Talk about playing mind games with words. A decade after MTC staged this Tony Award winning musical comedy, the Vic Theatre Company has brought it back to tickle our funny bones again. It is, indeed, hilarious, more than a touch silly and really fun, but not without pathos … for you see the contestants in…
This March a brand new event will be bringing folk music to the inner western suburbs of Sydney and it looks pretty exciting. The brand new Summer Hill Folk Festival is set to take place at the Summer Hill Church on Saturday 5th March. The line-up for the festival is impressive, bringing together some of…
– British Film Festival – Screening from 27 October 2015 We have 10 double session passes thanks to the festival. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Presented by Palace, the BBC First British Film Festival returns for its third year with a standout selection of Festival favourites and box office hits from the British Isles. The…
The 2015 Jewish Film Festival has kicked off. The festival cities and dates are: Sydney: 28th October to 18th November Melbourne: 4th November to 29th November Brisbane: 21st, 22nd and 29th November Perth: 31st October, 1st and 8th November Auckland: 14th, 15th and 22nd November Here are reviews of Felix and Meira and Censored Voices,…
– Lavazza Italian Film Festival – Only at Palace Cinemas in October 2015 We have 10 double session passes thanks to Palace Cinemas. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* The Lavazza Italian Film Festival 2015 is Palace Cinemas’ biggest cultural film festival and it returns for its 16th season this September and October with some…
Last week we brought you a potted preview of this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival. Now with the festival well and truly underway, our intrepid and bleary-eyed reviewer Greg King sorts through some of the highlights and not-so-high-lights of this year’s event. Force of Destiny Paul Cox is a perennial favourite of the Melbourne International…
Sweden is more than idyllic red cottages and affordable housing in flat packages. Today it is also a country with a big youth unemployment problem. It is so massive, in fact, that hundreds of thousands of young Swedes see no option other than to move across the border to Norway. They hope to find work…
