Panic Room is the first time we see a genuinely intellectually bereft David Fincher, but it won’t be the last, and it probably is no coincidence that it exists hot on the heels of one of Fincher’s least successful films, which ironically will become one of his most popular. Sandwiched between Fight Club and Zodiac, […]
September
29
The Films of David Fincher – Fight Club (Film Review)
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If Fincher works in tandems, runs his films in partnerships ( the serial killer duo Se7en and Zodiac, The airport novel duo TGWTDT and Gone Girl, the style over substance duo TCCaseOBB and The Social Network) then there is no doubt that Fight Club runs hot off the heels of The Game. Their central message, […]
September
29
Films of David Fincher – The Game (Film Review)
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The Game is one of those films that’s received more credibility over the years as history has caught up to central premise, which is not that bankers are supercilious dickheads drunk on Ayn Randian Kool-Aid who couldn’t last five minutes in a genuinely competitive environment (even if that might be true and a building block […]
September
28
The Films of David Fincher – Se7en. (Film Review)
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Se7en is the second time David Fincher has insisted on a weirdo number title that doesn’t make much sense other than to look kewl, but fortunately it is the last. It is also the first time we see Fincher in all his 126 minute glory after the debacle three years earlier of the third […]
September
28
The Films of David Fincher – Alien³ (Film review)
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Alien³ has become a sort of poster-film for a how-not-to on so many levels it seems unfair to start the career of a director with the film-feel clout of David Fincher this way, a complaint we all now know has been made by Fincher himself many times, including in the now famous quote that I […]
September
27
All The Single Lad(ie)s – Blurred gender lines at PACT for Fringe (Theatre Review)
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All The Single Lad(ie)s 24 to 27 September PACT centre for emerging artists. You can grab tickets here. Complications between the sexes are not new, however they are evolving and with each passing year, our ability to articulate what goes on between men and women (if such creatures really exist) gains traction, particularly since philosophies […]
September
27
Brother Daniel – Collaborations theatre take us from hero to zero. (Theatre review)
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Brother Daniel Collaborations Theatre Group at the Tap Gallery September 24 to October 5. You can grab your tickets here. Images by Mark Banks It is currently the fashion among those who fancy themselves to be on the higher end of the IQ scale, to contextualise the death of god as the refusal of an […]
September
23
The Chairs – SUDS at the Sydney Fringe. (Theatre Review)
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The Chairs SUDS at The Sydney Fringe Festival 23 September to 26 September – You can grab tickets here. No fringe festival would be complete without the local university dramatic society giving us a non-Shakespearean classic. It’s surely one of the staples of any fringe festival, and a chance for a classic to be openly experimented […]
September
21
The vegetable Plot – Kids win at The Sydney Fringe (Kids show/Music review)
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The Vegetable Plot Sydney Fringe on the 20th and 21st of September. You can grab tickets here, or check out The Vegetable Plot website here. The funky get-with-it-world of child entertainment seems to get blessed with more and more talent every day, as changing societal norms allow parented creatives to ‘diversify’ rather than go on […]
September
20
Four Dogs and Bone – Kate Gaul at the Sydney Fringe (Theatre review)
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Four Dogs and a Bone Brief Candle Productions with SITCO for Sydney Fringe 16 to 27 September You can grab your tickets here. Photo credits – Katy Green-Loughrey There is a peculiar immodesty in writing that assumes fame and money will naturally follow recognition, when overwhelmingly, the converse is true – that even when success […]
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