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 […]
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 […]
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 […]