“I love comedies, I love to be able to do really funny films, making the audiences laugh is something very interesting and very difficult, but at the same time I wanted to have a serious […]
SULLY
On January 15, 2009, a US Airways plane was on a regular flight from New York’s LaGuardia to Charlotte, North Carolina, when the unprecedented happened. A flock of birds flew directly into the flight path, […]
DON’T BREATHE
Like any good fright, Don’t Breathe came from out of nowhere. The surprise smash, made for under $10 million, knocked Suicide Squad from the top spot at this weekend’s box office, proving that however much you hype […]
WHERE DO LITTLE BIRDS GO?
A one-woman show, save a seldom-heard pianist, Where Do Little Birds Go? unfurls a chapter in underground London’s sordid history. Based on a true story: Lucy (Bishaniya Vincent) recounts her youth and friendships, moseying around […]
BATTLERS AND DREAMERS
Denim. Hair gel. A nice Australian neighbourhood. Power chords. The quintessential ingredients to any 80s farce, Battlers and Dreamers is an original musical take-off of all those classic Aussie family dramas you knew and loved, […]
GENE WILDER – YOUR FRIEND AT THE MOVIES
Do you have a friend you can just look at, understand each other and laugh? Something happened on the fly, there’s no need for a raised eyebrow or pointed stare and you both know exactly […]
WHARF REVUE
There’s never been a better time to stage a political satire. Coinciding with the first sitting week of the new Parliament, the Wharf Revue is back with no shortage of material direct from the halls […]
SF3 CO-FOUNDER ANGELA BLAKE & 2016 WINNERS ON PROMOTING GRASSROOTS AUSSIE FILMMAKING
“After about a minute your brain kicks and you think, oh wow, and when you start to realise what’s happening it’s a beautiful thing and you’re so engaged.” With the second annual Sydney SmartFone Flick […]
SYDNEY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR STEFAN POPESCU TALKS SUFF 2016
“It’s a little bit arty, a little bit weirdo, a little bit cult, a little bit horror.” Sydney Underground Film Festival (SUFF) Director Stefan Popescu and the team are gearing up for their 2016 outing […]
ALADDIN THE MUSICAL
The latest Disney smash to get the stage-musical treatment, relive the childhood classic about a thief and fugitive who lies to a girl and her father so he can marry her under a presumed identity, […]
SMARTFONE FLICK FEST (SF3) 2016 WRAPS IN SYDNEY
“For $12 a month you can buy an iPhone and put this on the screen.” The second annual SmartFone Flick Fest screened it’s top ten finalists last night at the Chauvel Cinema in Sydney’s Paddington, […]
BEN-HUR
Expectations are a nasty business. The best-selling nineteenth-century novel, based on, of all things, the best-selling book of all time, the Bible, was turned into a stage-play that ran for over two decades, before being […]
JEEVES AND WOOSTER IN PERFECT NONSENSE
Long before Jeeves was the go-to moniker for British-as-anything valets and the like, there was Jeeves (Joseph Chance) the British-as-anything valet and Wooster (Matthew Carter), the gadabout rogue, wreaking havoc on the early 20th century […]
PALACE CINEMAS ANNOUNCE 14-SCREEN COMPLEX FOR SYDNEY’S CENTRAL PARK
Palace Cinemas today confirmed that the cinema chain will be opening a 14-screen complex, Palace Central, in Sydney’s Central Park Mall in late 2017. Central Park Mall, having opened its doors in recent years, is […]
WAR DOGS
Did you like Scarface? Or Goodfellas? Or The Wolf of Wall Street? Good, so did the guys who made War Dogs, and they really want you to like it too. The term ‘based on a […]
LOOK BACK IN ANGER
Every play, to some extent, tries to immerse the audience in the action, however intimate or shocking. In Red Line Productions’ staging of John Osborne’s classic Look Back in Anger you are, thrillingly, as in […]
SUICIDE SQUAD
Animals’ classic hit opens with the line ‘There is a house in New Orleans, they call the rising sun.’ Suicide Squad too opens with the line, and the song, zooming in on of all things […]
EMO THE MUSICAL
Emo The Musical, as its title might suggest, likes to make fun of things. Emos. Public schools. Awkward teenagers. Religious groups. Really, really dark music. They all get a skewing in this quirky, original Australian […]
FEAR ITSELF
A film that goes bump in the night, Fear Itself is an excellent, extensive, feature visual essay on the cogs and spurs that go into making any good horror flick. Presented with deliberately unnerving narration, […]
CHRISTINE
Reviewing a film like Christine presents an endearing conundrum for any critic, here going to the very core of the film. Christine is based on an infamous live-TV event in the 1970’s that occurred on […]
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