Review – Amalgamy
Elja rarely misses a beat in her stagework; however, to sustain a show of this nature it requires that the performer be a very strong singer, and Elja is not flawless.
Category: Academy Awards 2014
Review – Pleasure Opera
Pleasure Opera combines the sophistication and intensity of traditional opera and fuses it with burlesque; adding strip tease and sex appeal to this classic art form. This is the story of one man’s quest...
Review – Chopper’s Big Fucken Late Show: Garden the Fuck Up!
Here’s a public service announcement: if the title of the show has “fuck” in it twice, and starts at 11PM, don’t expect it to be pre-schooler appropriate!
Review – Dallas Buyers Club
[Jared Leto’s] supporting role steals the spotlight, even alongside McConaughey’s colourful and commanding performance.
Review – 12 Years a Slave
When we first meet Solomon (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor) he is a skilled fiddle player with a wife and family, but by a ruse he finds himself drugged, chained, and sold to slavers.
Review – The Wolf of Wall Street
The Wolf of Wall Street is not a warts-and-all portrayal of Wall Street vice but is, at its core, an uninteresting brush-up of a man who has already received too much attention.
Review – American Hustle
Let me begin by saying that I found Silver Linings Playbook overhyped and underwhelming which is why I went into David O Russell’s follow-up American Hustle with a touch of trepidation.
Review – Gravity
Gravity is clockwork cinema: it is elegant and functional to the smallest detail, but taken whole, it is no less of a work of art.
