A somewhat surprisingly worthy follow up to the new age retelling of Snow White, namely 2012’s Snow White and the Huntsman, this has clout as well as pyrotechnics. The Huntsman: Winter’s War is billed as a prequel. It tells how the Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth), also known as Eric, came to be. That involves the malevolent…
Rudyard Kipling’s timeless tales make for engaging family entertainment and are inevitably children’s favourites, whether they be straight animation or animation combined with live action, as is the case here. Bombay-born, English writer Kipling channeled his love of India in 1894’s “The Jungle Book,” following with “The Second Jungle Book” in 1895. Though considered kids’…
The premise of Michael Moore’s (Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling for Columbine) latest documentary is straightforward enough, namely what could America do better? … and the results are often hilarious. Moore plays the role of “invader”, visiting several countries to see what they are doing differently and the impact that difference is having on their populace. He…
The Un Certain Regard Best Film Prize winner at Cannes last year, this is a beautifully shot, slow moving story about a pair of estranged brothers and their sheep in small town rural Iceland. This pair is more obstinate than their animals. Siblings Gummi (Sigurður Sigurjónsson) and Kiddi (Theodór Júlíusson) have been living side by…
Death defying stunts, incredible strength, agility, flexibility, stamina and thrills aplenty are what modern circus is all about. Cirque Adrenaline has all that along with audience participation, courtesy of a cheeky clown. There is plenty to satisfy those who perhaps haven’t seen as many shows of this variety as I have. Littlies in particular will,…
I have been in The Gaslight Anthem’s corner since the beginning, so the last few records from the band have been somewhat tough to absorb as the group battles the desire to be popular with still trying to remain hip. From the group that gave us all the angst on their SideOneDummy albums they have…
A beaded collar, found scrunched at the bottom of a box of old junk. What’s its story? That’s what Maggie, a modern-day auctioneer in London, wonders when she finds the collar, cleans it, and recognises that once, long ago, it was someone’s precious thing. Drawing on her own love of finding precious things, author Kelly Doust delivers…
From the hand bill for this production at the New Theatre, of an adaption, by Richard Roxburgh and Justin Monjo, of Tim Winton’s 1986 novel, That Eye, The Sky: In a small Western Australian town 13 year-old Ort Flack is coming to terms with terrible changes in his world. His father lies paralysed in a…
Set in Frankfurt 13 years after the end of World War II and the Holocaust, Labyrinth of Lies is a picture of Germany – and the Nazis in particular – being pulled kicking and screaming to accountability for what was allowed to happen. Johann Radmann (Alexander Fehling) has recently been appointed Public Prosecutor and, like…
A French, Belgian and Canadian co-production that was nominated for a French César award, April and the Extraordinary World starts out with a great deal of promise. The year is 1941 and all the world’s leading scientists are seemingly disappearing off the face of the earth and no-one can explain how or why and the…
