Beginning with a scantily-clad attired man snorting glitter as if it was cocaine, ending with a dance number complete with an over-sized rubber ducky, and featuring knife juggling, a disturbingly aerobic trampoline number, and a game of darts that opts to use sex toys instead in-between, Big Glittery Shit Show is definitely not your parents' variety show! If you're prepared to … [Read more...] about Big Glittery Sh*t Show – Wonderland Festival 2019
Die Hard: The Movie, The Play – Wonderland Festival 2019
Yippee-ki-yay, movie lovers! Having already tested their limited budget constraints and willing audience participation levels on previous film-to-stage "adaptations" Speed: The Movie, The Play and Titanic: The Movie, The Play, Brisbane-based interactive specialist group Act/React bring new life to the classic that is 1988's Die Hard. The immortal, singlet-wearing, bare-footed … [Read more...] about Die Hard: The Movie, The Play – Wonderland Festival 2019
21 Bridges – Film Review
Everything presented in 21 Bridges is suitably fine for the undemanding audience that will likely lap this up (before forgetting about it entirely) but as passable as the ingredients are, there's never enough of them to deem Brian Kirk's cop thriller as a fully rounded product. The plot? Well, it's got some holes to fill. The staple car chases? They're here, just not that … [Read more...] about 21 Bridges – Film Review
Fisherman’s Friends – Film Review
Fisherman's Friends, one of those predictable feel-good true story tales that recounts the type of event better suited to a morning show segment rather than being extended for 112 minutes, ticks so many boxes in terms of what narrative beats to hit that it feels more design-by-committee rather than an organic telling. Given that it is based on a true story though it's … [Read more...] about Fisherman’s Friends – Film Review
The Report – Film Review
A damning account of the CIA's use of enhanced interrogation, i.e. torture techniques, on suspected terrorists following the attacks of September 11th, The Report is an uncompromising film that adopts a documentary-type mentality in order to relay its story as unsensationally as possible. The titular report, dubbed "the torture report", is constantly at the centre of Scott Z. … [Read more...] about The Report – Film Review