by Michael Coghlan | Mar 13, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Dance, Event, Family Entertainment, Film, Live Music, Reviews
Adelaide Botanic Park, Sun 12 Mar. I felt like a fair weather friend as I arrived in the late afternoon after the rain had stopped. I tried not to look anyone who had weathered the days’ rain in the face as I took my place on the soggy ground out front of the Zoo...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 26, 2016 | Film, Movies, Reviews
Writer/director John Michael McDonagh is not to be confused with his playwright/writer/director brother Martin, although both went slightly nuts when they went to Hollywood, with Martin following up his very fine In Bruges with the wild, crazy and all-over-the-shop...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 26, 2016 | Film, Movies, Reviews
Amsterdam-born director/troublemaker Paul Verhoeven’s no stranger to movies with strong sexual content, either at home (Spetters, The 4th Man) or in America (Basic Instinct, Showgirls), and after a recent spell in the Netherlands (the fine Black Book, the virtually...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 26, 2016 | Film, Movies, Reviews
Director, co-producer and script adaptor Tom Ford’s first film (the Colin Firth-starring A Single Man) made quite an impact, and its considerable cred surely led him to being able to handle this major studio effort, with big names, serious prestige and, shall we say,...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 16, 2016 | Event, Film, Interviews, Pop Culture
by Dave Bradley. Jason Mewes speaks about what it’s like to be Jay, as in Jay from the films of Kevin Smith and alongside Smith’s own Silent Bob, and how the character (a sort of foul-mouthed Greek Chorus) has endured and allowed him to forge a very successful and...
by Matt Saunders | Sep 18, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Film, Reviews
[IRAN] Mercury Cinema, Sat 17 Sep. An impending celebrity visit brings tensions to the boiling point at a San Francisco Bay Area Iranian community radio station in this charmingly droll play on Waiting For Godot, which screened at Mercury Cinema as part of the 10th...