Arts and Entertainment Archive

  Hang on to your seat, clap on your 3D glasses and prepare to be bored silly by this mega budget sci-fi from director Guillermo del Toro. Pacific Rim stars Charlie Hunnam as Raleigh and Rinko Kikuchi as Mako Mori, two robot pilots who …

Imagine you are on a boat with some people for several weeks on the endless ocean. The destination is a magic and strange land but for you and your shipmates, this is a one-way journey with no turning back. The boat is …

Australian voters are sick of slogans, political spin and lack of substantive issue-based debate. So The Hansard Monologues: A Matter of Public Importance couldn’t have chosen a more appropriate time to premiere its people-friendly political clarion call. Now more than ever, in …

I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve been to the Imax theatre but I made the effort to see the new Superman movie Man of Steel there and I was not sorry. The 3D effects, especially in the first …

It took me three attempts to actually find the new Bill Henson exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. This has nothing to do with the AGNSW’s signage or the directions I was given by their ever-helpful staff. It’s not …

The current major exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales is Sydney Moderns. It has the subtitle Art for a New World, and the pictures shown – over 180 works by many of Australia’s most significant artists of the 1920s …

Arctic Monkeys lit up Glastonbury Festival 2013 on Friday with a performance that proved to be the highlight of the weekend. Six years on from their first appearance at the legendary festival they made their return to the Pyramid Stage at 11pm, …

Seth Rogen’s vivid imagination sucks in the viewer, transporting him to Los Angeles, once a bejewelled city, now metamorphosed into one big hell of fire, cannibals and insanity as the Almighty grasps the Universe in His hands to end it all. Jesus! …

This year’s Vivid festival again brought Sydney alive with art. We had Kraftwerk and the parti-coloured Opera House; we had Wagner-a-la-multimedia and Johnny Cupcakes. But one of the most striking and jaw-dropping works presented under the Vivid umbrella was ‘test pattern ’, …

If you’re wondering where wandering songstress Miriam Waks has been for the past year and a half, the answer is anywhere but here. Deeply frustrated and consumed with an overwhelming desire to “feel alive”, she has been off meditating in India, tangoing …