– BBC First British Film Festival – Only in cinemas from 25 October 2016 We have 10 double in-season passes thanks to Palace Cinemas. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Visit the official website HERE The fourth edition of the BBC First British Film Festival features a spread of international award-winners, crowd favourites, and Australian premieres….
A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer is heartfelt, bold, funny and heart-wrenching. It’s also a flawed blancmange as a piece of performance art that many will, no doubt, applaud. I love the energy and vitality of Bryony Kimmings. She’s one of the playwrights, and the narrator of the piece. The single mum tells a story of…
So joyful. So creative. So colourful. Simply astounding. I felt like a little kid, full of awe and wonder. Yes, these are my words. This is unquestionably one of the must-see exhibitions of your life, for there is nothing else like it. Forget balloons stretched, twisted and folded into a sausage dog. That is so…
German author Dirk Kurbjuweit’s first novel to be translated into English was Fear, based on his own experience of being stalked. His most recent book in translation (translated by Imogen Taylor) is a very different beast. Based on the shocking true story of Fritz Haarmann, the Butcher of Hannover, The Missing is more a thinly…
Australian actress, director and former head of the Queensland Theatre Company and the Sydney Theatre Company, Robyn Nevin, AO, is the type of figure who deserves applause upon her every stage entrance. That is what deservedly happens at the start of Christopher Hampton’s powerful play A German Life. Nevin plays Brunhilde Pomsel and shares the…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 22 November 2024. Kim Deal (above: photo by Alex de Cortehas) has shared her debut solo album Nobody Loves You More. In keeping with Deal’s meticulous approach to her art, the album was refined over several years; its oldest…
Andrew Bird has been busily carving out a unique place for himself among the indie/folk & rock movement as an artist in his own right ever since departing from work as an instrumentalist in the Squirrel Nut Zippers, for three albums in the late 90’s. Best known as a violinist, as a solo artist Bird…
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…
According to the reliable IMDb, The President’s Wife (released elsewhere as Bernadette) marks the 142nd screen appearance of the legendary Catherine Deneuve. Her career stretches back to the French New Wave of the 1960s, and includes some of the seminal films of Jacques Demy. She’s appeared in films by Roman Polanski, François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Melville…
Just why the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences chose to only nominate Hidden Figures for three Oscars (Best Film, Best Supporting Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay) one can only speculate. For mine, it is one of the films of the year. Hidden Figures is inspirational, poignant, infuriating, witty and warm, an ode to…
