Review: Choir hands centre stage to orchestra
music
“Choral Gold: A Treasury of Choral Music”
The Llewellyn Choir, Canberra Youth Orchestra and Canberra Children’s Choir, conducted by Rowan Harvey-Martin
At Llewellyn Hall, November 17
Reviewed by Helen Musa
Review: ‘Robot and Frank’ (M) ***
THIS is director Jake Schreier’s debut film and Christopher Ford’s first screenplay for the big screen. Do these novitiates entitle them to special consideration...
Review: ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2’ (M) **
I SAW this film in an otherwise deserted cinema except for a pair of young (here a relative term) women who watched in silence...
Review: Capturing the the emotion of landscape
visual art
“Marking Place”
Works by G W Bot, Anita McIntyre and Wendy Teakel
CMAG, until March 21
Reviewed by Johnny Milner
Review: Under Milk Wood ‘a visual radio play’
theatre
“Under Milk Wood”
By Dylan Thomas, directed by Dianna Nixon for Wild Voices and The Street Theatre
At The Street until November 17.
Reviewed by Joe Woodward
The Rocket Man blows them away
music
Elton John
Canberra Stadium, November 14
Reviewed by Ian Meikle
Picture perfect at the Pod
PICTURESQUE is how I describe Podfood – a charming restaurant set among beautifully established gardens at Pialligo Plant Farm, only minutes from the city.
At...
Review: Eco Diva falls flat
“Diva Sheila, Eco Diva: Takin' it to the Street,” at The Street Theatre, 7.30pm until tomorrow Saturday, November 10.
Reviewed by Helen Musa
‘The Sessions’ (M) ****
THE 1997 Documentary Oscar went to “Breathing Lessons: The Life and work of Mark O’Brien”, a polio victim depending on an iron lung since...
Review: ‘The First Fagin’ (PG) *** and a half
THIS made-in-Oz generic hybrid combines documentary, delivering facts that may or may not take sides, with narrative, entertaining the film-goer with or without message.
Joint...
Review: ‘Seven Psychopaths’ (MA) *** and a half
BRITISH writer/director Martin McDonagh’s second feature film (he has also written several successful stage plays), presses all the right buttons spreading a layer of...
Review: Short and diverse dance
dance
“Short+Sweet Dance”
Directed by Adelina Larsson
The Courtyard Studio, Canberra Theatre Centre
Until Sunday, November 11
Reviewed by Samara Purnell
Review: Camera the ultimate witness
“Bare Witness” by Mari Lourey, directed by Nadja Kostich, at The Street Theatre, until November 10. Bookings to 6247 1223.
Reviewed by Helen Musa
Review: ‘You Will Be My Son’ (M) ****
WIDOWED vigneron Paul considers his son Martin (Laurent Deutsch) to lack the qualities necessary for controlling a vertically-integrated operation from vineyard to bottle.
To supervise...
Review: ‘End of Watch’ (M) ***
IN writer/director David Ayer’s Los Angeles police drama, Jake Gyllenhaal plays former US Marine Brian with a law degree and a yearning to become...
Review: Sensitive celebrations from Brew
music
Brew Guitar Duo
10th Anniversary Concert
At Gandel Hall, National Gallery of Australia.
Reviewed by Clinton White
Review: Welcome return to Brigadoon
musical theatre
“Brigadoon”
The Queanbeyan Players
At The Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre until November 17.
Reviewed by Bill Stephens
Smoque signals a good start
THERE’S no doubt that the new, authentic southern American barbecue place in the city is “smoquen”. And I mean “smoquen”!
Smoque dares you to change...
Review: ‘Dredd’ (MA)* and a half
THIS execrable futurist fantasy lacks plot, acting merit, message or filmic quality.
Later this century, from Boston to Washington DC, a continuous conurbation once home...
Review: ‘Argo’ (M)*** and a half
IN 1979, retaliating against the US refusal to deliver the fugitive Shah to Ayatollah Khomeni’s regime, an Iranian mob sacked the US embassy in...
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