by Clayton Werner | Sep 30, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Film, Reviews
[JAPAN] Mercury Cinema, Fri 25 Sep All the way from 1960, Akira Kurusawa’s classic black-and-white film is a strong piece of social, cultural and corporate criticism. I found myself comparing it to Orwell’s 1984, though the strong passion and melodrama being...
by Michael Coghlan | Sep 4, 2015 | Reviews, Theatre
Space Theatre, Thu 3 Sep F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is an American classic – an epic even – and this production is a thoroughly entertaining depiction of what is essentially a fascinating tale about east coast American society in the early 1920s. Jay...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 27, 2015 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock, M, 115 Mins Late great writer/director/producer Paul Mazursky’s somewhat forgotten fourth feature from back in 1974 is less of an ‘Issue’ movie (see his 1969 début Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and 1978’s feminist drama An Unmarried Woman) and more an...
by Rosie van Heerde | Aug 24, 2015 | Interviews, Theatre
by Rosie van Heerde. Adelaide Director Kerrin White continues a long and successful association with Adelaide Reperatory Theatre as he presents his latest production, Martin McDonaugh’s The Cripple Of Inishmaan. Regarded as one of McDonaugh’s best plays, the story is...
by Lynette Washington | Jul 18, 2015 | Entertainment, Film, Music, Musical Theatre, Reviews
Festival Theatre, Fri 17 Jul The Festival Theatre was overflowing with nuns, Marias, Gretas, Baronesses, brown paper packages tied up with strings, girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes and there was even a small gazebo in the stalls. It could only mean one...