For the uninitiated, like I was, Warcraft is a franchise of video games, novels and other media created by Blizzard Entertainment in 1994. The series is made up of five core games, the first three of which are in the real-time strategy genre, where opposing players command virtual armies in battle against each other or…
Heathers – The Musical by Laurence O’Keefe and Kevin Murphy, based on the 1990 film, written by Daniel Waters, and starring 16 year old Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, was a complete surprise for me. I had never seen the cult film set in the grossness of 1980’s fashion with all the horrors of American…
Hitchcock’s North by Northwest set the benchmark as an intoxicating thriller on stage with innovative and creative staging. Now Tom Holloway has adapted James M. Cain’s 1943 novella Double Indemnity, which was inspired by a 1927 murder that Cain covered as a New York journalist. It originally appeared as an eight-part serial in Liberty magazine…
In 1979, fundamentalist rebels overthrew the Shah of Iran and, simultaneously, threw the everyday lives of many into total disarray. In the West, it was an event captured in incendiary news clips of fevered young revolutionaries, American hostages, mounting repression and political tensions that exist to this day. But the story that was rarely told,…
A superb performance from Sally Field makes this a movie that many will find enchanting. In Hello, My Name is Doris, Field (Norma Rae, Places in the Heart) plays a role that reinforces just how good an actor she is (after all, she did win two Oscars). Doris Miller (Field ) is a classic outsider,…
I minored in art history at university, so The Last Painting of Sara de Vos reeled me in easily. From the opening, where the fictional painting’s description is entrenched in the mind of readers, I was captivated by the fascinating story of this painting, and the impact it had on three key characters. While I’d love…
Yet another formulaic odd couple buddy action comedy, Central Intelligence teams action hero Dwayne Johnson (San Andreas) with motor mouthed comic Kevin Hart (Ride Along 2), the most annoying and unfunny comic working in mainstream movies at the moment). It is an odd couple pairing that will remind audiences of the Rush Hour series, in…
A total of 1,517 people, more than two-thirds of those who boarded the world’s largest moving object, perished after the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg at 11:40pm on 14 April 1912 and sank early the following morning. Hardly the material that immediately makes you think of musical theatre … and yet it is just the…
Breathtaking vocals, including soaring solos and perfectly pitched harmonies, outstanding musical accompaniment and a superbly crafted set are hallmarks of Songs for a New World, a musical about journeys through the ages. There is no spoken or linear narrative, rather back-to-back characters’ stories (all sung) about moments of decision in their lives – decisions draw…
– Love & Friendship – Only in cinemas from 21 July 2016 We have 10 double in-season passes thanks to Transmission Films. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE Set in the opulent drawing rooms of eighteenth-century English society, Love & Friendship focuses on the machinations of a beautiful widow, Lady Susan Vernon,…
