The third British Film Festival screens at Palace Cinemas around Australia from October 28, and according to festival director Kim Petralis, the growth of the festival in three short years has been quite staggering. When the festival started off in 2013 they had a humble 123 sessions nationally. This year, Petralis says that they are…
Minusonesister is the Sydney Theatre Company’s (STC) Patrick White Playwright’s Award of 2013, by Anna Barnes. The action of the play is set in a contemporary, salubrious household of an Australian city, with a set of siblings – three sisters and brother – struggling, inside a wrapped crime scene room, to make sense of the…
This is the second documentary in as many weeks to hit our screens exploring an indigenous community and the way in which their traditions and culture have been affected by the white man’s ways. We recently had David Gulpilil take us to his home town of Ramingining in the Northern Territory for the revealing and…
City and Colour’s latest release, If I Should Go Before You, is a full band effort and it shows. Formerly, Dallas Green (of Alexisonfire) was the primary creative force for City and Colour. I fell in love with 2013’s The Hurry and The Harm, which was a beautiful folk album marked by thoughtful lyrics, sweet…
The seed of the book that became The Patterson Girls, Rachael Johns’ first foray into contemporary fiction, came from a weed. As Johns tells it, the paddocks around the town where she then lived were covered in what appeared to be a beautiful purple flower. She soon discovered that the flower was an invasive weed…
This is the story of the back up musicians who crafted some of the greatest hits of the 60s and early 70s. They were known by the film’s title, The Wrecking Crew. It is a documentary tenderly produced and directed by Denny Tedesco, son of legendary late Wrecking Crew guitarist Tommy Tedesco. For six years…
An enticing, exotic new theatrical concept has hit Melbourne with force … and the only shame is that you have very little time to see it before it will disappear. Called Bordello, it is a journey through a house of ill repute as we, the audience, are voyeurs to the fragile foundations that are the…
Unease is what greets you in this psychological crime drama set in Melbourne in the mid ‘70s. The film tracks the relationship between Sparra (Alex Russell) and Paula (Jessica De Gouw) and the impact on their lives of the charismatic and dangerous Pommie (Sullivan Stapleton). Sparra is a very private man in his twenties who…
OK, first things first. If you haven’t seen the first season of How to Get Away with Murder but want to, read no further. Here be spoilers. So, at the end of season 1 we discovered that 1) Frank (Charlie Weber) killed Lila at the insistence of Sam, now-dead husband of Annalise (Viola Davis); 2)…
Approximately twelve men have walked on the surface of the moon, but only one man has walked a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York. In 1974 Frenchman Phillippe Petit spent some 45 minutes 100 floors above the street, without a safety harness, enthralling New Yorkers who had gathered…
