Being one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the last five years becomes a little tough to back up over time but I will tell you that Brooklyn’s Parquet Courts have struck gold again with their new long player Human Performance. It does not succeed because it gives you more of the same Parquet…
– Bastille Day – Only in cinemas from 12 May 2016 We have 5 double in-season passes thanks to StudioCanal. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE Michael Mason (Richard Madden – Game Of Thrones) is an American pickpocket living in Paris who finds himself hunted by the CIA when he steals…
– Spanish Film Festival 2016 – At Palace Cinemas in April and May We have 10 double in-season passes thanks to Transmission Films. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* The 2016 Spanish Film Festival evokes a wealth of emotions with dramas, romances, thrillers and major box-office hit comedies from across Spain, plus a selection of…
“The only thing I love more than a good documentary is a good music documentary,” says Australian filmmaker Lisa Nicol. “I love documentaries, which is probably why I wanted to make them myself. I’m a big fan of D B Pennebaker, Errol Morris, films like Hoop Dreams, the usual suspects,” she continues. Nicol studied communications…
Pygmalion, Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw’s humorous but pointed take on language and speech and their importance in society and in personal relationships, was first mounted on stage more than a century ago. Now Malvern Theatre Company has reprised the masterwork under the direction of Andrew Ferguson, who – along with Neil Barnett – is…
Comedian Glynn Nicholas has parlayed the cult following of the syrupy sweet Eurovision Song Contest into his often hilarious and decidedly agreeable new show, Song Contest. Eurovision is the longest-running annual international TV song competition that sees upwards of 20 European countries vying for the adulation that goes to the winner. Hundreds of millions of…
Some books you don’t want to end … except you do, because you’re dying to know what happened. Missing, Presumed is one of those books. Here’s the blurb: Detective Sergeant Manon Bradshaw soothes her insomnia with the din of the police radio she keeps by her bed. After another bad date, it takes the crackling voices…
Melissa McCarthy is the larger than life star of a movie co-written by her and her husband, Ben Falcone (who directs) and Steve Mallory. McCarthy’s character was brought up in an orphanage. One after another set of parents took her in briefly but then sent her back, indicating she “wasn’t the right fit”. But that…
An inspiring and uplifting documentary set in outback NSW, this is the story of a 130 strong children’s choir, which is renewed each year, thanks to the efforts of a local for whom this is a passion project. Every March Michelle Leonard steps into her car and heads west. Travelling more than 4,000 kilometres across…
Memory. The tricks of memory. I have recollections of what I believe to be ‘turning points’/’defining moments’ in my life and each time I replay them, either, mentally or verbally, both in speech and writing, they subtly change – more or less. If that ‘point’/’moment’ was between two of us, or more, each of us…
