by Dave Bradley | Aug 1, 2017 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock, M, 104 Mins The writings of Kurt Vonnegut (1922 – 2007) never properly translated to the screen, although that didn’t stop many directors trying (maybe look for the all-star 1999 failure Breakfast Of Champions too?), and yet this 1972 shot at filming...
by Clayton Werner | Jul 30, 2017 | Live Music, Music, Reviews
Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, Sat 29 Jul. With a new retrospective CD in the offing (Roll Back The Stone was recorded in what must have been high energy days at the Scrap Museum in Melbourne) – some different takes of both vintage and newer Mark Seymour songs are...
by Bobby Goudie | Jul 29, 2017 | Family Entertainment, Musical Theatre, Reviews, Theatre
The Fisher Chapel, Scotch College, Fri 28 Jul. Based on the single-panel cartoons by Charles Addams, The Addams Family the musical opened on Broadway in 2010 and premiered in Adelaide with Matt Byrne Media in 2014. The ghoulish characters of Gomez, Morticia,...
by TheClothesLine | Jul 7, 2017 | Musical Theatre, Reviews, Theatre
Arts Theatre, Thu 6 Jul. With music and lyrics by The Bee Gees and based on the 1975 article Tribal Rites Of The New Saturday Night and the famous 1977 movie, you would think that the musical version would be a sure hit. The show continues to tour the world, but fails...
by Dave Bradley | Jun 27, 2017 | Book, Books, Reviews
François Truffaut (Faber) 2017, 367pp, RRP $39.99 First published in 1966 and mostly drawn from a series of interviews conducted in 1962 (with help from a hard-working interpreter), this often-reprinted-and-revised tome is one of the key works of cinematic literature...