Arts & Entertainment Reviews

Winner of the Berlinale Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize for opening new perspectives and the Silver Bear for Best Actress for Ana Brun, The Heiresses is screening at the State Theatre June 16 and 17 as part of Sydney Film Festival.

Few films have tried to balance two very different styles into one movie. Green Book is an harmonious accomplishment of just that. Directed by Peter Farrelly, the film is a very much a road trip movie but with tremendous heart and a heartfelt mess…

To call Vice stylistic would be a gross understatement. There's a CGI heart beating to the match cut of a toy rooster, complete Shakespearean dialogue for one scene just for the lolz, and a moment where the credits starts rolling midway through th…

Having a passionate preference for this work as a novel, and having devoured the tomb a number of times, I must admit that I attended the theatre opening night, as a guest not the reviewer, and with trepidation. You'd understand. You'd be familiar…

In many ways, the Icelandic composer and multi-instrumentalist hovers above genre. Beyond his classical instrumentation, sound does not answer to the structural expectations of classical music, nor is it under the same social scrutinies: somewhere, an early applause spilt out before a piece had finished.

Many of us grew up watching Robert Redford. This veteran actor has went through a considerable amount of change in the film and television industry making him quite the time capsule. A productive one at that, going through a plethora of theatre, t…

To this day, I still think one of the most amazing pieces any beginner pianist can learn is Bach’s Prelude No.1 in C major. It’s simple, in common time, no pesky key signatures, and can make every parent feel good about investing their first h…

The opening commands our attention. Even as we return to our seats after interval, a lone dancer is on a silent stage. Smoke from the smoke machine, is the first indication of what's to come. If the hint hadn't already been given away by t…

"The play's the thing, " said Hamlet. What does it take to rent a tiny corner of a warehouse bunker, full of the dust of disrepair and a decade of emptiness, cold as Antarctica in winter, hidden amongst the war zone that is Sydney Park and invite…

Custody is a strong execution of simplicity. This French drama is the antithesis of overcompensating in cinematic storytelling gracing us with a provocative script and great performances throughout its 93 minute runtime. With a scre…