30 Mar 2016
HOW TO WATCH A MOVIE: A How-To Guide From UK Author David Thompson – Book Review
Thomson’s latest in a seemingly annual series of film-related tomes sounds like it might be a how-to guide for the bases of cinema studies, and yet this…
The Clothesline – Page 138
30 Mar 2016
THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN: A Film By Monty Python’s Terry Gilliam – DVD Review
Co-writer/director (and former Monty Python member) Terry Gilliam had just emerged from the whole David and Goliath battle for his Brazil (1985) when he began…
30 Mar 2016
THE MOVIE DOCTORS: Amusing Lists From The Minds Of Simon Mayo + Mark Kermode – Book Review
Mayo and Kermode (of the UK’s Kermode And Mayo’s Film Review radio show and podcast) here adopt the notion that they’re ‘Movie Doctors’, and therefore diagnose…
24 Mar 2016
HOW TO SOUND CULTURED: MASTER THE 250 NAMES THAT INTELLECTUALS LOVE TO DROP INTO CONVERSATION – Book Review
Thomas W. Hodgkinson and Hubert van der Bergh (Icon) 2015, 382pp, RRP $24.99
23 Mar 2016
Are WOMADelaide and the Adelaide Fringe Losing Their Soul? Writer Michael Coghlan Ponders This Question.
A couple of weeks ago English comedian Alexis Dubus begrudgingly conceded that he was done with the Adelaide Fringe. He had watched it change into something…
23 Mar 2016
BRAVE ENOUGH: A MINI INSTRUCTION MANUAL FOR THE SOUL by Cheryl Strayed – Book Review
Strayed, who wrote the memoir Wild: A Journey From Lost To Found (which was, of course, filmed as just Wild with Reese Witherspoon), here offers a book even…
23 Mar 2016
Buzzcocks: Another Music In A Different Venue – Live Music Review
“Good evening. How are you? Alright?” Ladies and gentlemen, it’s Buzzcocks time. Steve Diggle looks like he’s up for it, while the modern-day Pete Shelley looks…
22 Mar 2016
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s CATS’ Purrfect Night at The Jellicle Ball @ Adelaide Festival Theatre – Review
They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks and some would say that applies to our feline friends as well. In the latest incarnation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s…
17 Mar 2016
WOMADelaide 2016 Sunday Musings From David Robinson @ Adelaide Botanic Park – Festival Review
Sunday. For some, it’s a day of rest. Not so at Botanic Park, where the WOMADelaide festival of world music steams into its third day. Will the thousands of…
17 Mar 2016
Woodstock Revisted fest. 1965 Masters Apprentices, Bald Eagles, Full Tilt Janis and Graham Cornes Allstars: Sun 3 Apr – River Torrens – Media Release
Music really did define the ‘60s and no single event did that more than Woodstock. Although it wasn’t the first of it’s kind, Woodstock gathered the very best –…
15 Mar 2016
WOMADelaide 2016 Monday Musings from David Robinson @ Adelaide Botanic Park – Festival Review
The final stanza of this year’s WOMADelaide takes place under blue-ish skies; it is warm without being too hot. I’ve made the effort to arrive relatively early…
15 Mar 2016
WOMADelaide 2016 Monday Thoughts from Matt Saunders @ Adelaide Botanic Park – Festival Review
As I was rushing down Frome Road to make it to the Foundation Stage in time to catch Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro’s 5pm performance, my left sandal came apart.…