It’s rude, it’s crude, it sets out to push the envelope and succeeds in doing so, but is also quite clever. I’m talking about Sausage Party, an animated feature from the warped minds of Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Jonah Hill. The language is full on. From the outset, it is rampantly sexual with the cartoon…
A remarkably adept, clever and enchanting tale of illusion and dance, Shadowland, by internationally acclaimed troupe Pilobolus* – founded in 1971 – also includes circus elements. As the first theatrical event of its kind to tour the globe, the 80-minute show without interval incorporates multiple moving screens of different sizes and shapes. It is a…
In Bad Moms – the new comedy from the writers of The Hangover (Jon Lucas and Scott Moore), who in this case also direct – Amy (Mila Kunis) has a seemingly perfect life: a great marriage, over-achieving kids, a beautiful home and a great job. In reality, she’s over-worked, over-committed and exhausted to the point…
Winner of five Goya Awards (the Spanish equivalent of the Oscars), Truman is a bittersweet comedy/drama, which screened during the recent Spanish Film Festival earlier in the year. It was one of the more popular films in the festival and now it gets a cinema release. This amusing and deeply affecting film deals with universal…
After nearly a decade as a band, three albums and countless tours across Australia, the US and UK, beloved Brisbane band The John Steel Singers have announced that they will be going on hiatus following their national tour this month. In a letter to fans, the band wrote: Now that it sounds like we’re breaking up I…
Betrayal, by Harold Pinter was written in 1978, and belongs to his great middle period, and along with other works like No Man’s Land (1975) and Old Times, is often characterised as one of his ‘memory plays’. Pinter was given the Nobel prize for Literature in 2005. This play uses reverse chronology, and so the…
– The Man Who Knew Infinity – Releasing on DVD on 7 September 2016 We have two prize packs* thanks to Icon Home Entertainment. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE In the tradition of The Imitation Game, The Theory of Everything and A Beautiful Mind, comes THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY. Dev…
Making his English language debut, Norwegian director Joachim Trier has crafted a tricky relationship movie with deep-seated feelings at its core in Louder Than Bombs. Three years after the untimely death of celebrated war photographer Isabelle Reed (Isabelle Huppert), her eldest son Jonah (Jesse Eisenberg), married with a recently born child, returns to his family…
The Melbourne International Film Festival is currently in full swing – and will be for the next week. With so many films to choose from, it can be a daunting exercise to know what to seek out. Luckily, our intrepid reviewer, Greg King, has been dashing between venues and missing sleep to take in as…
Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds’ fourth album for In The Red Records, La Araña Es La Vida summons the Mexican muse of The Great Spider Goddess of Teoticuhan, who sprouts hallucinogenic morning glories and protects the underworld, or in Kid’s eyes, the world of underground music. Recorded in a high school gym in Kansas, guitar slinger and…
