Tag: Review
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Review: Interpol & Bloc Party @ Hordern Pavillion, w/ Dust (Sydney)
Last weekend, indie-rock legends Interpol and Bloc Party co-headlined two shows in Sydney at the Hordern Pavilion for the first time post-COVID. The hype was real. Safe to say both bands dominated the stages just as they did in their impactful era of the 2000s, and despite their prolonged absence, both iconic bands illuminated the…
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UOW Theatre and Performance’s ‘The Antipodes’: A Writer’s Take on Actors Playing Writers
DISCLAIMER: As a reviewer and writer, I feel it is my duty to disclose my closeness to this play to maintain reviewer integrity. Full disclosure, I know most of this cast and crew well and one of them is in fact my boyfriend, Mitchell Lee. The Antipodes by Annie Baker is a play about a…
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Champions – Film Review Friday
First, Woody Harrelson starred alongside Wesley Snipes in ‘White Men Can’t Jump’, a comedy film in which Harrelson is a conman, teaming up with Snipes in order to bet on himself in a basketball game and win big. Next, Harrelson starred alongside Will Ferrell in ‘Semi-Pro’ where he plays a backup point guard who gets…
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UOW Theatre and Performance’s ‘The Iphigenia Project’: The Delirium of Grief and Warfare
‘The Iphigenia Project’ follows the production of two plays, Iphigenia and Clytemnestra by Suhayla El-Bushra and Lulu Raczka, respectively, that independently and correspondingly explores the sacrificial burden of duty and grief amidst a background of war. Clytemnestra, while not as action-packed as its predecessor, demonstrates a necessary meditation on love and grief following the sacrifice…
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UOW Theatre and Performance’s ‘Chekhov in Hell’: Loose in London
UOW’s theatre season is pumping this year, with some exciting performances that will be blowing the roof off of the Julian Broadbent building. This week we have Dan Rebellato’s Chekhov in Hell, directed by Peta Downes, appearing from the 26th to the 28th of October 2023. The coming weeks will see The Iphigenia Project, Life…
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UOW Theatre and Performance’s ‘Juliet & Romeo’: Wayward Kids in the Carpark
A Theatre Review by Paige Jenkins and Skyla Yorke. Theatre lovers filled the foyer of UOW’s Jillian Broadbent building on Friday night to watch the first of many shows put on by the University’s theatre majors, ‘Juliet and Romeo’, directed by Tim Maddock. The performance, a final assessment for the semester, was a smashing and…
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Censor – Film Review Friday
It’s the coke-fueled era of the 1980s, ‘Scarface’ is in theatres bursting with gratuitous violence, everybody’s tuning in for the Live Aid concert where Freddy Mercury will give possibly his greatest performance and the government is cracking down on the rotten and filthy video nasties that plague VHS stores with the express intent to make…
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Dan in Real Life – Film Review Friday
It’s a Friday night at 6PM, you have work in the morning and your friends are all out drinking at the club. They asked you to come out but you’re simply too tired, don’t want to spend any money and don’t feel like dressing up. It’s a Friday night at 6PM and you just want…
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Barbie Was Already Kenough
Written by K.M.D. I’ve always been a Barbie girl. Ever since I was little. My favourite of the Barbie films was Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses. I had over 30 Barbie dolls which are now lurking in some tub under my bed. Oh, and one Ken. So, it was no surprise that I went…