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Captain America: Civil War Review

A marvellously produced film that tops and defines this generation’s popular genre. The emergence of superhero films is without doubt one of the most celebrated new sub-genre in the past decade, and as far as it goes the Disney-Marvel studio…

A Man Walks Into a Bar – Review

On Thursday night, my girlfriend and I attended the opening night of David Geary’s internationally acclaimed  absurdist comedy ‘A Man Walks Into a Bar’. Showing at the ‘Blood Moon Theatre’ at World Bar in Sydney, it was refreshing to actually…

Josh Groban Concert Review

Josh Groban fans, musical theatre buffs and, dare I venture, women and gay men in general will be thrilled with the new concert series Stages, An Evening With Josh Groban, currently showing at Sydney Opera House. The American singer shines…

The Jungle Book Review

A film without many special merits, yet has very little faults. One can always grade re-adaptations into three categories from worst to best – that which is unable to meet the standard of the original, that which is merely a…

Sydney Comedy Festival Guide – Top 13

Festivals are anything but a rare sight in cities like ours. But amazing are the nights when festivals are lit up with laughter and giggles. Comedy is the most widely anticipated and welcomed genre of performing arts. People have great…

Huntsman: Winter’s War Review

A grand gesture to appeal to fans of fairytales, not quite enough for anyone else. No one really wanted a sequel to the 2012 critical failure Snow White and the Huntsman, but we got one anyway. This time star Kristen…

Allegiant Review

A film so bland and conventional its existence can no longer be justified like its predecessors. In the world of young adult fiction, each franchise capable of producing multiple sequels often possess its own unique brand of beauty to be…

Beauty Itself: Swan Lake

If beauty could be distilled and encapsulated in one image, it would surely be the vision in white of the corps de ballet in symmetrical formation at any moment of Act II in a traditional staging of Swan Lake. The…

Pendolino Wine Dinner: Gambero Rosso – Tre Bicchieri

The Sydney instalment of the Tre Bicchieri World Tour concluded with a scrumptious dinner at the restaurant Pendolino. The dinner came after a long afternoon of wine tastings and a masterclass lead by Eleonora Guerini, the editor of Gambero Rosso’s…

The Week’s Chose a Faire

We’ve only just jumped into April, and already there’s more on our calendar for the month than we can count. We’ll start the most of with a few of our favorites we’ll be heading to over the week. Meanwhile, keep…