THIS monster-free, earth-bound sociological thriller is science fiction for people to whom reality-based science offers better stimulation. The only universal currency is time. Everybody gets 25 years at birth and year 26 in which to…
IN this flawed yet perversely engaging blood-and-gutser, a reticent, laconic, careful young man (Ryan Gosling) drives stunt cars for movie-makers and getaway cars for bandits. Driving fast and surviving danger are his only interests. His…
A MIXED martial arts, cage-fighting contest with a winner-take-all, $5 million prize underlies Gavin O’Connor’s film. Its rules are simple. No eye-gouging or scrotum twisting or kicking. Obey the referee’s orders: “Go to war”. O’Connor’s…
RICHARD Avoade’s adaptation of Joe Dunthorne’s novel of transition from childhood’s innocence to the confusion and turmoils of adolescence may resonate with film-goers. Only child Oliver (Craig Roberts) is determined to cease being virgin before…
FILMS exploring benign transmogrification – “Trading Places”, “Big” – achieved fame because writers and directors acknowledging the theme’s impossibility explored beyond its inherent comedy values. Writers John Lucas and Scott Moore employ gutter vocabulary, pooing…
ACT Liberal arts spokesperson VICKI DUNNE reminds the ANU what the School of Music means to Canberra
Music student ROHAN MOORE, of Save Our SOM, says there have been no wins for the School of Music
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…
