SACHA Baron Cohen produced, co-wrote and twice plays the title role in this collection of gags, a mostly coarse romantic comedy that delivers offence for the sake of being offensive. An acquired taste giving a…
A DESERTED, old mansion on a small island is connected by a causeway submerged at high tide to a bleak, decrepit village on the mainland where visitors are actively turned away. A young widowed lawyer…
THE conception for this fantasy packed with fictional horribles happened when star Johnny Depp told director Tim Burton of his enthusiasm for the 1960s TV series. Depp plays Barnabas, son of a wealthy New England…
FROM Finland via several other countries including Australia comes this blistering satire on just about everything worth mocking, for which the most apposite collective description is human stupidity. In 2018, on the dark side of…
AT the Australian Cinematographers Society annual awards recently, the National Film and Sound Archive’s CEO Michael Loebenstein announced young Canberra cinematographer Jimmy Ennett as the winner of the 2012 NFSA-ACS John Leake OAM Award for…
Music student ROHAN MOORE, of Save Our SOM, says there have been no wins for the School of Music
ACT Liberal arts spokesperson VICKI DUNNE reminds the ANU what the School of Music means to Canberra
CANBERRA’S musical heavyweights are throwing a free concert for the ACT community tonight to show the ANU what they can do. Organiser of the concert, pianist and masters student at the university, Andrew Rumsey, told…
THE ACT Division of the National Tertiary Education Union has condemned today’s announcement by the ANU of a possible fund-raising consortium as a case of exploiting community goodwill. NTEU said it was “a useful distraction…
IN a letter to the editor written to “CityNews”, Canberra Symphony Orchestra CEO Henry Laska has called on Canberra’s cultural circles to “take a step back” and work towards a considered solution to the current…
