Space Theatre, Fri Jun 6 What a stellar start to the Cabaret Festival! Caroline Nin is an accomplished and commanding performer. It is impossible to take your eyes off her when she is on stage. She is captivating,...
Space Theatre, Fri Jun 6 There’s a lot more to Sven Ratzke’s cabaret than the music of his favourite divas. Humour, storytelling, plenty of audience engagement, and reminiscing about times...
Sometimes a story can change your whole world. Words on a page can be so powerful that it seems like your eyes have a new colour or shape – the tale becomes a prism through which you see the world. Stories...
Kim Lock (MidnightSun Publishing) 333pp, RRP $24.95 Amy Silva is not your ordinary army ‘wife’. She’s an organic-produce adoring, hemp-wearing nuevo-hippy. Her boyfriend, Dylan Brookes, thrives...
Writer/director Laurie Collyer’s low-budget drama features a cool cast and moving playing, and yet the lingering mood of quiet desperation makes it slightly hard to take – especially if your life...
Writer/director Sally Potter’s follow-up to the flawed Yes and the underappreciated Rage is a fairly straight character piece with a fine cast and rather less of her irritatingly pretentious quirks....
It is a few years now since this gorgeous trio’s last full length offering; this could be due to the fact that they have been busy scouring romantic and far-flung corners of the globe in Europe and the UK. All three...
Producer/director Spike Lee’s most ostensibly commercial movie since his Inside Man (and his first remake) is an Americanised version of Korean filmmaker Chan-wook Park’s original (one of his infamous...
This wearyingly ‘extreme’ feature début from stuntman-turned-co-writer/director/producer Kimani Ray Smith is intended as a hybrid of grindhouse horror, chopsocky actioner and sickly black comedy,...
Anita Heiss (Simon & Schuster Australia) 2014, 354pp, RRP $29.95 Tiddas, by Anita Heiss, is the story of five friends, or tiddas, who are dealing with the challenges of a broken marriage, unwanted...
