Sound quality was the only sour note in an at times uproariously funny opening night for First Date The Musical, a comedic musical about a hook up between a serial dater and a nerd. With a book by Austin Winsberg and music and lyrics by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner, the show – inspired by…
The idiosyncratic, quirky and offbeat coming of age tale Girl Asleep has more in common with the droll style of Napoleon Dynamite and the films of Wes Anderson than the sweet-natured rom-coms of the late John Hughes. It also plays with the familiar tropes of the genre, and embraces the mystery and trauma of growing…
Carrying shades of Sicario and Payback, Mel Gibson returns to the big screen in the action-thriller Blood Father as Link, an ex-con who has done all manner of bad things, but is now wanting to turn his life around. With an ex-wife who doesn’t want to talk to him and a daughter he’s lost touch…
In Nerve, the title refers to a popular on-line social media game in which competitors are set challenges, a bit like an internet version of Fear Factor. The more dangerous the challenge, the more money a person can make, but if you fail to complete the challenge you get nothing. All of the challenges have…
The concept for this special show involving fluid movement, imagery and digital media arose when French artistic director and choreographer Mourad Merzouki met multidisciplinary artists Adrien Mondot and Claire Bardainne. PIXEL, which was created in November 2014, is a melding of the real and virtual worlds. It combines dance with the abstract for 70 minutes…
This tense, claustrophobic thriller cleverly inverts the premise behind such thrillers as Wait Until Dark and Blind Terror, in which a vulnerable blind woman was terrorised by killers until she fought back. Here though it is a blind person who is doing the terrorising. And it is a surprisingly effective thriller that grips until the…
The ultimate relationship conundrum, Longevity is a love triangle with a difference. Girl A, a student by the name of Lance (Bee Townsend), meets Girl B, Juliet (Fiona Scarlett), an artist and there is an immediate attraction. They begin a long-term relationship that keeps on keeping on for five years. In the fifth year Girl…
The Coen brothers have given us some great films, like the brilliant Fargo and the Oscar winning No Country For Old Men, which is why their latest offering is a little disappointing by comparison. With Hail, Caesar! the filmmaking siblings return to the Golden Years of Hollywood in the 50s, which was the backdrop of…
History shown through the gentle, softening eyes of love – that’s what to expect with Anita Heiss’s latest read, Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms. Here’s the blurb: Over 1000 Japanese soldiers break out of the No.12 Prisoner of War compound on the fringes of Cowra. In the carnage, hundreds are killed, many are recaptured, and…
Sydney’s favourite four part harmony folk powerhouse All Our Exes Live In Texas have announced plans for a massive national tour this October after an appearance at the Lorne Festival in Victoria. All Our Exes Live In Texas have been putting the finishing touches on their upcoming debut album When We Fall so are promising…
