Following the release of the first few Harry Potter novels the film industry quickly jumped on the bandwagon, conjuring up eight movies, a theme park and a merchandising extravaganza to match Star Wars. Each film was […]
BULL
Brutal. Just, so, brutal. Awaiting a crucial staffing decision by senior management, team members Isobel (Romy Bartz) and Tony (Philippe Klaus) round squarely on less confident and clearly nerve-wracked Thomas (George Kemp) to ensure survival […]
ANYTHING GOES
Boisterously fun, Cole Porter’s Anything Goes is that reliably good musical romp filled with so many hits, now singularly recognisable and enjoyable in their own right, that the dated premise does not detract from a […]
DARK VANILLA JUNGLE
Intense, sparse and confronting, Dark Vanilla Jungle is in every sense a discomforting night of theatre. A monologue stretched over 90 minutes, Philip Ridley’s play as performed by Claudia Barrie covers any number of distressing […]
THE ALIENS
Offbeat in every sense of the word, The Aliens enjoyably draws its audience off-centre with the play’s unconventional style, at times both discomforting and refreshing. Filled with intermittently jarring moments and deliberately languid pacing, it […]
YOUTH POWR
Youth POWR Promo Youth PoWR will gather hundreds of youth from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds to transform our society into one that embraces diversity. Opening Night Video The event will be held […]
MOTHERS AND SONS
There is seldom the opportunity to see a play about a highly topical issue that doesn’t preach or attempt to shove a point of view down your throat. Mothers and Sons succeeds in letting the drama […]
SF3 Festival: Smartphones creating the future cinema classics
“There are feature films being made on smartphones now, so for all the finalists, your dreams can be bigger.” A presenter accurately pitched the inaugural festival to a theatre full of finalists, families and keen […]
Director Neil Armfield on Holding the Man and why it’s important
Note: spoilers “There was a time, it seemed not so long ago, when your friends at the ages of 30 and 40 were dying, people were going to funerals week after week. It’s really important […]
VACATION
Remember those family vacations you used to take as a kid? Remember those movies about family vacations you used to watch as a kid? Did your childhood also involve long, music-filled car trips where you […]
THE TEMPEST
“Your compensation makes amends; for I have given you here a third of mine own life.” Many of Prospero’s quips rang true on the opening night of Bell Shakespeare’s The Tempest, with famed director John Bell […]
THE GIFT
Joel Edgerton has a lot of options open to him. Riding the wave of the Australian hit, the Animal Kingdom star can and has gone for a number of big-budget Hollywood roles, in Exodus: Gods and Kings, […]
ROBOT OVERLORDS
This had the potential to be an amazing movie. With the opening line already a slap in the face to conventional wisdom and logical plot development, on par with 2012‘s “the neutrinos have mutated” – this sci-fi […]
7 CHINESE BROTHERS
The lyrics of R.E.M’s lesser-known hit ‘7 Chinese Brothers,’ for which the film is named, do little to make sense of this elusive comedy, or at least make sense of the title. But that’s kind of […]
MATILDA THE MUSICAL
An instant classic, Matilda’s Sydney debut at the Lyric theatre promises a highly enjoyable production for parents, grandparents, revolting children and just about everyone else. Based on Roald Dahl’s much-loved novel and bearing little resemblance […]
‘Victor Frankenstein’ Trailer Debuts
What can we expect from the latest adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic? Playing to type as an unhinged professor, the first full-length trailer for James McAvoy’s turn as the obsessive Dr Frankenstein was released yesterday, […]
‘KILL ME THREE TIMES’ TOURS AUSTRALIA
“Let’s try a different way of reaching audiences where they are now.” Kill Me Three Times producer Tania Chambers addressed a post-screening Q&A of the Aussie dark comedy, filmed on location in Western Australia. The […]
IRRATIONAL MAN
Woody Allen continues his love-affair with Dostoyevsky in the 2015 entry from the multi-talented creator who reliably churns out one feature every calendar year. This time, Allen’s muse is Emma Stone, well-cast as the deft […]
The Man from U.N.C.L.E
The latest popular ’60s TV show to get a modern remake, director Guy Ritchie has emerged from a series of awful missteps with a glitzy, stylish, action-filled adaptation of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. American super-agent Napoleon […]
Tripping on Sebastian Silva
With only six feature films under his belt, the thirty-something filmmaker Sebastian Silva, is enjoying a retrospective at MIFF and discussed his 2013 feature ‘Crystal Fairy and the Magical Cactus’. “It’s a movie based on […]
In The Mouth of Madness
Outspoken journalist, Michael Ware, shakes the foundations with his documentary, ‘Only The Dead’. “You’re watching one man’s descent into dark madness, but that would be the most wafer-thin reading of the film.” Australian journalist and […]
Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
If you could star in your favourite movie, would you do it? Well these guys did. 11 year-olds Chris, Eric and Jayson saw cult classic Raiders of the Lost Ark on its initial release and […]
