Fawlty Towers is cult comedy. It began life as a two season BBC TV production back in the 1970s. There were just 12 shows, but they have lived on, gaining new generations of fans. But would the morphing of old TV show scripts into a two-act live stage comedy work? Absolutely. John Cleese took three…
– Fences – Only in cinemas from 9 February 2017 We have 10 double in-season passes thanks to Paramount Pictures Australia. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE FENCES is the story of Troy Maxson, a mid-century Pittsburgh sanitation worker who once dreamed of a baseball career, but was too old when the…
Babes in the Woods: Australian Purity Defil’d is a new musical comedy work in the knock-about vein of the traditional Christmas panto, but, in an Aussie style. A very Aussie style. Drought, ghosts/convicts, mine shafts, bushfires, secret rivers and occasional awful foul language. There are some illuminated signs to cue us, the audience, to APPLAUD;…
– A Few Less Men – Only in cinemas from 9 February 2017 We have 5 double in-season passes thanks to StudioCanal. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE In A FEW LESS MEN, the hilarious sequel to the worldwide hit A FEW BEST MEN, a destination wedding in Australia’s Blue Mountains goes…
Chilean director Pablo Larraín (No) takes on the enigmatic figure of Jacqueline Kennedy (neé Bouvier; later Onassis) and the mythos of the “Camelot” years in Jackie. This visually stunning and finely textured film is a kind of elegy to a lost time and lost hope, while simultaneously providing an intimate portrait of the former First…
American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Kishi Bashi will return to Australian shores two and a half years on from his last visit, to play two headline shows; along with an appearance at the Perth International Arts Festival, alongside local act Teeth & Tongue. An engaging live artist, Kishi is known for his joyous and energetic on-stage…
Here at The Blurb we usually concentrate on music when it comes to aural entertainment. It would however be remiss of us to ignore the fastest growing and possibly most exciting form of audio available – podcasts. For the uninitiated (and yes, I realise there probably aren’t many of you), podcasting is like radio without…
A charming victory against-the-odds story set in France, Ballerina concerns a couple of orphan kids. Félicie (voiced by Elle Fanning) is a wannabe dancer. That is her great passion in life. Victor (Dane DeHaan) wants to become a great inventor. The problem is he is basically a klutz. The pair has also long wanted to…
One of several recent movies that play on nostalgia, Allied is a kind of Casablanca-lite for the undemanding viewer. Of course, director Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump) is an old hand at this type of film, but no amount of direction could have saved this film from its clunky – and at times incomprehensible – script….
Let’s face it, 2016 was a tough year. Despair, hopelessness and rancour were all around us, and those feelings simply spiralled downward as the year wore on. Thankfully, we had the movies to allow us a couple of hours escape from the madness and to (hopefully) introduce a little grace note into our lives. All…
