There is the famous quote from American writer Harper Lee’s classic novel TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD said by the lawyer Atticus Finch to his daughter Scout, explaining in order to understand another human being, ‘you’ve got to get to …
We are invited to bear witness to an age-old story — and embedded within it is a tale of storytelling itself, of culture from the world’s oldest living continuous tradition, so profoundly challenged in the early days of colonial invasion. …
Above pic : John Harkins Photo credit Cary Bennett
John Harkins, Jacob Graham, Andrew Dickeson, Warwick Alder on the Sydney Road Stage… Photo credit Caroline Speight
In 1978 I attended the very first Manly Jazz Carnival, and am surprised I’ve …
RUINS is the story of an Australian-Lebanese women’s return to her ancestral home in current time. It is also the story of her Australian-Lebanese father’s visit in 1982 when the city was bombed by Israel. Let’s start at the beginning. …
Loosely inspired by author Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland, the film uncoils as a family saga about former revolutionaries on the run from a terrifyingly eccentric white supremacist.
Its opening plunges into the guerrilla exploits of Bob Ferguson (Leonardo DiCaprio) and …
Gender, identity, conflict, oppression, expression, the workplace, the queer niteclub, K-Pop, Asian drama, life drama, domesticity, marriage, ambition, cooking, love, lust, political correctness, happiness, angst, binary, non-binary, fear and nonchalance.
These ingredients of our modern or post-modern, apparently comfortable global …