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Richard Curtis can no doubt add Yesterday to his impressive list of screenplays that have touched a huge nerve with audiences. No matter how irritating some might find the saccharine sentimentality of Love, Actually or the upper-class indulgences in Four Weddings and a Funeral, the movies are watched over and over, year in, year out. In Yesterday, (co-credited
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By Anders Furze
Peak TV means that while some shows hog all the attention, a lot of excellent work is flying under the radar. Anders Furze nominates eight interesting series that you might have missed, and that you can stream right now. * The Bureau Think: The Americans, House of Cards, John le Carré Spy series The Bureau
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Wax Trax Records was a record label based in Chicago that was so cool that they said no to the demos that would become Nine Inch Nails’ first album, Pretty Hate Machine, in 1989. Wax Trax Records was founded by partners in life and business, Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher. Arguably, few people outside of the gothic and
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The rhythm of the times is always changing. One minute, it’s a heartbeat away from nuclear oblivion, the next it’s the folding of the Vietnam War, another it’s planes flying into skyscrapers in an azure New York sky. One minute it’s 1975, another it’s 2019. Time is a jetplane, it moves too fast. It’s now.
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The Brits are renowned for serving up small but emotionally satisfying films, and Wild Rose sits comfortably in the category. There’s an anti-heroine at its centre who, despite her many flaws, you can’t help rooting for. You also want to tell her to wake up to herself and stop being so frustratingly self-destructive. The woman
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By Anders Furze
Palestinian director Muayad Alayan’s stressful second feature, The Reports on Sarah & Saleem, establishes its central conceit instantly. The film opens on a man counting money and doing paperwork at his small kitchen table. Before we know it there’s a forceful knock at the door and he’s being violently arrested by Israeli security forces. We
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All of us remember Disney’s classic 1992 animated movie Aladdin, about the genie-summoning pauper who pretends to be a prince and the yearning princess who is an emblem for the outdated notion that a woman’s life and purpose can be made complete by a man. And all of us, of course, remember that famous scene
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The idea of a finale is antithetical to the very construct of a TV show. Unlike some other forms of storytelling, TV shows are designed to be able to rumble on week after week, year after year, for as long as the network needs them to go on for. Historically, they were made to be
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Game of Thrones is undoubtedly the biggest show in the world. And this week it is also undoubtedly the most controversial. Daenerys Targaryen’s decision to ignore the surrender of King’s Landing and instead go on a brutal rampage of destruction with her dragon has ignited the show’s fan base. Waves of hate mail have been
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Jo Caust is Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), University of Melbourne Labor launched its arts policy in Melbourne on Saturday. The new policy document is called “Renewing Creative Australia”, paying homage to Labor’s two previous cultural policy documents; “Creative Nation” in 1994 and “Creative Australia” in 2013. The policy includes a commitment to restore funding
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