Arts and Entertainment Archive

  The success of the Twilight saga has seen the resurgence of vampires in popular culture. These vampires are sparkly and whiny one-dimensional creatures gushed over by tween fans. Eclectic director Jim Jarmusch has taken the liberty of revamping the image of …

Steve McQueen’s third feature 12 Years A Slave is uncomfortable but unmissable viewing. The film follows the harrowing true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man from New York who was abducted and sold into slavery in the Deep South. Northup is shackled and stripped …

In 2013, his first year out of NIDA, Harry Greenwood, 24, made his theatre debut as an angry teenager in the Sydney Theatre Company’s Fury and starred in the short film, The Gift, which premiered at the Palm Springs International ShortFest. His …

FLiCKERFEST’S Short Documentary category will now be eligible for Oscar accreditation as it joins the already Academy® Accredited Best International Short Film, Best Short Animation and Best Australian Short categories. Recipients of the festival’s prizes in the above categories will qualify for …

Treat yourself — that’s the motto of Sydney’s Donny Benét. This year’s Sydney Festival has done just that and has suggested that we all do the same by getting down to the Spiegeltent to kick-start our weekends this January. Donny Benét is …

  Daniel Boyd and electro duo Canyons are collaborating at the Sydney Festival with 100 Million Nights. The first sign that Daniel Boyd is an artist is his sneakers, which are a Pollock-like palette of splattered paint. Looking down at his shoes, …

A crowd of more than 50,000 fans showed up to Bon Jovi’s sold out Because We Can tour at Sydney’s ANZ Stadium last Saturday night. Their set list comprised over two hours of powerhouse ballads and blue-collar rock hits that catered to all audiences, …

To say Emma Pask has had a busy year is somewhat of an understatement: the 36-year-old scatted her way on to season 2 of The Voice Australia; made a very special friend in none other than Ricky Martin; was signed to Universal Music; …

Conceptual art divides people as fiercely and clearly as it divided the Old from the New early in the 20th  Century. Art that can be an idea, or a mere instruction or a thought – often independent of a material resolution or …

My six-hour journey to this year’s Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues is punctuated only by roadkill and the land itself, burnished and charred by bushfire. The trees lie out eerily by the roadside, black and skeletal, topped by amber leaves. After …