22 Oct 2015
Robert Cousins’ dark, spacious set, already off-centre, with sharp angles jutting into the audience, its huge reflective backdrop making it impossible for…
20 Oct 2015
In The Heart Goes Last, Margaret Atwood has conceived of a most dire and fantastical world in which economic collapse in the United States has led to a sinister…
14 Oct 2015
As soon as you enter the Space Theatre you begin this wonderful experience. All conventional seating gone, the floor is carpeted in parched grass scattered with…
14 Oct 2015
Reece Mastin’s third studio album makes you want to spend the afternoon with the guy having a coffee (or beer) and a chat. At the ripe age of 20 this recording…
11 Oct 2015
Straight from the ‘60s, Bill Naughton’s classic cockney play kicked off two hit movies, a hit song on both sides of the Atlantic and a storm of controversy for…
11 Oct 2015
This follow-up to 2013’s horror epic Contracted , which attempted to show how a zombie-cum- 28 – Days – Later -type virus could be created (and then left us…
11 Oct 2015
British cartoonist and graphic novelist Posy Simmonds’ Tamara Drewe (filmed by Stephen Frears) was a Thomas-Hardy-influenced attack on pretentious, snobby…
11 Oct 2015
The five surviving members of Monty Python are all in their mid-70s now, and Gilliam (the animator, only American and most rarely-seen of the sextet) states…
11 Oct 2015
Indefatigable producer/director Roger Corman’s seventh of eight early ‘60s productions drawn from the works of Edgar Allan Poe, this is the best of the bunch…
11 Oct 2015
Character star William H. Macy’s debut as director (and co-writer, executive producer and co-star) is a tough and uncomfortably moving affair that hasn’t made…
11 Oct 2015
Edited by Jacqueline Furby and Stuart Joy (Footprint) 2015, 274pp, RRP $57.95
11 Oct 2015
One of the mightiest of all original cult/midnight movies, this stark, semi-factual B+W drama from 1969 was directed for a short while by a young Martin…