by Dave Bradley | Feb 12, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
Alex Frayne (Wakefield Press) 2020/2021, 214pp, RRP $75.00 Adelaidean Frayne’s third book (after Adelaide Noir and Theatre Of Life, both also published by Wakefield Press) mainly moves beyond the more urban locales of his previous tomes to spots further out into the...
by Dave Bradley | Sep 18, 2018 | Film, Reviews
2.5 stars (out of 5) A spin-off from and prequel to The Conjuring 2, this plodding horror is the origin story of the nasty phantom nun that appeared in that film and Annabelle: Creation (the other Conjuring spin-off/prequel), and please note that she was apparently a...
by Dave Bradley | Oct 11, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Edited by Jacqueline Furby and Stuart Joy (Footprint) 2015, 274pp, RRP $57.95 Furby and Joy’s academic tome is intended to delve into the myriad mysteries that run throughout the films of London-born writer, director, producer and sometime cinematographer and editor...
by Adelaide Fringe Contributor | Feb 21, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Comedy, Reviews
Tuxedo Cat @ Coffee Pot, Fri Feb 20 Jon Bennett’s It’s Rabbit Night!!! s a joyous, bonkers, whole venue experience. The ascent to his venue is a steep staircase which is narrow and vertiginous, then you go through the antechamber (getting warmer), through a vestibule,...
by David Robinson | Feb 20, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Reviews, Theatre
Holden Street Theatres’ The Manse, Thu Feb 19 Hannah Norris is extremely convincing as the disturbed, disturbing “Woman” at the centre of Duncan Graham’s dark work, Cut. The woman is, in equal parts, pleasant and light, vulnerable and terrified, and instinctively...
