Guy Ritchie is a polarising figure in the world of cinema. Just about everyone you care to talk to will say they love his early work – Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000) – but he then blotted his copybook with the widely-panned 2002 misadventure Swept Away, starring then-wife Madonna. But…
In Crook Manifesto, multi award winning author Colson Whitehead returns to the Harlem of Ray Carney for some continuing adventures in crime in his follow up to 2021’s Harlem Shuffle. Similar in structure to the first book, Crook Manifesto comprises three long short stories, each some time on from the last. Through these stories Whitehead…
These days you can’t make a superhero movie without reference to the multiverse – and so it is in the latest DC offering, The Flash. The nerdish, insecure Barry Allen (Ezra Miller), who works in criminal forensics, is the voraciously hungry pivotal figure. As The Flash, he is a founding member of The Justice League,…
– The Taste of Things – Only in cinemas from 2 May 2024 We have 5 double in-season passes thanks to Rialto Distribution. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE Eugenie, an esteemed cook, has been working for over the last 20 years for Dodin, a fine gourmet. Growing fonder of one another,…
This movie may have passed you by the first time as a sleeper and if so, now is the perfect time to bring it forward in your Netflix queue. A glorious revenge splatterfest set in an impoverished American suburb, I Don’t Feel at Home in this World Anymore is movie gold. Movies don’t always have…
Johnny Saxby (Josh O’Connor, from TV series Peaky Blinders) is a sullen, morose young man working on his family farm in Francis Lee’s God’s Own Country. Since his father Martin (Ian Hart) suffered a debilitating stroke, he has had more responsibility loaded on his shoulders. It’s a hard and often lonely life for Johnny. He…
Australian indie-electronica luminaries, Miami Horror have announced their Australian home-coming album tour for August 2015. After releasing their widely praised sophomore album All Possible Futures in April and then selling out both North & South American tours the band will return home to Australia playing shows in Adelaide, Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne & Hobart. Dates and venues are: 7 Aug – Villa, Perth 8 Aug –…
The insidious use of power in an unlikely setting is the basis for The Teacher, a wickedly clever black comedy. The film is inspired by the true story of a Communist-era schoolteacher who manipulated her pupils and their families for unprecedented personal gain. Jan Hřebejk (Divided We Fall) directs. It is the early 1980s and the…
Sitting there watching Fifty Shades Freed, the final instalment in the Shades of Grey trilogy, I could only think, “Lame, tame and who to blame?” So very little happens … for so much of the film. Yes, the characters have sex – most of it conventional and a few turns in the red room – but that,…
Two is play by Jim Cartwright written in 1989. It is a play for two actors playing fourteen characters. Two, like Mr Cartwright’s first and famous play, Road (1986), comes from his identity and personal ownership of the private dilemmas of his community, focusing on the marginalised and disenfranchised. He was born in Farnsworth, Lancashire,…
