Spielberg returns to the history of war long after War Horse, the story of a stallion with a Lassie attitude during WWI, but not with heroic images of the battlefield as in Saving Private Ryan. Bridge of Spies takes place during the Cold War, a period during which espionage was commonplace and super powers completely…
Gerard Butler, as US Secret Service Agent Mike Banning, is clearly trying to outmuscle and outgun Bruce Willis, as NYDP police officer John McClane (Die Hard), if his latest high-octane thriller, London Has Fallen, is anything to go by. The intent is no let up in the action or in the suspense from go to…
One of my mantras has been when working in the theatre: “The writer is God.” I have always held the writer in the highest esteem, especially the playwright, and in my working as an actor, director or teacher of acting, I have always applied a kind of ‘forensic fanaticism’ to the writer’s words and clues,…
In 2012, Natasha Lester was my guest at one of my early Stories on Stage events. Few of the audience had heard of her; I was the only one who had read her two books. She was polished and professional; in fact, she was so well prepared that audience members were left open-mouthed at the end of her talk. Fast…
– Rams – Only in cinemas from 7 April 2016 We have 10 double passes to advance screenings (valid Easter weekend and 1 – 3 April ) thanks to Palace Films. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE Who would have thought that a tale about sheep in rural Iceland could bring tears…
Geoffrey Rush plays a thoroughly dislikable character in The Daughter, a story inspired by Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck, which screenwriter and director Simon Stone has also directed and adapted as a play. A slow-burn of a film, it is haunting and moody. In the last days of a dying logging town, Christian (Paul Schneider)…
One of the most complex and sophisticated animated features I have seen, Zootopia pits a high achiever rabbit alongside its natural predator, a cool and wily fox. The studio has a long and storied legacy of talking animals – from Mickey Mouse’s debut short, Steamboat Willie to Bambi, Dumbo, The Jungle Book and The Lion…
Nada Surf are back with their first batch of new tunes since 2012’s The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy. You Know Who You Are is the group’s eighth LP and fifth with Barsuk Records but marks a first as an official quartet with the core unit – singer/ songwriter/guitarist Matthew Caws, bassist Daniel Lorca and…
– Allegiant – Only in cinemas from 14 April 2016 We have 10 double in-season passes thanks to eOne Films. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE The action-packed third instalment of the blockbuster Divergent Series, Allegiant takes Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James) into a new world, far more dangerous…
– Absolutely Anything – On DVD and digital from 23 March 2016 We have 5 DVD copies thanks to Icon Films – Home Entertainment. *(Valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE In ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING, it’s comedy magic when Simon Pegg teams up with the voices of the Monty Python team to remind us…
