month : 03/2020 51 results

Three – Lister, Lane,Shechter coming to Brisbane this April!

THREE represents a series of incredible firsts for Australasian Dance Collective, including our very first mainstage performance under the company’s new name (formerly Expressions Dance Company). Brisbane’s own rising star of the choreographic world, Jack Lister, fuses dance and visual art to create not only a stunning mainstage performance but a unique foyer experience. Lister has also joined the collective as a company dancer, from Queensland Ballet.   //   Me...

Watch the trailer for Promising Young Woman – in cinemas April 16!

Everyone said Cassie was a promising young woman... until a mysterious event abruptly derailed her future. But nothing in Cassie’s life is what it appears to be: she’s wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she’s living a secret double life by night. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs of the past in this thrilling and wildly entertaining story.   //   Promising Young Woman stars Carey Mulligan, Laverne Cox, Bo ...

Watch the trailer for The Current War – starring Benedict Cumberbatch!

On the eve of triumph, his plans are upended by charismatic businessman George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon), who believes he and his partner, the upstart genius Nikolai Tesla (Nicholas Hoult), have a superior idea for how to rapidly electrify America: with AC current.   //   As Edison and Westinghouse grapple for who will power the nation, they spark one of the first and greatest corporate feuds in American history, establishing for future Titans of Industry the need ...

Watch the A Quiet Place Part II Cillian Murphy Featurette!

Following the deadly events at home, the Abbott family (Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe) must now face the terrors of the outside world as they continue their fight for survival in silence.   //   Forced to venture into the unknown, they quickly realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path. A Quiet Place Part II release date has now been postponed. www.facebook.com/ParamountPicturesAU

Honey Boy Movie Review

LaBeouf plays the father figure in the film and his son is played by two different actors, as the young boy by Noah Jupe (Ford V Ferrari and A Quiet Place) and the young adult by Lucas Hedges (Boy Erased and Lady Bird), both do a wonderful job. Jupe is especially expressive and delivers some very heartbreaking lines. LaBeouf’s father figure is a tormented man and bears the scars of a life without the compass that a compassionate upbringing can provide. This is a case study on how ...

The Victorian State Ballet’s Beauty & The Beast is coming to QPAC

The Victorian State Ballet’s Beauty & The Beast is rich with vibrant colour, virtue, sensibility, grace, intrigue and outstanding skill. Don’t miss all your favourite characters come to life, exhilarating solos and pas de deuxs with a cast of leading classical ballet artists from across Australia and abroad.   //   This is classical ballet at its finest! A memorable experience for the whole family. This event includes a meet & greet with the cast after the ...

Military Wives Movie Review

This ensemble grows and becomes much more than just a singing group and it increases in importance as its participants deal with the pressures and tragedies that can accompany life in the army. The large cast provides different view points from the various rungs of the military ladder.   //   Kristin Scott Thomas delivers one of her text book perfect performances as a repressed English lady with too much privilege and seemingly not enough humanity. There is more to her ...

The Peasant Prince: a tale for all ages

Based on ballet dancer Li Cunxin AO’s inspirational autobiography Mao’s Last Dancer, The Peasant Prince traces the journey of a young boy from rural China who, against all odds, becomes one of the most famous dancers in the world. The charming production stars exceptional young Brisbane-based dancer Hugo Tang from the Queensland Ballet Academy, performing choreography by Paul Boyd (Tall Poppies, The Red Shoes, Tormented Tangos). Conducted by Brett Kelly, The Peasant Prince is an ...

Queen & Slim Movie Review

She starts the film with an awkward date between two people, Queen (Jodie Turner-Smith) and Slim (Daniel Kaluuya), a couple that have very little in common. Queen is a sharply opinionated attorney and Slim is well, really just a dude. On the drive home they are pulled over by an overly aggressive police officer and after the stop escalates into violence, they feel forced to go on the run together.   //   The events of the confrontation become public knowledge via the ...

Triple X – the first trans love story on the Australian mainstage opens this month

Billed as the first trans love story on the Australian mainstage, Triple X is written by (and stars) acclaimed New York-based Australian performer/playwright/screenwriter/comedienne, Glace Chase, and will run from March 14 to April 4 in Queensland Theatre’s Bille Brown Theatre. Triple X examines the relationship between straight ‘Wall Street banker bro’, Scotty (Akos Armont), and Dexie (Chase), a trans performer with whom he starts an affair, just a few months out from his wedding ...