10 October 2014 London It’s London Film Festival time. I review Rolf de Heer’s stirring film Charlie’s Country, and the fun…
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…
I Dreamed of Kate
25 September 2014 London Legendary singer Kate Bush made the Mother of All Comebacks with her live show Before the…
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.…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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