For better or worse, there’s only one Woody Allen. The master of that dry, self-deprecating New York wit is back with Café Society, a film that strikes me as possibly one of his most personal — as it serves as a kind of love letter to two things Allen clearly cares deeply about – old movies…
“All writers are procrastinators,” laughs filmmaker Nicholas Verso, the director of a new Australian coming of age drama Boys In The Trees. We’re sitting on the outdoor rooftop bar of QT, the newest boutique hotel/bar in Melbourne, built on the site of what was once the Russell Street Cinemas. It seems a fitting location to…
– BBC First British Film Festival – Only in cinemas from 25 October 2016 We have 10 double in-season passes thanks to Palace Cinemas. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Visit the official website HERE The fourth edition of the BBC First British Film Festival features a spread of international award-winners, crowd favourites, and Australian premieres….
Inanely silly, slapstick comedic and fun, it is hard to believe that Masterminds is based upon a true story and wasn’t simply a late night, tall-tale concoction. It follows the riotous misadventures of unlikely anti-hero David Ghantt (Zach Galifianakis) as he pulls off one of the largest robberies in U.S. history. He is painted as…
Kishi Bashi (Kaoru Ishibashi) has released his third full-length album and it’s quite a departure for the artist. Kishi Bashi’s first two albums have been hybrids of chamber pop and electronic music. That Ishibashi featured the violin prominently in his music gave him a niche that was both different and interesting. That debut album, 151a,…
Do Something Else is a new work devised by two dancers Cloe Fournier and Ryuichi Fujimura and sculptor/theatre maker Bridget Vidler with director Michael Pigott. Says Mr Pigott: “I was interested in seeing if you could make theatre that emulates thought processes, the different ways that we deal with material within our own minds; dreams,…
Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary Performance is a deeply moving, richly rewarding film of the play performed at the Prince Edward Theatre in London in 2014 to mark the quarter century of a superb musical. The epic love story tells the tragic tale of young bar girl Kim, orphaned by war, who in 1975 falls in…
Not to be confused with The Handmaid’s Tale — Margaret Atwood’s Booker Prize nominated dystopian novel with a strong feminist slant, which was filmed in 1990 with Natasha Richardson and Faye Dunaway — The Handmaiden is a loose adaptation of Sarah Waters’ Booker Prize nominated novel Fingersmith, which was set in Victorian England, and offers…
In late 1997 Anu Singh, a beautiful law-student in Canberra killed her boyfriend Joe Cinque after months of telling friends and colleagues she planned to kill herself and take him with her. Despite the warnings, no one stopped her. Joe Cinque’s Consolation is the screen adaptation of Helen Garner’s celebrated account of those events. It…
I never thought I would miss Will Smith in a movie. Well, for everything there’s a first time. And damn, I missed our friend Smith in this sequel to the blockbuster Independence Day from 1996. Not because of his acting talent or his good looks; but because of his dry humor and his sometimes hyperactive…
