Year of the Abbott September 6 @8:30pm September 7 @6:00pm September 27 @9:30pm Sydney Fringe Festival – Grab Your Tickets here. Sydney’s come a long way in the last five or six years. The ‘arty types’ have successfully revealed there is more than bling to the wealthiest City in Australia. Part of […]
September
07
Year of the Abbott – Sydney Fringe Festival 2014 (theatre review)
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September
03
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea – Heated swimming with Little Spoon Theatre co. (Theatre Review)
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Danny and the Deep Blue Sea Little Spoon Theatre Company At the time of publishing this critique, this performance is finished. One of the great mysteries about love, is that what a person needs and what they can provide are often inversely proportionate to qualities in the person they desire. We have sexual attraction, emotional […]
August
26
Constellations – Nick Payne, chance and free will. (Theatre Review)
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Constellations Darlinghurst Theatre Company 13 August – 7 September You can grab your tickets here. Qantam mechanics and the theory of relativity are the already becoming tired symbols of “intelligence”. they are particularly thrilling in the wake of the weird idea we got that science could replace God – despite not being completely sure of […]
August
26
Magic in the Moonlight – Woody Allen slowly losing his magic. (Film Review)
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Woody Allen’s films are hit and miss, with his hits being little gems and his misses being endured for the sake of the hits. Sometimes he can make a truly brilliant heavy-weight film (Husbands and Wives) but then he can also make something superb out of light-weight fluff (Midnight in Paris). Sometimes his gems are […]
August
25
The Essential Film reviews. Current reviews posted elsewhere.
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I’ve covered some of the current films showing over at The Essential, so I thought I’d give all my lovely readers a heads up. Palo Alto A film I greatly enjoyed, even if it seemed as though Sophia Copola played it a little too safe: “Events shaping us are as meaningless as those we […]
August
25
Locke – Steven Knight and the midnight flight. (Film Review)
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It’s not quite the museum piece Steven Knight might have been hoping for, but Locke certainly is a remarkable one-man-show of a film that is smart and classy enough to be a game changer for Knight as a director and for Tom Hardy as a remarkably skillful leading man. One of those films that […]
August
24
Boyhood – Richard Linklater over 12 years. (Sydney Film Festival 2014 Review)
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Boyhood is showing at The Sydney Film Festival 2014 – you can purchase tickets here. The biggest miracle, and there are many to be had, in Richard Linklater’s epic twelve years in the making two and a half hour long bildungsroman Boyhood, is the understated execution of the project released with minimalism and a […]
August
19
Bessons Women who Kick Ass – The very brilliant Lucy (Film Review)
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There is a poignant moment in Lucy, when having a brain that has ‘evolved’ way beyond the minds of those around her, Lucy (Scarlett Johanson) turns to Pierre Del Rio (Amr Waked) the macho cop in the film, after he says to her “You don’t need me.” She kisses him in an agressive way and […]
August
18
Begin Again – John Carney with more lost indie music souls. (Film Review)
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It’s an exciting experience when a film that looks predictable, that you expect to follow a certain set of rules, suddenly breaks out of its own self-imposed jail with a surprise that warms the heart so well, the rest of the film is made good. I am talking about one particular scene in Begin Again, […]
August
11
Bad Day Insurance – Lisa Chappell and our hopes for a better future. (Theatre Review)
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Bad Day Insurance The Old 505 Theatre August 6 – 24. You can grab your tickets here. What is the ultimate Bad Day Insurance? That is, what can you control, that can be relied upon to repair the damage caused by a bad day? Is that what insurance is? A stop-gap between you and trouble? […]
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