Box office success spawns sequels. Dinosaurs have always been big business, so why would the studio stop at the trilogy of Jurassic World movies? Now, three years after Jurassic World Dominion, we have a reboot. The series kicked off with three Jurassic Park movies, starting in 1993, before Jurassic World came along in 2015. The…
While I sincerely wish it weren’t so, the power struggles the proliferate globally ensure that Shake & Stir’s brilliant adaptation of George Orwell’s prescient and dystopian novel 1984 appear chillingly real. We are in Oceania, where Big Brother rules with an iron fist. What BB says goes. If he says 2 + 2 = 5,…
A surprisingly sensitive zombie movie, 28 Years Later reunites the writer and director of the original film in the franchise 23 years after 28 Days Later was released. I speak of Alex Garland (Ex Machina) and Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire). It has been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory…
I went to watch this play, like I do all others, without knowing anything other than its title. I never read the blurb on the website about what I am heading into, nor the program, which sometimes has playwright and director’s notes. In fact, Super’s program does contain playwright Emilie Collyer’s back story, which indicates…
Thirty years on Nick Enright’s play about young men and youths callous disregard for the fairer sex continues to resonate. Trash talk and surf culture go hand in glove in the fictitious seaside working-class suburb of Blackrock. After 11 months away, arrogant Ricko (Bailey Griffiths) – who others look up to – returns and resumes…
How difficult is it to find the perfect match, the person you are prepared to commit to for the rest of your life? If you buy into the conceit of the new romantic drama Materialists, it is a shark pool out there and finding Mr or Mrs Right is the stuff of nightmares. That is…
Evocative and entertaining, All is Good … in the Glow of Moonlight is a remarkable insight into the life and times of Soviet writer Isaac Babel and his creations. It is resplendent with vivid storytelling and fine music. Babel (played by Joseph Sherman) was born in Moldavanka, a historical part of Odessa, in the Russian…
Question: What does it take to really appreciate the life you have? Answer: Getting close to death. That is the conceit expertly explored by Andi Snelling in a zany, powerhouse show that grew out of the pain and despair she was feeling after being bitten by a tick. She contracted debilitating Lyme disease while on…
It is October 1915. Private James Martin (Oliver Tapp) is lying in bed on the hospital ship the Glenart Castle coughing his lungs out. Memories of his family back home in Australia come flooding back. This is the story of a boy who, after blackmailing his parents, enlisted in the Army, having falsified his age….
An unquestionable highlight of winter in Melbourne is Lightscape at the Royal Botanic Gardens. Now in its fourth year, it is bigger and better than ever, with many new and captivating light installations up above, in the trees and on the ground. It is a true A-lister, suitable for the whole family and how many…
