Review – Hamlet and Juliet
Fringe veterans Sound & Fury know what they are doing and clearly love doing it.
Category: Reviews
Review – ‘6’ and ‘7’
The first six dancers moved across the stage in pulsating darkness to eerie, hypnotic music. The second seven danced in white in utter silence until they began to make noises that were halfway between a mosquito and a Gregorian chant.
Review – Ibsen in One Take
Plays and movies are normally kept apart like peas and carrots. Yet here is Ibsen in One Take, happily breaking all the rules of dinner plate organisation.
Review – Synergy Percussion meets Noreum Machi
This endearing South Korean group gets you involved and hits you with a huge sound that you’d expect from the main stage at Womadelaide.
Review – Koo! Kin Dza Dza
This beautifully rendered Russian animation applies a satirical lens to stratified class systems.
Review – Omar
Omar is a taut and aesthetically stunning film that breaks your heart then smashes you in the face. It’s a tough story to take, but an important one.
Review – Why Don’t You Play In Hell?
In this insane gore-fest, a club of wannabe film-makers band together with an inarticulate loser and a psychotic former child star to film an epic katana battle between rival yakuza clans.
Review – Dream of the Ghost Story
Showcasing precisely synchronised mastery of various props and techniques, the Shandong Acrobatic Troupe elevates the fable to the divine.
Review – Red Sorghum
Every family has a history. A rich tapestry of heartache, joy, tragedy and triumph. Red Sorghum is one such history which juxtaposes simple beauty with senseless carnage.
Review – Boyhood
Boyhood is a fraught yet funny film, and takes the unique approach of charting 12 actual years of Mason’s life.
Review – Still Life
See Still Life if you need a good cry and a reminder to spend more time with the people you love.
Review – Ettie’s Boys
This account of one of the Great War’s most under-reported struggles is long overdue, although Ettie herself would probably have wondered what all the fuss was about.
Review – Half of a Yellow Sun
Set in Nigeria, and based on the novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun is a tale of interpersonal tragedy set against the background of the Biafran War (1967-1970).
Review – Bad Neighbours
Bad Neighbours is destined to be one of those touchstones comedies that teenagers will rewatch endlessly and adults will hold up as a classic of the genre.
