Touch will be screening at the Sydney Film Festival 2014. There are many good reasons to attend the 2014 Sydney Film Festival, but one of the best is the exciting list of Australian films that will be exhibited there. Touch is one of these films, making its World premiere at the festival. Check out the […]
May
20
Scenes from an Execution – Tooth and Sinew belt us with a rich serve of Howard Barker. (Theatre Review)
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Scenes From an Execution Tooth and Sinew in association with Sydney Independent Theatre Company The Old Fitzroy Theatre 13 – 31 May Buy Your Tickets Here. “I wish I were not sensual… I wish I had not got from my mother, or my father was it, this need to grasp and be grasped, because […]
May
19
The Sydney Film Festival 2014
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The Sydney Film Festival starts in just over two weeks time and the buzz has well and truly started – particularly seeing as the great man himself stars in one of the festival highlights – and I’m talking about Nick Cave here, not Robert Pattinson. So far the festival lineup is interesting with highlights such […]
May
19
Sunshine on Leith – Dexter Fletcher and 500 Miles of Feelgood. (Film review)
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It’s interesting as you get older and you start to recognise true trends that encapsulate your particular generation, and this is sometimes a good thing and sometimes something completely odd comes out of left field and gives you a total WTF moment. Was it ever on the cards that Gen Xers would embrace feel good […]
May
19
Thom Pain (Based on Nothing) – David Jeffery uses social awkwardness to get closer. (Theatre review)
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Thom Pain (based on nothing). Sydney Independent Theatre Company Old Fitzroy Theatre Sitting in the dark, waiting for something to appear or happen on the stage, is a phenomena (not peculiar to theatre) that both unites and separates us. It is something we do together and yet it emphasises our aloneness as we collectively ‘wait’ […]
May
19
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice – Lane Cove Theatre Company back by popular demand. (Theatre Review)
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The Rise and Fall of Little Voice Lane Cove Theatre Company New Theatre Newtown – buy tickets here. Thu – Sat 7:30pm, Sun 5pmFinal performance, Sat 24 May 5pm A girl who can only speak in the voice of others as she communicates with her dead father and a woman who never shuts up and […]
May
17
Something to be Done – Gabatwa Productions and the art of the body. (Theatre review)
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Something To be Done Gabatwa Studios – buy tickets here. Tap gallery From 13 May to 1 June A striking image heralds the start of Gabriel McCarthy’s one man show, Something to be done. McCarthy himself inside a tulle bag, his grip evoking a closed off womb space. He wakes, and finding himself stranded […]
May
16
Godzilla – Gareth Edwards and the Godzilla film we had to have. (Film review)
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Godzilla is one of those film legacies, a little like James Bond, who managed to collapse retro chic with contemporary perspective due to several key happy accidents of politics and style throughout the years. The original 1954 Honda film carried its anti nuclear War themes (it was made only nine years after the bombing of […]
May
14
The Broken Circle Breakdown – Felix Van Groeningen and the attraction of opposites. (Sydney Film Festival Film Review)
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This is a review I did for the Sydney Film Festival twelve months ago, but seeing as it is about to open in Sydney, I’ll bring the review forward to here. The Broken Circle Breakdown is Felix Van Groeningen’s fourth film. It is in competition at the Sydney Film festival this year and you […]
May
14
His Mothers Voice – bAKEHOUSE Theatre Company and a cast of millions. (Theatre Review)
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His Mothers Voice bAKEHOUSE Theatre Company ATYP 30/4/14 through to 17/5/14 You can grab your tickets here. In Mao Zedong’s 1937 essay “On Contradiction” he further examines the theories of Marx and Lenin around dialectical materialism and the idea of the contradictions that, for Marx, provided the impetus for further human evolution but for Mao, […]
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