Arts and Entertainment Archive

The controversial and explosively popular 50 Shades of Grey trilogy by E L James is topping book charts in Australia and around the world. The saucy novel is the fastest selling paperback of all time in UK history outstripping Dan Brown’s The …

Richard Ford’s Canada is narrated by the now 66-year-old Dell, who describes events that occurred in 1960 when he was a cerebral 15-year-old and his life was catapulted from the ordinary to the extraordinary by the uncharacteristic and startlingly naive bank robbery …

Eat your heart out, The Amazing Race contestants. I trekked across Sydney by ferry, water taxi, bus and foot, visiting four spectacular venues in just one day for the 18th Biennale of Sydney. I braved the miserable winter winds and a swarm …

It was a comedy of errors at Sydney Supanova pop culture expo this weekend, as the Madman entertainment ‘Cosplay’ championships suffered a number of technical difficulties, writes Michael Scattergood. Short for ‘Costume Play’, the Madman Cosplay championships have become a pop culture …

This somewhat unconventional musical offers catchy tunes, quirky jokes and brilliant choreography. Director Gavin Leahy’s adaption of Pippin sheds light on the life of Pippin, son of medieval emperor Charlemagne around the 800s, as he searches for his place in the world. …

Ex-boyfriends of Emma Pask beware. Her favourite party trick at shows is to publicly condemn her “doozy” exes. Whenever she performs at jazz venue 505 in Sydney’s Surry Hills, Pask stirs the sleepy club from its slumbers with her sheer effervescence and …

When Brazilian film maker Kleber Mendonca Filho started filming the middle class street he lives in, he could not have imagined his first feature film would bring so much international acclaim. Now at the Sydney Film Festival, Neighbouring Sounds has already been …

What a night of rich juxtapositions. A new venue; a colonial celebration; a first rate ballet company; second rate speeches; all the glamour of opening night; the cringe-worthy embarrassment of a ranting monarchist; and an English company made up of Cuban, Brazilian, …

The paparazzi went wild when the Mabo family descended on the State Theatre last Thursday June 7 for the Sydney Film Festival premiere of the film Mabo, directed by Rachel Perkins.  Centre stage was Eddie Mabo’s widow, Bonita Mabo, surrounded by a …

As I watched the film Mabo at its premiere at the Sydney Film Festival on Thursday June 7, I felt both ashamed and proud. Ashamed at how white Australians had treated the Aboriginal people after expropriating their land and claiming it was …