Band of Horses have every reason in the world to be one of the biggest rock acts currently on the scene. They have great songwriting, a superb voice in Ben Bridwell and a discography that can find memorable moments on each record. This is especially true when you go back to their first two Sub…
Created by Edgar Rice Burroughs over a century ago, the fictional hero Tarzan is one of the most popular fictional heroes in literature. As a child he was raised in the jungles of Africa by apes. He is intelligent, loyal, strong and courageous and fights against evil and colonial powers in deepest darkest Africa. There…
Inspired by events in his life, Miles Ahead is an impressionistic, no-holds barred portrait of one of 20th century music’s creative geniuses, Miles Davis. Working from a script he co-wrote with Steven Baigelman, Don Cheadle, who also stars as Davis, makes his directorial debut. In the midst of a dazzling and prolific career at the…
Term Life is the kind of movie that makes me think deeply the next day, just because I can’t remember the title anymore. Let alone I remember anything significant content wise. At first I didn’t even feel like watching this comical crime film, due to the presence of Vince Vaughn. He isn’t exactly my favorite…
– Embrace – Only in cinemas from 4 August 2016 We have 5 double in-season passes thanks to Transmission Films. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE One woman’s journey to inspire everyBODY: EMBRACE follows Body Image Activist Taryn Brumfitt crusade as she explores the global issue of body loathing, inspiring us to…
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,…
