by TheClothesLine | Sep 30, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Film, Reviews
[JAPAN] Mercury Cinema, Thu 24 Sep The Mercury Cinema’s season of the legendary and influential Akira Kurosawa’s take on film noir continues with a screening of Stray Dog, his 1949 contemporary police drama. Set in the sweltering heat of summer, the film stars Toshirô...
by David Robinson | Sep 30, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Film, Reviews
[Japan] Mercury Cinema, Wed 23 Sep High And Low, one of famed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s contemporary crime dramas, kicks off the three-film season of Kurosawa’s Film Noir, the cinematic highlight of this year’s OzAsia Festival. Released in 1963, it stars...
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 Dave Bradley | Jul 27, 2015 | DVDs, Film, Reviews
Paramount (M), 102 mins Time travel movies are always pretty silly, but feature début director Dean Israelite’s epic is enjoyably silly, with appealing leads, some nice gags (“Who’s Doctor Who?”) and lots of wannabe-brain-bending paradoxes more than making up for the...
by Dave Bradley | Jul 27, 2015 | DVDs, Film, Reviews
Shock, 97 Minutes (M) Director Megan Griffiths’ wry, under-the-radar character study is built upon lovely performances from Toni Collette and Thomas Haden Church as one of those unlikely odd-couple movie pairings that works like a comedic charm. Ellie Klug (Collette)...
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...