PWF Review: The Romanovs
Montefiore began with a frame of reference that would be recognisable to most – 'Game of Thrones'. Yet the families of Westeros are quite benign and pale in comparison next…
Fringe World Review: Stuart Bowden – Wilting in Reverse
Like Bowden's previous creations, 'Wilting in Reverse' throbs with lonely-hearted dream textures, aches over love and loss, and is obsessed with the silly yet sublime fragility of the earth and…
Fringe World Review: Australia, It’s Time to Clean Your Room
It runs on a roundabout argument/counter-argument counterpoint, but it’s missing interlocking sections, call-backs, dramatic peaks. What should be a series of poignant sketches sometimes feels like a string of comments…
Fringe World Review: Purgatorio
Superficially, this play is about a lover scorned; about murder, and suicide, and irrational behaviours. These are explored after the fact – or, more specifically, after life itself.
Review: Loaded
Rather than feeling like the work of young writers auditioning for space on the main stage, the works swelled with daring, collective artistry and creativity, striving to engender the most…
Review: The Revenant
It’s a relentless, exhausting story of revenge and survival, elevated beyond mere tropes by the expert cinematography and editing of Emmanuel Lubezki and Stephen Mirrione (both of whom worked on…
Review: Carol
Director: Todd Haynes Starring: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara Watching Carol is like falling in love. An intoxicating, all-consuming, forbidden love that smells of cigarette smoke and lingering perfume. This adaptation…
Southpaw
Director: Antoine Fuqua Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, 50 Cent, Forest Whittaker Admittedly, I was excited for Southpaw. Jake Gyllenhaal transformed himself drastically for the role, and the last time…
Mac Demarco – Another One (Captured Tracks)
For all the ways Another One is a simple, polished little edible derived straight from countless artists before him, Mac Demarco’s whole thing as a popstar who’s the sum of…
Tame Impala – Currents (Interscope)
I saw Kevin Parker the other day. It was a Thursday, he was drinking with his girlfriend at the Norfolk, doing his best to be remain anonymous in the mixed…