Review – Movie 43
Be warned, don’t bring your grandparents to this movie (unless they’re totally wasted).
Author: heckler
Big Day Out 2013
This year’s Big Day Out more than exceeded my high expectations. The drink lines were short, the food delicious and the music sublime. Each year I say ‘this year will be my last’ however, if this festival continues to deliver in this fashion, I think I’ll be going forever.
Review – Silver Linings Playbook
Everyone likes to hate on rom-coms. And with good reason too. Most films in this genre are suited for people with IQs lower than their age and aimed at ‘holiday’ markets where most movies get decent box office numbers simply because people are going to go see something (read: anything) at the movies. And then, every now and then, out of the blue, almost as if it was made by accident, you get a gem of a movie like Silver Linings Playbook.
Review – Life of Pi
Life of Pi is a an ambitious film. Based on a book by the same name, it was repeatedly described as unfilmable. So who decided to film it? Ang Lee of course. Your average movie buff will recall that Lee has made a career out of surprising viewers with his film choices.
Review – Samsara
Samsara is a visual documentary filmed over a period of almost five years, in twenty-five countries. What’s a visual documentary? Well, it’s a lot like a normal documentary, except without any dialogue. Zilch. No narration, no interviews and no Morgan Freeman.
Review – Zero Dark Thirty
Zero Dark Thirty is one ambitious piece of work. Directed by Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, the film is a procedural police drama blown up to a world-spanning, history-defining scale…
Adelaide Fringe 2013 is Coming!
Like 90s spam for physical enhancements or James Cameron’s box-office revenue, next year’s Fringe promises to be the biggest yet! We sent a wee-little heckler to check out the truth behind these exciting claims.
Review – Margaret Fulton: Queen of the Dessert
Margaret Fulton: Queen of the Dessert was like attending a charming dinner party where you are sitting next to your best mate, but opposite Grandad Bob – who fights you for the gravy dish and can’t take his eyes from your chest. You turn to one side and love relishing in old memories and laughing at good times; turn to the other and you can’t escape the cringe-worthy stories and vulgar jokes.
Review – Daisy Bates: Tales of Kabbarli
It took me a little while to connect with Daisy, I’m not sure if this was just my ear tuning to her Irish accent or if it was due to her ditheriness at the start, but once the stories of her Aboriginal people and her time at Ooldea started to flow it was hard not to be transported back to the desert.
Review – Radiohead: Australia Tour 2012
If you paid a princely sum for tickets and travelled interstate* to go see one of your favourite bands, you would definitely expect it to be a great concert.
KURT – Justin Burford
Grunge fans, its time to get your cabaret on. As for everyone else, nevermind.
Antigone by Jean Anouilh
A classic tale of rebellion and civil disobedience, the original Antigone is more than two millennia old. Written by Sophocles in roughly 450 BC, this provocative Greek tragedy was a controversial piece even back then.
Sam Simmons – About the Weather
This show has a bursting live energy and Simmons makes a genuine and successful effort to connect with his audience. It’s very weird but it’s a lot more than ‘just weird’.
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