The all-new Australian production of the hugely successful American Broadway musicalA Chorus Line, will open at Burswood Theatre on 20 October 2012. A Chorus Line tells the story of seventeen dancers desperately auditioning for eight stage roles in a musical. This audition is the chance of a lifetime. It’s what they’ve worked for – with [...]
Tucked away on the ABC earlier this year was a neat six part series about a group of gay science fiction geeks. Tony Truslove played Max, the ‘normal’ one, so Graeme Watson thought it would be a good idea to catch up with him and reflect on the outlandishness of it all… Did you have [...]
Hannah Gadsby is heading back to Perth for the Perth International Comedy Festival. Twelve months since we last chatted to the Tasmanian comedian she’s completed a second season as Adam Hills’ sidekick on In Gordon Street Tonight and performed her acclaimed new show at The Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Gadsby’s new show is titled Hannah [...]
Dylan is often out on the town as his alter ego, Delvira Midnight, we caught up over lunch at the Court Hotel. What’s your guilty pleasure? Chocolate What’s next to your bed? There’s a big pile of false eye lashes and make up and my diary. If you were a superhero, what would be your [...]
Watching a new James Bond film, and seeing that a great character can transcend a great actor – even Sean Connery – got writer Jonathon Lynn thinking that the well-loved British satires, Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister could survive the death of its two biggest stars, Paul Eddington and Sir Nigel Hawthorne. Lynn got [...]
(M) Directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Every now and again, an actor goes to extraordinary lengths to create an unforgettable character and this is what Sean Penn does as he transforms into Cheyenne – a bored, wealthy, retired American glam rock star now living in Dublin. Based on The Cure’s Robert Smith, he is a complex [...]
(MA) Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Winterbottom takes Thomas Hardy’s classic Tess of the d’Urbervilles from the cold climes of nineteenth century England to the heat of modern day India. In Rajasthan, Trishna (Slumdog Millionaire’s Freida Pinto) has to go out to work when her father’s accident prevents him from earning an income because she is [...]
(PG) Directed by Emilio Estevez. While Charlie Sheen has been getting all the media attention for being an idiot, the rest of his family seem to be quietly getting on with more interesting endeavours. His brother, Emilio Estevez, known for his acting roles in The Breakfast Club, The Outsiders and Young Guns, has written and [...]
(MA) Directed by Kieran Darcy-Smith. Not long after Steph (Teresa Palmer) meets her exciting new boyfriend Jeremy (Antony Starr), she convinces her sister Alice (Felicity Price) and Alice’s husband Dave (Joel Edgerton) that they should all go to Cambodia for a holiday. Filmed in Cambodia, Wish You Were Here opens with a kaleidoscope of images [...]
Ecstasy (MA) (Directed by Rob Heydon) Irvine Welsh’s novel Trainspotting rocked the world with the uncompromising way it portrayed heroin addicts in squalid Edinburgh. Danny Boyle’s film, based on Welsh’s book, has to be rated as one of the most shocking and memorable films of all time. Equally confrontational, but fortunately not quite as shocking, [...]
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