If you want to see a show full of feel good, life affirming entertainment, you should look no further than The Choir of Man. Straight from London’s West End, it is sensational. Music, revelry and heartfelt exchanges with the audience are the name of the game and the punters get to join it even before the show…
Shocking, racially motivated fires – arson – in Germany in 1993 resulted in the death of five Turks. More than 30 years later, Mehmet Akif Buyukatalay’s clever satire Hysteria – the centrepiece of the German Film Festival – fans the flames of discontent. Buyukatalay’s second film focuses on a movie being made about those real-life…
A Zen experience involving the late, great Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto (17th January, 1952 – 28th March, 2023), Kagami fuses music with technology. Before he passed, he collaborated with mixed-reality pioneers Tin Drum to create a final concert that will endure. Through cutting-edge technology, Kagami enables us to feel as if Sakamoto is performing directly…
– Russian Resurrection Film Festival – Screening from 23 October 2015 We have 10 double session passes thanks to the festival. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Eighteen new Russian films will premiere at the 12th Russian Resurrection Film Festival, playing at venues in Australia and New Zealand during October and November. Along with this selection…
A mighty quirky film about a grossly dysfunctional family with a fiesty and determined young woman at its core, Joy is the latest offering from acclaimed writer/director David O. Russell (The Fighter, Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle). This dramatic comedy asks the question what makes up the magic of a life? What keeps a person…
It seems to be a film a year in the “After” teen-romance franchise, and now we’re onto the fourth. Unless you’ve seen the others you might find it difficult to follow the threads because the action just starts with a presumption of character knowledge. The series began with After in 2019, followed by After We…
– Miss Sloane – Only in cinemas from 2 March 2017 We have 10 double in-season passes thanks to Roadshow Films. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE Starring Jessica Chastain, John Lithgow, Alison Pill and Jake Lacy, MISS SLOANE tells the thrilling story of Elizabeth Sloane (Jessica Chastain), the most sought-after and…
My 1953 edition of Webster’s Dictionary provides this definition of diplomacy: “dexterity; skill; tact; shrewdness in managing affairs of any kind”. And these are exactly the qualities which writer Cyril Gély has so cleverly enshrined in his masterpiece play Diplomacy. Originally written in French, the translation and adapted version by Julie Rose I’m sure has…
Richard III is a play written by William Shakespeare c. 1592, early in his career. The Bell Shakespeare’s Richard 3 is a dramaturgical collaboration between director, Peter Evans and actor Kate Mulvany using the Shakespeare original. The play has been hand-crafted with this actor and company in mind, it seems. This is their third collaboration…
The story of the younger years of an ordinary man, August celebrates the beauty of the small things and the purity of experiences that can be had in living a simple life. A thoughtful novel that seems oddly placed in time, August has much to say about what it is to grow up as a…
