For Film Fight Club Round #2 we talk to SF3 SmartFone Flick Fest co-Director Angela Blake, all things Jonathan Demme, Star Wars spin-offs and Colossal – in cinemas now. Tune in to 2SER 107.3 on […]
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THE BODYGUARD
Jolting you into your seat, The Bodyguard, in a manner unlike almost any other musical, starts off with a bang. Attention-ready and all too focused on the stage, the actual show kicks off with a […]
Film Fight Club Episode 1: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2, a new age of Independent cinema and Bond, James Bond
Film Fight Club kicked off on 2SER 107.3 last night, coming to you Wednesdays at 7:30 with Chris Evans, Virat Nehru & Glen Falkenstein – enjoy the podcast, let us know what you think and […]
BIG FISH
With film-to-musical adaptations the flavour of the day, the Hayes Theatre Co has provided another example of how it can be done. You might not have seen Big Fish, or if you did remember it […]
The Fate of the Furious
Cars. Fast cars. Faster cars. Exploding cars. Fast cars exploding. A submarine. What more could you want? If this sounds like your cup of tea, strap in for what is now unquestionably the biggest action […]
JURASSIC PARK MEETS ET: DIRECTOR MATT DRUMMOND TALKS ‘MY PET DINOSAUR’
“It’s been likened to some of those films from the ’80s in terms of its look and appearance. That’s something that I set out to do in the sense of trying to capture some of […]
BERLIN SYNDROME
Every traveller’s worst nightmare – Aussie backpacker Clare (Teresa Palmer), following a brief fling with Berlin local Andi (Max Riemelt) and visit to his home discovers that he has no intention of letting her leave. […]
TALK
Hit and very miss, the Sydney Theatre Company’s attempted jab at Australia’s media landscape skewers its inevitably niche audience as much as it panders to them. Director/Writer Jonathan Biggins, ensuring the words Ray, Hadley, Andrew […]
TWO
Sometimes, it just takes two. There are fourteen characters in the Ensemble Theatre’s latest production Two, with Brian Meegan and Kate Raison adopting seven personas apiece. Each flitting about a local pub on a busy […]
TWICE SHY CLOSES SYDNEY LEG OF IRISH FILM FESTIVAL, LOOKS NATIONAL
The Festival closed in Sydney with the announcement of the Breakthrough Award and now heads to Melbourne and Perth. “It’s important for Australians to know and to see stories coming out of Ireland but it’s […]
YOUNG AT HEART FILM FESTIVAL TO TOUR NATIONALLY
“What we tried to do is find films that are ideally suited to the seniors audience, films that are entertaining, where you can learn something, where you can reminisce and where you can embrace yourself […]
“THIS FILM HAS CHANGED LIVES ALREADY” – SANCTUARY SCREENS AT IRISH FILM FESTIVAL
“To actually have a film that manages to change the law, change people’s lives, there’s nothing better than that.” Director Len Collin flew out from Ireland to attend a special screening of his film Sanctuary, […]
“A WINDOW ON CONTEMPORARY IRELAND” – IRISH FILM FESTIVAL KICKS OFF IN SYDNEY
“It’s great to see confident young people coming out with talent and making films that are as good as any that are coming from anywhere around the world.” Irish Film Festival Director Dr Enda Murray […]
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
This review, or at least the first part of it, is best accompanied by the original Beauty and the Beast’s classic hit ‘Be Our Guest,’ though The Simpson’s similarly classic ‘See My Vest’ will do […]
IRISH FILM FESTIVAL SET FOR ITS BIGGEST YEAR YET
“People are looking for a window on contemporary Ireland and that’s our goal. All of these films, 8 features, they’ve all been made in the last 12 months, so that’s certainly what they’re going to […]
LIFE
It’s very rare that a movie benefits from being both so incredibly smart and so incredibly stupid. But that’s Life. Set aboard the International Space Station where an ill-defined extra-terrestrial proceeds to terrify Ryan Reynolds, […]
SHORT+SWEET FILM FESTIVAL GALA FINAL
The inaugural Short + Sweet Film Festival Gala screened at Dendy Cinemas Newtown on Sunday night, will all but two of the Festival’s twelve finalists hailing from independent Australian filmmakers. “The 12 short films we […]
THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE
This is the best Batman movie in five years – during which time there’s been almost as many flicks featuring the caped crusader as there have been Best Picture winners. The LEGO Batman Movie […]
A CURE FOR WELLNESS
There’s a very particular type of person who will be willing to sit through let alone relish Gore Verbinski’s two-and-a-half hour ode to gothic fiction’s greatest hits. Let’s see if that’s you: You saw the […]
RICHARD 3
It’s rare that a play receives such hype and attention before its debut, and rarer still when it so deserves it. Bell Shakespeare’s Richard 3, helmed by Artistic Director Peter Evans following the recent retirement […]
GET OUT
It would be remiss to describe Get Out as simply a horror-comedy, though an even greater disservice to the film to betray the plot in any significant detail. The directorial debut from Jordan Peele, Get Out’s […]
KONG: SKULL ISLAND
Someone gave Samuel L. Jackson and John C. Reilly a very different script. Anyone going to see Kong: Skull Island would likely have one of two expectations. One, they’re in for a big, explosiony, cgi-filled […]
