Kevin Morby broke out last year with his fantastic third LP, Singing Saw. The record was easily his best to date and rightfully earned the #3 spot on TFN Top 50 of 2016 list. His fourth album, City Music, builds on that confidence and now becomes his biggest musical outing to date. Singing Saw was…
Sarah Ruhl is an American writer and Sydney has seen In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play (2009) and her adaption of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (2003), both for the Sydney Theatre Company (STC). The Clean House introduces us to a household belonging to a married couple Lane (Mary-Anne Halpin) and Charles (James Bean), both successful doctors….
A penniless wheeler and dealer gets in with the big boys and finds himself caught up way over his head. That, in a nutshell, is what the cleverly conceived and executed mind-bender Norman is all about. Norman Oppenheimer (Richard Gere) lives a lonely life in the margins of New York City power and money. He is a would-be…
Woody Harrelson stars in the title role as Wilson, a lonely, eccentric misanthrope who reunites with his long estranged wife Pippi (Laura Dern). He gets a shot at happiness when he learns he has a teenage daughter, Claire (Isabella Amara), he’s never met. The script has been written by Daniel Clowes, based upon his graphic novel…
Okay, I admit I’ve been a bit slack. I really should have written something on the quirky Search Party before now. However, it’s thankfully still airing and available, so it’s not too late to dive in. Part of my hesitation over this show involves just how to describe it. It’s funny; but it’s not a…
Doubt. A Parable, the play by John Patrick Shanley, won the Pulitzer prize and the Tony Award in 2005. All four of the actors were nominated for the Tony, too. The actors, Cherry Jones and Brian F. O’Bryne won. It was made into a film, directed by Mr Shanley, with Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman,…
In May, Palace Cinemas will once again bring the best of American independent film to Australian screens with American Essentials. Twenty films will make their Australian premiere—many hot on the heels of their world premieres at A-list festivals around the world—as the three-week festival tours five cities, celebrating the latest indie treasures in narrative feature…
If Aimee Mann had another pop/rock band album in her after the break-up of her 80’s breakout as vocalist and bassist with the band ‘Til Tuesday, she got that out of her system with Ted Leo on the duo’s one release in 2014 (The Both by The Both), producing one of the best albums of…
Fifteen years ago, Robert Randolph and his Family Band burst into rock music consciousness with Live at the Wetlands — a concert album of the band’s final performance at the celebrated NYC club and jam band Mecca that was going out of business – already a serious artistic force to be reckoned with, led by…
Two big movies in a week must be something of a record, but that’s what’s happened with Amy Adams this week. Coinciding with the release of Nocturnal Animals is Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival, a very different film to showcase Adams’ talents. I have to say the premise sounded a bit hokey to me – alien craft…
