Underworld: Blood Wars – the fifth film in the franchise – comes four years after Underworld: Awakening, but it has little that is new to offer. Maybe it’s time to bring the saga to an end as it shows signs of running out of ideas. Kate Beckinsale dons the skin tight leather outfit again to…
A warm-hearted, comedic drama about overcoming challenges and dealing with adversity to become your best self, Shoelace Chaser readily resonates. Seventeen-year-old Thea (Leigh Lule) is in her last year at a public school and is a very fast runner. But two years ago, she gave up on a promising athletics future to attend to her…
Razor sharp writing by Joanna Murray-Smith (featuring acerbic put downs), and bravura acting performances, are features of the brilliant two-hander Switzerland. The focus is the best-selling author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Patricia Highsmith, who is living as a recluse in the Swiss alps. She finds solace in her seclusion, her cats, her booze and…
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I can’t think of an actress who has epitomised class, style and magnetism more than the late, great Audrey Hepburn (1929 – 1993). The documentary Audrey charts her life’s course. Notwithstanding remarkable and well-deserved success, there was also much pain and sadness. She was just a young girl when her parents split and war broke…
The original Mary Poppins, which came out in 1964, was a near-perfect blend of fantasy and music. Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke tripped the light fantastic and showed us how a family film should be. Fifty-five years on the world is a vastly different place. Expectations have changed. Technology has morphed. Children expect sophistication….
Disgraced is the 2013 Pulitzer Prize winning play by Ayad Akhtar. This is the typical well made American play that I talked about in my entry about The Whale. A small cast of five in a single setting with a subtly disguised exposition that introduces the protagonists with their differences and backgrounds. Emily (Sophie Ross),…
– Russell Hobbs British Film Festival – In Palace Cinemas nationally from 6 November – 8 December 2024 We have 5 double passes to a session at the Festival (excluding special events) Note: Tickets are digital. They are individually barcoded and invalid once redeemed. As with printed tickets they can be presented (printed or digitally)…
The creativity and excellence in diverse forms of movement and the emotion it generated in Week 1 of Dance X continues with aplomb into Week 2. The major program has four companies each performing a short work over a total of two hours including interval, at Playhouse in Arts Centre Melbourne. Stephanie Lake Company’s Auto…
First, a confession. I don’t believe I’ve seen any of the films in the Saw franchise before Jigsaw, the eighth in the series. The seventh, Saw 3D, came out in 2010. To date, the Saw films have grossed $874 million worldwide. And they’ve created one of the most influential horror villains of all time. The films follow…
