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Barefoot In The Park
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His bio describes Neil Simon as "one of the world's most beloved playwrights", his plays have won numerous Tony awards and he received the Pulitzer Prize for Lost In Yonkers. Even those who are not regular theatres patrons have probably heard his … -
David Brent: Life on the Road
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After so many years we still find ourselves cheering on a man who, at heart, is the ultimate dreamer. -
Rackett at Brighton Up Bar
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That night a beacon was sent out in search of some heroes, who would in turn crank the volume up to eleven and destroy all in order for total rock domination. -
Glass Animals: How To Be A Human Being
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The album is about people - mostly other people, though Bayley admits some of it is "quite autobiographical but said through the eyes of someone else". -
Cass McCombs: Mangy Love
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McCombs' work has been harrowing in the past, but it has never been as direct in its despair and even aggressive as it is here. -
Rainbow Chan: Spacings
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The record shows us that pop has become permeable - formulas unreliable - and true invention like this is a rare and beautiful thing to encounter. -
Bijou - A Cabaret of Secrets & Seduction
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This is the world of Chrissie Shaw’s Bijou, the elderly woman made famous in a series of unforgettable pictures by the French photographer Brassai. -
Crystal Castles: Amnesty (I)
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Ethan Kath has soldiered on with the Crystal Castles name and delivered another record of ferocious, noise-damaged beats. -
High-Rise
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High-Rise succeeds as an adaptation because it translates the spark of the original novel to the screen brilliantly. -
Holy Balm: Activity
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Activity has an otherworldly, out-of-time quality, but it is far bolder and more exploratory than mere retro fetishisation. -
A Nest Of Skunks
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The radio is on talk back. It immediately presents the subject of the play, A Nest Of Skunks, the political climate and the opinion of the media. -
Alex Lahey: B-Grade University
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Throughout the EP she comes across as the kind of person you'd love to be able to hang out with. -
Truman
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Do you ever just want to stay in your seat when the movie is over? To sit with your feelings for a few more moments, undisturbed? -
NAO: For All We Know
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Take it as either a recommendation or a warning - NAO's debut full-length album For All We Know has a genealogy that can be traced back to R. Kelly, Aaliyah and The Spice Girls. -
Matt Gresham at The Oxford Circus
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Making his Sydney debut at The Oxford Circus, the gig was an intimate conversation between artist and audience. -
Embrace of the Serpent
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It belongs to a long lineage of surreal and strikingly composed adventure films, but Embrace of the Serpent is filled with a venomous anger aimed at the machinations and long-lasting effects of colonialism. -
Cristina In The Cupboard
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She's lying on the floor in a sleeveless white floral summer dress and pale pink ballet slippers. Behind her is a sandpit. Above her near the ceiling swings a pool of blue water. Occasionally it lurches dramatically of its own accord. Further back… -
Arab Film Festival: Halal Love (and Sex)
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A festival favourite at Sundance, Dubai and Rotterdam, Halal Love (and Sex) allows for a peak into the lives and relationships that operate under Islamic Law. -
Tangents: Stateless
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The music on Stateless is exploratory in the purest sense of the word, evoking landscapes and shapes and even a sense of light, the colour of the sky. -
Sing Street
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Sing Street is a sublime visual mixtape of everyone's teen years, when we were all discovering who we are and who we wanted to be.