Freak Winds Red Line Productions 10 March to 11 April Old Fitz Theatre – You can grab your tickets here. Photo credits – Tim Levy The Australian gothic has a rich, yet still under explored history in our countries artistic culture, usually recognisable in films from the 1970’s forward, and these days more likely to […]
March
16
Freak Winds – Marshall Napier’s homage to Australian gothic. (Theatre Review)
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March
12
Hamlet on Fort Denison – Sydney Shakespeare Company and overwhleming beauty. (Theatre review)
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Hamlet Sydney Shakespeare Company on Fort Denison every Monday evening through to April 27 You can grab tickets here (currently sold out, but look for more performances) There are many pleasures to be had on our Sydney foreshore, but few carry the cultural wit and charm of the Sydney Shakespeare Companies current production of Hamlet, […]
March
10
Top Five – Chris Rock finding his stride and hitting the mark. (Film Review)
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Top Five is a mish-mash of a Linklater-styled, black culture Before Sunrise set in New York and a schmaltzy rom-com playing by all the hack rules. I have yet to see a film where people wander around a city at night, alone or with a sig-oth that fails – it has to be one of […]
March
09
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him – Ned Benson from his POV. (SFF Film Review)
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This film opens in Sydney this week. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him is currently showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can grab your tickets here. You can read the review of The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigy: Her, here. It seems that Ned Benson writes men better than he writes women, as this version […]
March
09
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her – Ned Benson from her POV.(SFF Film Review)
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This film opens in Sydney this week. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby – Her is showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can grab your tickets here. The whole Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby project is better appreciated if you retain the idea of subtlety, keeping it as a filter of sorts through which to view […]
March
08
Kingsman: The secret Service – Lets take all the fun out of James Bond, shall we? (Film Review)
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Kingsman: The Secret Service is the first film that had me checking my watch not once, not twice but three times throughout the film, something I’ve not experienced since being forced to sit through X-Men, Days of Future Past. My personal experience of the film was terrible boredom laced with cringeworthy embarrassment for Colin Firth, […]
March
04
That Sugar Film – Damon Gameau goes Spurlock on sugar. (Film Review)
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Check out Damon’s website for lots of info about how to get yourself off sugar. That Sugar Film is the latest Super Size Me style offering, this time from Australian actor Damon Gameau. It’s a documentary similarly styled to the 2004 Morgan Spurlock film that attempts to do to sugar what Spurlock did to McDonald’s, […]
March
03
Queen Bette – The great pleasure of the bumpy night. (Theatre Review)
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Queen Bette The Old 505 Theatre, 25 February to 15 March You can grab your tickets here. “When I was most unhappy I lashed out rather than whined.” Given the profound difficulties all women have in Hollywood these days, it’s very hard to understand how Bette Davis secured the success, choices and freedoms she did […]
March
03
Vampire Lesbians Of Sodom – Don’t dream it, be it. (Theatre Review)
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Vampire Lesbians of Sodom Feb 25 through to March 7, Level 4 Kings Cross Hotel Theatre You can grab your tickets here. You may wonder at a statement that claims the Sydney theatre scene really needs Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, but a quick hop up to the Level 4 theatre at the Kings Cross hotel, […]
February
28
Pope Head: The Secret Life of Francis Bacon – Brutal Truth Decay! (Theatre Review)
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Pope Head – The Secret Life of Francis Bacon On at The Old Fitz Theatre from 24 feb to 6 March You can grab your tickets here It is often tempting (though less so these days) to think of ‘Reality’ as something of a surface, both concealing and transmitting unacknowledged thoughts, feelings and behaviours; not […]
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