HISTORY does not record any face-to-face meeting between the Mary Queen of Scots and Queen Elizabeth I. The daughter of Scottish king James V, Mary acceded to the Scottish throne when she was six days […]
WRITER/director Paolo Sorrentino has made a curate’s egg of a biopic about a very rich man who achieved world fame by the way he dabbled in Italian politics. Watching it, you might be forgiven for […]
THIS fantasy/actioner, which doesn’t open in the US until next week, has crept up on Australia with little if any warning. After a stylishly-animated introduction summarising the Arthurian legend, writer/director Joe Cornish’s second feature segues […]
ballet / “Coppelia – Storytime Ballet”, Australian Ballet, at Canberra Theatre until January 19. Reviewed by BILL STEPHENS.
“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Musical,” directed by Jack O’Brien, Capitol Theatre, Sydney until May 19, Reviewed by HELEN MUSA
theatre / “Once Upon A Mattress”, directed by Anita Davenport, Ickle Pickle Productions, at Belconnen Theatre until January 25. Reviewed by LEN POWER.
WHICH of your senses to you regard as the most indispensable? A friend from my first job who recently resurfaced from a Canberra suburb tells me about the car smash that among other things destroyed […]
NO, I haven’t forgotten to give stars to this movie that’s reportedly (in an accompanying pre-release teaser) “inspired by the real events from the life of writer/director Sean Anders”. I just don’t have any stars […]
Opera / Puccini’s “La Bohème”. At Sydney Opera House. Directed by Gale Edwards, conducted by Benjamin Northey, until March 28. Reviewed by HELEN MUSA
BO Burnham is a young (born 1990) comedian who burst on to the scene after posting YouTube videos of himself singing quirky songs while playing simple piano melodies. Never heard of Bo Burnham? Neither had […]
HOW the years fly! It’s more than half a century since Julie Andrews played, danced and sang her way through the movie based on PL Travers’ stories about a magic nanny on the way to […]
REMEMBER Hiccup, the Viking lad who became chief of a community that cherished its dragons? Bad guys led by Grimmel want to change all that felicity. Salvation may lie if the community at Berk and […]
“’Funny’, as every literate person understands, comes in two flavours – ha-ha and peculiar. The writer of ‘Holmes and Watson’ has striven to satisfy both, says movie reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD.
“Without all that CGI fat, ‘Aquaman’ would have been much less unbearable.” Reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD isn’t rapt.
Craft / “Furniture 2018”. At Bungendore Wood Works, until January 31. Reviewed by MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE.
“VICE” claims rather more dictionary space than most four-letter words. In the argot of US politics, one (there are numerous others) meaning of “vice” is the person who has run for election with the incumbent […]
HISTORY records the reign of Anne, daughter of the last Stuart king James II, as a tumult of political, military, social and cultural achievements relatively unmarred by misfortunes or disasters. The present Royal family acceded […]
WHEN Ralph hits the big screen, things that might normally (hey, what’s “normal” in the cyber world?) have existed only on a small screen get bigger, noisier, longer to reach a conclusion and more improbable […]
“Handsomely mounted, ‘Colette’ pulls few if any punches in depicting a relationship between a wife with a zest for life and a husband 15 years her senior,” writes film reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD.
Reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD says kids of or even beyond double-digit age may well go wild about “Bumblebee”. Adults may find its 113 minutes of same-old same-old to be a bore. You have been warned!
A HONDA Jazz was deliberately sideswiped by a car, which allegedly drove onto the wrong side of the road in a road rage incident on Monday (January 7). The Honda was travelling northbound on William Hovell […]
TWO areas where bushfires were started by lightning in the ACT yesterday (January 18) are being monitored by the ACT Emergency Services at Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve and Mount Gingera, west of Corrin Dam The fire at Tidbinbilla […]
IT was a “near-miss” at an accident site this afternoon (Friday, January 18) when a vehicle, which is of interest to police, sped through a road block, putting people in danger. A motorcycle officer, who […]
A SEVERE thunderstorm predicted to hit Canberra this afternoon will likely produce damaging winds, according to the Bureau of Meteorology. Braidwood, Goulburn, Cooma and Yass also might be affected. ACT emergency services says Canberrans can […]
PROF Ken Lampl’s move back to teaching and composition is entirely of his own volition, “CityNews” discovered this afternoon in an exclusive interview with the head of the School of Music, who will step down […]
