A crowd pleaser based around sea shanties. That is Fisherman’s Friends, set in the picturesque fishing town of Port Isaac in Cornwall. Danny (Daniel Mays) is one of a group of four lads from London who work in a music talent agency. They decide to spend a stag weekend in Port Isaac and rock up…
Actor-director Bradley Cooper shows his success in A Star is Born was no fluke with Maestro. This impressionistic portrait of the conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein is technically dazzling, although its oblique approach may distance some viewers. As with A Star is Born, Cooper again pulls triple duty as director, actor (in the titular role…
Art meets technology as famous paintings by Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt and many more, are projected on an enormous scale in the new 360-immersive experience, Monet in Paris. Monet in Paris is a multi-sensory experience celebrating Claude Monet and the world’s most renowned artists of…
A heady novel of love, intrigue and taking chances, Fiona McIntosh’s The Last Dance is a book made for reading in bed all night long. I’ve had this on my shelf for a while, but as I do sometimes, I left it for a while, wanting it for the right moment (I do that with…
What was the overall feeling after watching Atomic Blonde? For me it was a mixture of confusion and excitement at the same time. Confusion because of the complex story with a multitude of twists and spy-related mumbo jumbo. To be honest, I always have that with this kind of movies. So you can assume that…
– Mr Holmes – Only in cinemas from 23 July 2015 We have 5 double in-season passes thanks to Transmission Films. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE The man behind the myth… Academy Award nominee Ian McKellen takes on the iconic role of Detective Sherlock Holmes, one of the British literature’s…
A dynamic score characterises a coming-of-age story. This is a rock musical about a young African American’s journey from Los Angeles to Europe. The starting point is 1976 and the youngster decides church isn’t for him. Rather, he has opted for Zen Buddhism. His mother won’t have any of it and hauls him off to hear the…
Box office success spawns sequels. Dinosaurs have always been big business, so why would the studio stop at the trilogy of Jurassic World movies? Now, three years after Jurassic World Dominion, we have a reboot. The series kicked off with three Jurassic Park movies, starting in 1993, before Jurassic World came along in 2015. The…
Ex Pilots began as Ethan Oliva’s solo project in 2015 with the release of Findlay, a compilation of demos from 2009. By 2019, the project evolved into a full band with the release of their excellent self-titled LP, which was remastered and reissued last year on Smoking Room. Now with a solid six-member lineup, Ex…
Thirteen years on, it may be difficult to recall just how spectacular and magical a movie Avatar is. I had the privilege of seeing it again in 3D and it stands up to the test of time magnificently. The technology remains wondrous. It won three Oscars, including one for visual effects. The theme of protecting…
