by Dave Bradley | Mar 30, 2016 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock, R, 83 Mins Churned out during the slasher boom of the late ‘70s/early ‘80s, this drab and dated 1981 horror has a few minor points still worth mentioning: 1) Star Melissa Sue Anderson was best-known at the time for the coyly conservative TV series Little House...
by Sarah Mena | Feb 15, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Comedy, Reviews
Austral Hotel – The Bunka, Sun 14 Mar Batman, Superman, The Hulk, Thor, everyone has their own favourite superhero. But the question is, how do you pick the most superior superhero, who rains supreme superhero of all the superheros? Well, the only way to find out is...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 24, 2015 | Books, Reviews
David Astle (Allen & Unwin) 2015, 308pp, RRP $22.99 Astle, legendary crossword setter for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age and an author of several books on wordplay themes (no less than Geoffrey Rush has described him as “The Sergeant Pepper of cryptic...
by Sarah Mena | Feb 25, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews
Austral Hotel’s Red Room, Tue Feb 24 Batman vs Superman? Iron Man vs Captain America? Cat Woman vs Wonder Woman? These are the age old questions that baffle even the greatest of minds, turn friends into enemies and will produce hours of fun at this year’s Battle of...
by Catherine Blanch | Jan 29, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Comedy
by Catherine Blanch. Comedian Dave Williams has always given his all, whatever he is doing. With a career that has spanned almost 20 years, he has worked alongside some of Australia’s comedy gold, including Jimeoin, Kitty Flanagan, Greg Fleet, Judith Lucy and Carl...
