May 13

Lisa chats with Justin Fleming, author of His Mothers Voice. (Theatre Interview)

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His Mothers Voice – grab tickets here. My very wonderful conversation with Justin Fleming is one of the beautiful things that happened to me in the early days of April that was “delayed” by “life” getting in the path of my blogging and the virtual world that we all know is the really real anyway. […]

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May 13

Trainspotting – Black Box Theatre and Emu Productions take us to the dark side of ourselves. (Theatre review)

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Trainspotting Black Box Theatre and Emu Productions King Street Theatre till May 24. Buy Tickets here.  I saw Irvine Welsh at the Adelaide writers festival a few years back. He is an engaging speaker with a warm, generous personality, who puts up a convincing show of modesty. Among his many witty anecdotes was a consideration […]

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May 12

Antigone: The Burial at Thebes – ancient theatre reflects modern times. (Theatre Review)

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    At the time of this writing, the opportunity to see Antigone: The Burial at Thebes by Seamus Heaney produced by Furies Theatre Company has passed. Unfortunately a tight season for the play and an enormous imposition of real life for me coincided but I wanted to continue my review, because this is a […]

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May 10

Broken English – Zoe Cassavetes and the conversation we all avoid. (Film Review)

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The radical tension that underlies the romance genre is a kind of post modern reflexive in reverse. Where works, I’m thinking here mostly of books and films, seek to include an awareness of self in a clever catchall fashion, romance as a genre has the opposite problem of self-awareness; that is it is self-conscious in […]

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May 10

Skinny blogging

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Hello lovely readers, Apologies for skinny blogging of late – I had a particularly heavy Tax quarter with my day job (that is still ongoing), some big family commitments and then on top of it all I got a rather nasty dose of that flu that is going around, that took me quite a few […]

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May 07

The Double – Richard Ayoade and the Dostoevsky Dystopia. (Film Review)

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So here we arrive at Richard Ayoade’s second feature film, The Double, a take on the much admired novella by Dostoyevsky. The Double remains fairly close to the original writers narrative plot. For many reasons this is film belongs to Jesse Eisenberg and art director David Crank with Eisenberg coming off as more complex than […]

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May 06

Child’s Pose – Călin Peter Netzer and oppressive mother regimes. (SFF Film Review)

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I saw Child’s Pose 12 months ago at the Sydney Film Festival, but seeing as it is about to screen in Australia, I thought I would bring the review back to above the fold. This is an excellent film.   Child’s Pose is currently in competition at the Sydney Film Festival. It has previously won […]

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May 05

Belle – Amma Asante and an unlikely portrait. (Film Review)

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Please note: Belle opens in Australia this Thursday 8th of May, and this review contains a perspective that could constitute a spoiler. At the heart of Amma Assante’s Belle is a great story, no doubt about it, but it suffers in credibility by trying to have a bet both ways – a problem, it seemed, […]

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May 02

Plaything – Simon Dodd and the ultimate theatre of the absurd piss-take. (Theatre Review)

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  If there is one thing I regret about Simon Dodd’s Plaything, it is that it was only on for two nights at the Sydney Comedy Festival. So by the time of this review, all opportunities to see it will have been exhausted… that is, of course, until the next time it will be performed, because […]

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April 30

Pride and Prejudice – Genesian Theatre gives us some deep Austen love. (Theatre Review)

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  I love Pride and Prejudice, which I know, singles me out as completely ordinary among white western women. It’s a novel I read at least once a year, because by golly the woman can write. I’m not one of these who subscribes to the notion she wrote the first “romcom”  – which is nonsense […]

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