With more than a touch of Slumdog Millionaire about it, this is a funny, touching and unlikely tale of two mischievous brothers who live with their mother and grandmother in a Chennai slum. Their father is in jail, and although there are a couple of scenes in the movie between he and his wife, we…
The first time I saw Marcus Mumford perform songs from his band Mumford & Sons was at the Factory Theatre in 2008. He was supporting Laura Marling on her first Australian tour (as well as playing as part of her band) and his set was just him with a guitar, kick drum and kick tambourine….
Kate Morton is one of my favourite mainstream Australian writers; the type of books she writes – gothic-style mystery with old houses and buried secrets – are my favourite. There’s something incredibly romantic about big old houses, once-beautiful but now tangled old gardens, yellowing letters, haunting secrets, ghostly apparitions … they put me in a…
Justice or revenge? If someone close to you was murdered, what would you want and what would happen if you didn’t get what you wanted? That conundrum is at the heart of this thriller. I like a good police whodunit, an involving mystery that entangles you until the final frames. You might think you have…
A taut, tense drama-cum-thriller that doesn’t let up from start to finish, 99 Homes concerns a ruthless businessman and his questionable ethics, and a single father facing eviction. You could sum it up with the words “sleeping with the devil”. Andrew Garfield plays Dennis Nash, a tradie who simply isn’t getting by. He lives with…
The Hunger Games franchise has so far grossed more than US$2.2 billion at the global box office. It is based upon the runaway success of the novel trilogy by Suzanne Collins, which was released between 2008 and 2010. Mockingjay Part 2 is the fourth and final movie in the series (the first came out in…
– Young Ones – On DVD, Blu-ray and digital from 9 December 2015 We have 2 DVD prize packs^ thanks to Icon Film Distribution. *(Valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE A stunning sci-fi tale of revenge and violence set in a post-apocalyptic, drought-ravaged future. After fighting off raiders to protect what little…
The Darlinghurst Theatre and the Enright family have joined together to produce a-play-a-year by Australian writer, Nick Enright. Last year they produced together Daylight Saving, next year, A Man with 5 Children. In the Eternity Playhouse, Iain Sinclair has directed Enright’s Good Works (1994). Good Works presents the story of two families over a 50…
Judd Apatow is well known for his raunchy romantic comedies like The 40-Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up. But his films have also tended to be a little self indulgent, and overlong, with running times in excess of two hours, and consequently they have tended to meander a little in the middle section. Trainwreck is…
Several years ago you would have never heard me go on and on about a violin player but K. Ishibashi (aka Kishi Bashi) changed all of that with his genre changing debut 151a (2012). String Quartet Live! features reimagined versions from not only 151a but last year’s Lighght, performed live by himself and an accompanying…
