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ANTENNA DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
By Mark Morellini Australia’s international documentary film festival returns for its eighth edition, presenting 38 stimulating feature-length films and 10 shorts from 23 countries. Australia is prominent with a selection of 16 films. Each year this festival grows in popularity, evident from the new partnership Antenna has established with Dendy Newtown, which means that documentary […]
The Wharf Revue 2017 – The Patriotic Rag
Sydney Theatre Company’s Wharf Revue has rolled around again with a plentiful supply of satirical humour based on the year’s political events at home and abroad. First-timer Blazey Best brings her brand of craziness to this year’s comic confection titled, The Patriotic Rag. Blazey was tailor-made for the female roles in this production, if only on […]
NAKED CITY: THE SNOWLESS WINTER OLYMPICS
For many people around the world the most lingering image of the recent Sochi Winter Olympics was the vision of Pussy Riot group members being brutally whipped and assaulted by a posse of Russian Cossacks. Rumour has it that many in less enlightened countries mistook this for an officially sanctioned Olympic sport and wondered […]
THE NAKED CITY – FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE?
Australia’s range of sanctions against Russia over their invasion of Ukraine is unlikely to cause the aggressor any great pain, but they are an important show of solidarity with other worldwide democracies. Since the post-war period our relationship with Russia has always been a curious one, especially when they expanded into the behemoth that was […]