10 October 2014 London It’s London Film Festival time. I review Rolf de Heer’s stirring film Charlie’s Country, and the fun … More
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Who’s That Girl?
4 October 2014 London Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn’s potboiler about a violently dysfunctional marriage, has the big screen adaptation it didn’t … More
I Dreamed of Kate
25 September 2014 London Legendary singer Kate Bush made the Mother of All Comebacks with her live show Before the … More
Where The Wild Things Were
12 September 2014 London This month, Allen Hall Theatre, my university’s resident theatre teaching and performance space, celebrates its centenary. … More
Swimming Against the Tide
31 August 2014 London Barracuda, Christos Tsiolkas’ fantastic new novel about the rise and fall of a young Greek-Australian swimmer, … More
We Don’t Need Another Hero
15 July 2014 London Australian swimming star Ian Thorpe becomes the latest sports celebrity to admit he’s gay. But is this … More
Gay Pride and Gefiltefish
28 June 2014 London An unconventional Gay Pride weekend in London, involving fried fish balls in Hampstead. It’s Gay Pride … More
Once When We Were In Love
26 June 2014 London In which I see the charming and quietly heartbreaking Once: the Musical and weep like a child for … More
Uh Huh, Her
Her, Spike Jonze’s unbearably winsome film about a man who falls in love with his computer operating system, drowns in a sea … More
The Thrill of the Lash
23 June 2014 London Roman Polanski’s film version of Venus In Fur – a sexual tug-of-war between a submissive director and a … More
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