Kristen Stewart isn’t exactly on my list of favorite actresses. As I wrote in my review of Snow White and the Huntsman: “She shows almost no emotion and I’m convinced she dips her face in starch before walking onto the set”. But regarding Equals, she was most suited. A postwar society (indeed, again after a…
Intersperse opera with musical theatre and add in melodrama together with the story of a developmentally impaired young woman and you have the makings of a most unusual Tony Award winner. The Light in the Piazza is based upon a 1959 novella by Mississippi writer Elizabeth Spencer, first published in The New Yorker magazine. Set…
In late 1997 Anu Singh, a beautiful law-student in Canberra killed her boyfriend Joe Cinque after months of telling friends and colleagues she planned to kill herself and take him with her. Despite the warnings, no one stopped her. Joe Cinque’s Consolation is the screen adaptation of Helen Garner’s celebrated account of those events. It…
Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and Palace Cinemas are teaming up to present a touring film season dedicated to the oeuvre of controversial Franco-Polish director Roman Polanski. ROMAN: 10 X Polanski will show ten key films drawn from the director’s Polish New Wave debut — Knife in the Water — to his 2010…
– I, Daniel Blake – Only in cinemas from 17 November 2016 We have 5 double in-season passes thanks to Transmission Films. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE Daniel Blake has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle, UK. Now, for the first time ever, he needs help from…
The Baulkham Hills African Ladies Troupe is a moving and life-affirming documentary about courage, the triumph of the human spirit to overcome trauma, and the power of theatre and art to transform lives. Four refugees talk about their horrific experiences in war torn countries in Africa – tales of rape, kidnap and violence. We get…
Not to be confused with The Handmaid’s Tale — Margaret Atwood’s Booker Prize nominated dystopian novel with a strong feminist slant, which was filmed in 1990 with Natasha Richardson and Faye Dunaway — The Handmaiden is a loose adaptation of Sarah Waters’ Booker Prize nominated novel Fingersmith, which was set in Victorian England, and offers…
Recorded by the Patea Maori Choir in 1984, Poi E was an infectious song that became a cultural phenomenon and a cultural touchstone for the Maori people. It was the first song in the traditional Maori language to top the charts in New Zealand. It topped the charts for four consecutive weeks and even outsold…
If you’re looking for thrills and action and suspense, I dare say the first profession you seek might not be accountancy. But clearly that isn’t the case for the character behind The Accountant, Christian Wolff (a role filled by Ben Affleck – Argo, Batman v Superman). He is not only a brilliant number cruncher, but…
– Hacksaw Ridge – Only in cinemas from 3 November 2016 We have 10 double in-season passes thanks to Icon Film Distribution. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE HACKSAW RIDGE (shot in various locations across New South Wales) tells the extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield) who, in Okinawa during…
