed sexual drive in the history of American cinema, and earning that actress […]
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