Arts & Entertainment Reviews

Hail, Caesar! is a film that feels like a mess, but winds up a neatly wrapped, beautifully presented package.

Set in the changing economic and social times of the 1980s, Allen wants to make the world a better place but doesn’t realise the compromises he’ll make to get where he wants.

Crooked from hours hunched over a typewriter (or working in the bath) as a screenwriter, Cranston vividly portrays an erudite genius with a penchant for troublemaking.

Brooklyn is indeed a rare example of translating book to film that deserves accolades. Five stars.

There is an undercurrent of melancholy running through the entirety of Is the Is Are, which finds frontman Zachary Cole Smith confronting his own addiction.

It’s a warm and cosy recollection of time gone by. It feels like we’re sitting on a couch and flicking through a photo album with her.

There’s a thrill to the gleeful way he breaks the rules of cinema, by knowingly using metatextual references, anachronisms, and fascinatingly oblique structures to tell the story that he wants to tell, and that only he could.

As a technical achievement, The Revenant is often breathtaking, but there is a lopsided aspect to its storytelling and ultimately its execution.

When the three were side-by-side at the front of the stage, such was their chemistry as performers that they were like a mythical Hydra, or Cerberus; three heads attached to one body.

Through lengthy political discourse, deadpan acting, sound poetry of 21st Century internet buzzwords, an excerpt from one of the most popular Australian plays of the past few years, and even lyrical dance, Harriet and Pierce get wet, sweaty and silly.