by Dave Bradley | May 24, 2019 | Books, Reviews
C.A. Fletcher (Hachette Australia) 2019, 365pp, RRP $32.99 The first book by Scottish author Fletcher is a slightly odd read, mainly because our protagonist Griz is so unreliable and uses a curiously awkward voice that occasionally helps smooth over Fletcher’s own...
by Dave Bradley | Mar 2, 2016 | Film, Interviews, Music
by Dave Bradley Jed Kurzel recently spoke to us by phone about his musical score to his brother Justin’s acclaimed filming of Shakespeare’s Macbeth (and yes, there are some out there who’ll wish that I would stop writing that word). Here Jed discusses how he got...
by David Robinson | Feb 20, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Reviews, Theatre
Adelaide Botanic Garden – Noel Lothian Hall, Fri 19 Feb Jethro Compton’s production of Macbeth is back in Adelaide for its third Fringe, as part of the highly-regarded Bunker Trilogy. Audience members make their way into the smoky, dark bunker, where they find a...
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 Dave Bradley | Dec 10, 2014 | Books, Reviews
Judi Dench [With an Introduction by John Miller] (Hachette Australia) 2014, 256pp, RRP $45.00 This glossy, heavy tome is an updated and expanded edition of Dame Judi’s autobiographical effort from 2005, Scenes From My Life, and it’s somewhat fitting that it’s being...