At some point do you ever feel like you are too old for a genre of music? I have had those thoughts over the years about emo but always remind myself how I will still turn up the stereo for Sunny Day Real Estate, American Football and The Promise Ring. Flash forward to present day…
– Madame Bovary – Only in cinemas from 9 July 2015 We have 5 double in-season passes thanks to Transmission Films. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE Adapted from Flaubert’s classic novel, Madame Bovary tells the tragic story of Emma, a young beauty who impulsively marries a small-town doctor to leave…
I read and reviewed Kimberly McCreight’s first novel Reconstructing Amelia a couple of years ago and found it a fascinating tale of the things you don’t know about others. Her latest novel, Where They Found Her, runs on a similar theme. Here’s the blurb: At the end of a long winter in bucolic Ridgedale, New…
Battle of Waterloo, by Kylie Coolwell, is a new Australian play. This is the Indigenous play that I have been waiting for. Ms Coolwell has written a work from the heart of an urban Indigenous community, in the contemporary world of the housing commission buildings of Waterloo, not far from Redfern, set in the thrilling…
Not to be confused with the 1987 comedy of the same name that starred a young John Cusack, this unoriginal and lacklustre action comedy is largely a female centric variation on the odd couple on the run, buddy cop, road movie formula that has driven films like the superior Midnight Run and 48 Hours and…
The evil genius Gru (voiced by Steve Carrel) and his loyal and haphazard minions became a global success with the emergence of Despicable Me in 2010 and its sequel three years later. A large part of the films’ pleasure was provided by the now familiar little yellow poppets with goggle eyes and denim overalls, who…
It was a year ago that I saw the 40th Anniversary of The Rocky Horror Show at the Comedy Theatre and now it is back for another run with Craig McLachlan again strutting and pouting and dominating the stage as few can. He reprises his role of Dr Frank N Furter, which he not only…
Do you want to see a damning indictment of and expose on Scientology, the work of L. Ron Hubbard and the church’s Chairman of the Board, David Miscavige? Then here you have it. Following Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, his investigation into sex abuse in the Catholic church, Academy Award-winning director…
I was blindfolded, led into a room and told to sit, before the door was locked behind me. But no, I wasn’t being kidnapped. It became evident that a bed was in the room … and others were in there with me. But no, I wasn’t about to have a Christian Grey moment. Rather, I…
This French Chinese co-production is a beautiful and moving film, with a lot of heart and charm, and it has broad appeal. When her workaholic parents have to go on trips, young Ren Xing (Xin Yi Yang) is reluctantly left in the care of her estranged grandfather Zhu Zhigen (veteran Chinese actor Li Baotian, from…
