Leaves is a play by Irish writer, Lucy Caldwell, written in 2007, as part of a residency at the National Theatre Studio. A family is waiting for the return of their eldest daughter, Lori (Harriet Gordon-Anderson), from a recovery clinic after an attempted suicide. Her two younger siblings, Clover (Bobbie-Jean Henning) and Poppy (Poppy Lynch)…
Comedy, melodrama and hijinks abound in the Australian premiere of A Very Modern Marriage, a play previously only performed at the 2015 Hollywood Fringe Festival. There are frenzied and vitriolic arguments aplenty when a gay friend, Chris (Jayden Popik), moves in with a married couple – whose relationship is already on shaky ground – as they…
Mad. In a good way. That’s how I’d describe Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All by Jonas Jonasson, author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden. Here’s the blurb: It’s never too late to start again. And again. It’s always awkward…
The Wider Earth is an extraordinary piece of theatre. It is visually brilliant with a lighting plot from David Walters and some amazing animation from Justin Harrison that flits around a screen that stretches the entire width of the stage, Add to this beautifully emotive music from Lior and Tony Buchen, an evocative sound design…
With re-boots, re-writes and re-imaginings de rigeur these days, it’s not all that surprising that Robert Ludlum’s famous super-spy gets to have another go around in the eponymous Jason Bourne. This stylish thriller re-unites star Matt Damon with Bourne Supremacy and Bourne Ultimatum director Paul Greengrass. It hardly seems nine years since Ultimatum; but there…
A sensuous European film (primarily told in English) about yearning, jealousy and rock ‘n roll set under the Mediterranean sun, the primary appeal of A Bigger Splash will be to an art house crowd. The movie’s starting point was the 1969 picture La Piscine, which starred Alain Delon and Romy Schneider. The director of A…
From the surreal instrumentation to a voice that at times sounds like a young Dylan, Kevin Morby hits all the right notes on his third full length Singing Saw. You may question – how do I not know about this guy? Well you might already and just didn’t know it, as he was in Woods…
Written by Bryan Sipe (who also penned the recent adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ The Choice), Demolition is a rather downbeat and unpredictable drama dealing with death, grief, and the process of moving on. Davis Mitchell (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a hot shot financier whose wife is killed in a car crash. He goes into denial and…
Based upon a true story, The Clan is the incredible tale of an Argentine family – the Puccios – which, in the early 1980s, made its living from kidnapping and murder. They live in a typical family home in a traditional neighbourhood. To the outside world a devoted husband and father, Arquimedes (Guillermo Francella), the…
– Free State of Jones – Only in cinemas from 18 August 2016 We have 5 double in-season passes thanks to StudioCanal. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE From THE HUNGER GAMES writer and director Gary Ross, and starring Academy Award® winner Matthew McConaughey, comes an epic wartime action romance about one…
