month : 11/2015 14 results

The Last Witch Hunter Movie Review

If you can get past Diesel's quietly hilarious Norse beard, The Last Witch Hunter is a reasonably fun fantasy action thriller. It’s Middle Ages sections hark to the sword 'n' sorcery cheapies of the early eighties (The Sword and the Sorcerer, Beastmaster, Krull et al) while it's present day sections are solid Ghostbusters/Men In Black type fare with a dash of Underworld thrown in for good measure. It's all harmless fun, though the final showdown between the good guy and the bad girl is ...

Marbin – Aggressive Hippies Album Review

Aggressive Hippies (great album title by the way) rocks like a room full of well, aggressive hippies hopped up on famer’s finest gramercy green and does it ever pin the lobes back. Six string situationist Dani Rabin does his best to herd all the audio elephants in the room together and comes up trumpets. Danny Markovitch fills the saxtoon with lashings of drool inducing freakuencies that stitch together the aural tapestry while Greg Essig (skins) and John W. Lauter (low notes) do their ...

Liz Kitch in Spoilt at JWCOCA

You are invited to the most tragically hilarious wedding ever staged. From the creator of Skitch Tease and direct from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival comes Liz Skitch’s critically acclaimed new solo show, Spoilt. Worlds collide as the lives of a hapless bride-to-be, celebrity personal trainer, reality TV star, karaoke singing celebrant and caffé latte-sipping dog lover all come together climaxing in the most tragic and hilarious wedding reception ever staged. Warning; ...

The Dressmaker Movie Review

The story revolves around country life in a very small town and the often times negative effects of power and privilege filtered through gossip and innuendo. Kate Winslet is fantastic as Myrtle 'Tilly' Dunnage who returns to the town to address some long held secrets. Liam Hemsworth (brother of Thor) is also very effective as the love interest. The film is unafraid to throw the audience and the characters themselves under the bus and as such there are some very genuine moments of ...