An austere and melancholy tale, Never Let Me Go takes place in a dystopian Britain. Based on a novel of the same name written by Kazuo Ishiguro, and directed by Mark Romanek, the British-made film is set in the recent...
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Pauline Adamek
A refreshing and light-hearted musical – Bran Nue Dae
*** Cheeky, vibrant and fresh – Bran Nue Dae is a nutty and delightful musical set during the late-sixties in the dusty and remote town of Broome, an old pearling port located way up the west coast of Australia...
Geisha House – Tres Ordinaire
*** Okay, I’ll preface this review with the disclaimer that I was taken out to eat at Geisha House by a visiting European travel/food writer and so, mercifully, I did not pay for this meal. A free meal at an...
Elektra at the Getty Villa
*** Press Release: Elektra, one of Sophocles”™ most elegantly structured and emotionally wrenching works, will be the fifth annual outdoor theatrical production in the Getty Villa”™s Barbara and Lawrence...
Laugh-a-minute comedy – The Other Guys
*** Two New York desk-jockey cops start packing heat in this outrageously funny action comedy. Mark Wahlberg plays a disgraced yet hotheaded beat cop, haunted by a high-profile screw-up, while Will Ferrell plays an...