Director Aaron Wilson has crafted a beautifully shot, sensitive story about love, loss and yearning with Little Tornadoes. We’re in small town, rural Australia in 1971. Leo (Mark Leonard Winter) is a steelworker whose wife has just left him without explanation. One day she just packed up all her things and disappeared. All that remains…
Based on fact comes The Fencer, a story about a man trying to escape his past. Fleeing from Stalin’s secret police in the early 1950s, an ambitious young fencer finds himself teaching small town children in a godforsaken Estonian coastal village. Endel Nelis (Mart Avandi) arrives in Haapsalu having fled from Leningrad. His riding instructions…
For the uninitiated, The Good Room’s productions can be difficult to define. The celebrated, independent company founded by Daniel Evans and Amy Ingram creates unique theatre experiences, often from community, crowd-sourced content. Continuing on from its previous Brisbane Festival successes, Let’s be Friends Furever follows a familiar format to pull together a celebration and commemoration…
– Hacksaw Ridge – Available on DVD and Blu-ray from 15 March 2017 We have 3 DVD copies of the film thanks to Icon Films. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE Winner of 9 AACTA awards & nominated for 6 Oscars, this all-Australian production marks the triumphant return of Academy Award winner,…
Formed in the fall of 1998, Dead Meadow rose out of the Washington, D.C. indie/punk scene and have continued to evolve their sound through each record into the heavy modern psych you hear today. This psych path was highlighted on their Levitation Session album that was released in 2021. Force Form Free truly spotlights why…
– The Fencer – Only in cinemas from 24 November 2016 We have 5 double in-season passes thanks to Palace Films. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE An audience favourite at the recent Scandinavian Film Festival, Klaus Härö’s elegantly crafted, multi award-winning drama is set in post-war, Soviet-occupied Estonia, and movingly depicts…
Liza’s Back! (is broken) sees celebrated Australian performer Trevor Ashley appearing in drag as the Broadway legend Liza Minnelli, straight out of rehab and ready to perform with her seven-piece band, despite her recently-broken back. In sequin pants suit, Ashley looks the part and moves to it too, with on-point mannerisms, albeit over-emphasised, as witty…
Back when I was reviewing for Brisbane’s Spectrum radio show I created the “Scottie” Awards. They were based entirely on my taste in entertainment and collated basically as a tribute the people who gave me a lot of pleasure and whose work I admire. This year I have decided to revive this annual event. So…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 14 August 2020. Siberian Tiger – the South Australian duo of Bree Tranter (The Middle East) and Chris Panousakis (Timberwolf) – have released their debut EP, First Dance. What started as a cathartic ritual soon began to take shape…
John Sturges’ classic 1960 western The Magnificent Seven made stars out of Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson and James Coburn (who all later appeared in Struges’ epic WWII adventure The Great Escape in 1963). Sturges’ film was inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s classic 1954 film The Seven Samurai, regarded by some critics as the greatest action movie…
