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Review: UOW Theatre's Chekhov's Gun
UOW Theatre undeniably have a remarkable play on their hands with Chekhov’s Gun. Thought-provoking, well-executed and bold...
The Last Showgirl - Film Review Friday
I think I should start this review with a confession: I have not, in fact, seen the first fifteen minutes of The Last Showgirl. I wish I had, but the truth is that when it first started at the cinema that night, I wasn’t there yet. Hadn’t even
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There's No Business Like Show Business - Film Review Friday
I know it’s a big claim to make of any film, let alone one made over 70 years ago whose reception can only be described at best as mixed, but I’m throwing down the gauntlet and making it – yes, there is such a thing as a perfect film.
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Merrigong presents Trent Dalton’s ‘Love Stories’ at IPAC
Love, apparently, is three good things, so these are mine: my grandma, telling me she was the first person to see me when I was born; my best friend, sending me flowers from halfway across the world on my birthday because she just wanted me to know she loved me;
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Brüno - Film Review Fridays
My first draft of this review went something like this: ‘Brüno is crude, bigoted, and completely insensitive, and it would be a terrible idea for you to watch it’. I did make the concession that it was funny - the funniest film I saw last year, probably - but reckoned
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Drawing Flies - Film Review Friday
As I was working through the entirety of Kevin Smith’s View Askew series last month, I stumbled across a film I hadn’t noticed the other three or so times I did that in the last year. It was black-and-white, grainy, obviously very low budget and, in fact, one
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Ratatouille - Film Review Fridays
I have never been one for animated films. I know for some people, they’re the only kind of films; studios like Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks continue to be popular among children and adults alike. Maybe for some of these people, they represent nostalgia, the innocence of childhood; for others
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Boy Erased - Film Review Friday
Film Review - Boy Erased Here's a fun little anecdote to get this started: in its original book form, Boy Erased is the only text I have ever read two times in a row. As soon as I finished it for the first time I went right back
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The Sum Of Us - Film Review Fridays
Not to speak too crudely, but I think it's telling that the first words spoken on screen in 1994's The Sum Of Us are “stick your frigging shoulder in his arse!” The film is, for want of a shall we say gentler phrase, a right kick
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My Own Private Idaho - Film Review Fridays
This Road Will Never End: An Elegy to Gus Van Sant's 'My Own Private Idaho' As I write this, it’s 31 years to the day that River Phoenix died. October 31st, 1993. That makes it 31 years to the day that someone truly important to
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Fire and Rain: an evening with Xavier Do
It’s about 7:30 on a cold, rainy Tuesday, and I’m one of only a few patrons at the UniBar’s open mic night. However, I’m also one of the lucky ones, as those of us who did brave the storm to come out tonight are witnessing
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UOW Theatre and Performance’s 'Maryland': The Weight of Fear
TW: SA The room is dimly lit. A woman stands on stage. Her name is Mary. Mary is shaking. A police officer stands in front of Mary. He knows her story. Mary’s story is this: Mary has been hurt. Mary has been assaulted. Mary has been attacked and she