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Rock Of Ages - Film Review Friday
Even beyond its chart-topping soundtrack and world-class costuming, Rock of Ages is a truly entertaining and whole-hearted tribute that manages to avoid ever slipping into mockery.
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"The Essence of Her" – Interview for the Julia Gillard play
‘The power of her rhetoric, the improvisation of the words, the strength of her tone and manner, the calm at the centre of the storm – all of it was an incredible piece of theatre quite apart from the shift in attitudes it ushered in.’ Joanna Murray-Smith in On Cue Julia
“It sounds like a lot because it is a lot:” Interview with the creators of COOKED
COOKED is a brand new play about mental health, crumbling relationships, and what it means to be a young woman in modern society. Its non-linear narrative follows main character Logan as she navigates her relationships with her Mum and her best friend Jean. COOKED invites us to see ourselves in
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The Death Of Stalin - Film Review Friday
The Death of Stalin (2017) dir. Armando Iannucci “I'm off to represent the entire Red Army at the buffet. You girls enjoy yourselves.” In early 2018, a mere two days before its scheduled release in Russia, Armando Iannucci’s bleak, dark comedy, The Death of Stalin, had its
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Fargo - Film Review Fridays
“Heck, Norm, you know, we're doing pretty good…two more months” What does it say about humans that a large percentage of screen audiences binge-watch and enjoy true crime documentaries? What does it say about us that we've unintentionally glorified and created a hierarchy of serial
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High & Low - John Galliano - Film Review Fridays
The film examines Galliano’s career from his earliest days sewing dresses for his sisters to his peak as Creative Director for Dior in the late 90s/early 00s, and Maison Margiela from 2014-2024.
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Films That Make Us Happy Triple Feature - Film Review Friday
'O Brother Where Art Thou?' - Review by Daniel Fagan “Pete, it's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.” It doesn’t take long to realise there’s nothing quite like the Coen Brother’s O Brother Where Art Thou?
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The Life Of Chuck - Film Review Friday
“It’s the waiting that’s the hardest part” As I walked out of the theatre, I concluded that those 2 hours spent watching ‘The Life Of Chuck’ were well spent. I felt high but sober, full but not stuffed. I felt the Earth slow for a few minutes. I
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Gay Pirates, Evil Twinks, and Everything You Missed at the Festival of New Works
Do you know what it took to get your favourite musical onto the mainstage? From a twinkle in its creator’s eye, chances are it went through years or even decades of writing, re-writing, editing, workshops, showings, developments, readings, and more, all before you even heard of it. But what
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Getting Ugly: Through the Dirt with Worm Girlz
The sense of community – the creation of which Worm Girlz identify as a core principle of their mission – was strong within the crowd.
Sensory Memory: Josh Hinton’s A Place in the Sultan’s Kitchen to return to IPAC
Josh Hinton is back for a second time at the IPAC with his revered show A Place in the Sultan’s Kitchen that swept audiences last year. Teasingly delicious smells creep through every nook and cranny of the room as Hinton recounts some very intense and very real stories from
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Friendship - Film Review Friday
How many times have you committed social suicide? How many times have you told a joke so much darker and unthinkable that your friends decide you’re the weird one? How many times have you accidentally injured a friend while joking around? How many times have you made a complete