by Michael Coghlan | Jan 4, 2019 | Film, Reviews, Theatre
Festival Theatre, Thu 3 Jan, 2019. Adapted by Carolyn Burns and directed by Simon Phillips, Adelaide Festival Centre presents Kay + McLean Productions’ North By Northwest. This production attempts to bring an action movie to the live stage, and it’s quite impressive....
by Adelaide Fringe Contributor | Mar 3, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Reviews, Theatre
Tandanya Theatre, Wed 2 Mar Did I get what I was expecting? No, but then you never do when you are watching Hitchcock do you? Reading the Fringe guide, I was expecting tension filled, suspenseful and improvised stories, what I got was definitely improvisational...
by Adelaide Fringe Contributor | Feb 13, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Reviews, Theatre
Star Theatre Two, Fri 12 Feb If you know yours Cocks, you’ll know these blondes. The ‘Icy Blondes’ of the movies Vertigo, The Birds and Pyscho are all represented here, meeting for the first time in the white room. Hitchcock himself is noted as saying that blondes...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 19, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Amy Simmons (Footprint) 2015, 89pp Freelance writer Simmons’ contribution to the ‘Devil’s Advocates’ series is a complex and enlightening analysis of a film that stands as one of writer/director Lars von Trier’s most confronting and endlessly controversial, which is...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 23, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Peter Swanson (Faber Fiction) 2015, 311pp, RRP $27.99 Swanson’s second novel after last year’s improbable but enjoyable enough The Girl With A Clock For A Heart suffers from the same problems – irksome characters, unlikely plot twists, too much blabbing – yet survives...
