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Kinetic Jazz Festival – Voice and masks. (Festival Review)
I heard the voice of an angel this weekend. The sublime Tanya Sparke, supported by the very famous Peter Dasent. All works performed were written by Sparke while on residency in Bundanoon. Here is a...
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Pythagoron Inc. 1977 – Electronica at its most mystical. (music review)
I’ve been letting it all take me away today (actually that’s not true – I’ve really been in a writing frenzy) to the sounds of Pythagoron Inc. 1977… and that part is true! Download:...
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Cloud Atlas – The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer make the most expensive...
Lana and Andy Wachowski have definitely got a “real is not really what you think real is” thing going. With the enormous success of their Matrix trilogy and then the follow-up successes with films such...
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Simon Stone takes the South out of Tennessee...
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is starting to look a little like a Shakespeare play, it’s been done and played with so many times. When one is going to see a play one is so familiar with, it becomes more an...
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Cooper / Abrahams duo at the Seymour Centre in Sydney tonight. Catch it if...
For those lucky enough to be in Sydney at the moment, two of my absolute favorite artists are playing together tonight at the Sima lounge at the Seymour Centre. Mike Cooper and Chris Abrahams will be...
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Mike Cooper and Chris Abrahams play the Sound Lounge. (Music review)
I was lucky enough to attend a wonderful gig here in Sydney on Friday night. The amazing Mike Cooper, who started as a Blues guitarist and a singer-songwriter, is currently in Australia and he...
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Judy Kang – Judy Kang reimagines our relationsihp with the classical. (Music...
I’ve been listening to this album for quite a while and it has grown on me, so much so that I’m searching for it in my playlist these days. It covers such a variety of sound imagery that I find my mood...
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2013 Lammy Awards – The Submissions, The Nominations and me.
I am a proud member of the LAMB (Large Association of Movie Blogs) and have been for just under a year now. I’m still not able to spend any social time on The Lamb, but what I do go there for is the...
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The Credeaux Canvas – Sure Foot Productions does Keith Bunin. (theatre review)
In an interview for AIMbitious TV, Keith Bunin talks about solving the “problem” of writing and also asserts that deep engagement with this process is the role of art in general. For Bunin, his writing...
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First Position – Bess Kargman and the complicated world of child dancers....
Documentaries and film have a complex relationship – but then anything that wants to be associated with a representation of “the truth” has an equally tough time. Film, as we have explored many times...
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Tabu – Miguel Gomes and the endless beauty of cinema. (film review)
Just when you lose faith in a fresh face ever being planted on a post-colonial tale, along comes Tabu with a face so fresh I was even able to forgive the not-so-blatant mocking of my beloved European...
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A Butcher of Distinction – James Dalton directs Rob Hayes’ question of...
From the opening sentence in A Butcher of Distinction, instantly recognizable is the costumes worn by Liam Nunan and Heath Ivey-Law in their roles as Hugo and Hartley. The boys wear all...
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The Perverts Guide to Cinema – Slavoj Žižek and the reality of cinematic...
(This is a review of Sophie Fiennes film The Perverts Guide to Cinema. The follow up to this film, The Perverts Guide to Ideology will be shown at the Sydney Film Festival. You can grab your tickets...
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Sping Breakers – Harmony Korine goes wild. (film review)
I knew as soon as I saw the trailer, I was going to love Spring Breakers. Spring Breakers is biting social satire. Those who regularly attend the real spring break would be hugely offended if they...
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The Hangover 3 – What’s not to love? (film review)
I saw The Hangover part three earlier this week. I took a demographically appropriate eighteen year old white male along with me, and he laughed all the way through, as did all the people around me,...
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Computer Chess – Andrew Bujalski reminds us that Computers used to be...
Computer Chess is currently playing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can grab your tickets here. Surely one of the most intensely disappointing aspects of the digital age is capitalism’s ability to...
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Algorithms – Ian McDonald reminds us, four moves in we are all blind. (Sydney...
Algorithms is currently screening at the Sydney Film Festival. You can grab your tickets here. Quite by accident, this is the second film I have watched about chess in the 2013 Film Festival. The...
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This Ain’t no Mouse Music – Chris Simon and Maureen Gosling remind us things...
This Ain’t no Mouse Music was shown at the Sydney Film Festival but has now completed its run there. There are those who consider the “capturing” of art to be a bourgeois form of colonization. Music,...
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Sydney Film Festival Round up – 60 film filled years!
At the suggestion of my good friend Chris over at moviesandsongs365, I thought I’d give a small closing post regarding my Sydney Film Festival experience. I still have reviews to post – a few feature...
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Body Language – Luke Holmes and the problems of connection. (Theatre Review)
All writers (and almost all creatives) need their influence. Satre’s criticism (and Lacan’s) of the ‘empty gestures’ associated with appropriating a kind of persona in order to achieve is warranted,...
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