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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 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
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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?. The
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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
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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.
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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
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Ocean's Eleven - Film Review Friday
Ocean’s Eleven (2001) dir. Steven Soderbergh “The house always wins. Play long enough, you never change the stakes, the house takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes along, you bet big, and then you take the house.” For more than seventy years all Las Vegas has done is
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CATS Review: Someone Please Erase My Memory
CATS is a musical that needs no introduction. Considered the first megamusical, it paved the way for shows from Les Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera to Hamilton and Wicked, on top of being a massive commercial success in its own right. It’s been produced all over the
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Film Review Fridays - The Basketball Diaries
I know it’s unorthodox to review two films with the same star in such a short space of time, but after my review of Total Eclipse last week, I simply couldn’t help it. I’ve been kept awake at night by the thought that I deceived you, dear