LIVE: BOB GELDOF – Perth, 5 April 2025 Riverside Theatre, Perth, Western Australia Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar Delivering his ‘LIFE – WTF’ show Bob Geldof – troubled child, rock star, activist, humanitarian, orator, fragile human, iconoclast – kept the sold-out Riverside crowd enthralled for around four hours as he trawled his storied life, starting with […]
THEATRE: BIG NAME, NO BLANKETS – Perth, 27 Feb 2025 Regal Theatre, Perth, Western Australia Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar After a musical Welcome to Country by Elder Nan Roma, co-director Anyupa Butcher introduces her father, Sammy Butcher, founding member of The Warumpi Band, whose story this is. And what a story! Three brothers in the […]
PERTH FRINGE WORLD REVIEW: JUMP SISTER JUMP – 10 Feb 2025 The Ellington, Northbridge, Western Australia Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 92% An hour celebrating the enormous legacy of 1950’s jump blues and R&B (REAL R&B, long before autotune and pop charts stole the term) as popularised by immensely important female artists such as Sister Rosetta […]
PERTH FRINGE WORLD REVIEW: SINCERELY, L COHEN – Jonesway Theatre, 7 Feb 2025 Starring Sylvia Cornes with Kirsty Hulka and Jamie Hall The Jonesway Theatre, Perth, Western Australia Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 92% A sublime song requires a sublime voice, and we’re in good hands here with star of the show Sylvia Cornes delivering Leonard […]
FRINGE WORLD FESTIVAL REVIEW: DOWN UNDER: THE SONGS THAT SHAPED AUSTRALIA – 30 Jan 2025 State Theatre Centre Courtyard, Perth, Western Australia Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar Led by singer Michelle Pearson and guitarist/harmonica/singer Brendon Williams this show – formerly known as Mix Tape, now as Down Under: The Songs That Shaped Australia – is an […]
FRINGE WORLD FESTIVAL REVIEW: ROSS NOBLE: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES – 28 Jan 2025 Theatre Royale, Northbridge, Western Australia Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 80% Imagine a carnival – a fair of sorts, like the Royal Show’s Carnival Alley, except this one is an embodiment of Ross Noble’s manic, scatological, cluttered mind. With inflatables in his image […]
FRINGE WORLD FESTIVAL REVIEW: STORIES FROM THE OFFICE OF A SEX DUNGEON – 25 Jan 2025 The Balmoral Hotel, Victoria Park, Perth, Western Australia Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 68% When you take a job as manager of a New York BDSM sex dungeon (albeit one on the sixth story of a respectable office building) to […]
FRINGE WORLD FESTIVAL REVIEW: WILLING PARTICIPANT : ROB CARLTON – 25 Jan 2025 State Theatre Centre, Northbridge, Perth, Western Australia Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 95% Rob Carlton is a Logie Award-winning actor and a masterful raconteur, delivering four engaging human stories from his life over the course of one immensely entertaining hour. It’s not […]
PERTH FRINGE WORLD REVIEW: MRS WALLACE & THE ROYALES – 23 Jan 2025 Lyrics Underground, Maylands, Perth, Western Australia Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 80% When Quentin Tarantino burst onto the movie scene in the early nineties with his violence-drenched, non-linear gangster tales Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction it wasn’t only the stories on the screen […]
PERTH FRINGE WORLD FESTIVAL REVIEW: AWOL 22 Jan 2025 Written by Rob Gee Starring Shane Adamczak & Jon Patterson State Theatre Centre, Northbridge, Western Australia By Shane Pinnegar 80% Subtitled “2 Old Men Escape From A Care Home & Go To A Metal Festival,” AWOL isn’t pulling any punches about that’s about to happen. Canadian […]
PERTH FRINGE WORLD FESTIVAL REVIEW: THE 1940s NATIONAL RESONATOR GUITAR 17 Jan 2025 By Dave Lawrence – The Ambassador Bar, Northbridge, Western Australia By Shane Pinnegar 70% Gifted a beautiful old National Resonator guitar by his mother for his fiftieth birthday led Dave Lawrence – a veteran journeyman alongside Abi Tucker, The Waifs’ Donna Simpson, […]
PERTH FRINGE WORLD FESTIVAL REVIEW: DAN LEES VINYL COUNTDOWN 22 Jan 2025 The Parlour at The Pleasure Garden, Northbridge, Western Australia By Shane Pinnegar 70% You might call Dan Lees a very silly person, but I prefer to think of him as a master of energetic absurdist comedy. This show hangs on the premise that […]
PERTH FRINGE WORLD REVIEW: HOW NOT TO RUN A MUSIC FESTIVAL, 19 Jan 2025 By Tess Birch, The Laugh Resort at The Shoe – Perth, Western Australia Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 75% Tess Birch accidentally ran a boutique music festival a few hours out of Melbourne six times in an eight-year period and the lawyer […]
MOVIE REVIEW: IMAGINARY Directed by Jeff Wadlow Starring DeWanda Wise, Taegan Burns, Pyper Braun Reviewed by Tia Pinnegar 60% Imaginary is a 2024 Blumhouse horror movie about a stepmum who moves her new family into her childhood home, only to find that her stepdaughter has found the imaginary friend – in the shape of a […]
MOVIE REVIEW: THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES Directed by Francis Lawrence Starring Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth, Viola Davis, Peter Dinklage Reviewed by Tia Pinnegar 85% The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes (from here on referred to as TBOSAS) is the fifth movie in the Hunger Games series. This prequel is set […]
THEATRE REVIEW: EVERY BRILLIANT THING Black Swan Theatre, Perth, Western Australia – 25th August, 2021 Written by Duncan MacMillan with Jonny Donahoe Starring Luke Hewitt By Shane Pinnegar We cried true tears last night – equally from laughter, compassion and respect – as we experienced Luke Hewitt performing the one-handed play Every Brilliant Thing in […]
MOVIE REVIEW: BOSS LEVEL Written by Chris & Eddie Borey, Joe Carnahan Directed by Joe Carnahan Starring Frank Grillo, Mel Gibson, Naomi Watts Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 72% Frank Grillo oozes charisma and cool as retired special forces officer Roy Pulver in this assassin-Groundhog Day action-fest. Waking up each day on the exact same day […]
MOVIE REVIEW: KING KONG (2005) Image: Wikimedia Hollywood is going through a phase of revisiting old properties of late. And just as recent years have brought us a reimagined take on an iconic Batman villain in 2019’s Joker, or a deeper look into the Alien franchise in Memory (which was reviewed here), we’re soon to […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Peninsula (2020) Directed by Yeon Sang-ho Starring Gang Dong-won, Lee Jung-hyun, and Lee Re 7/10 Zombies have always had a unique place in modern culture. In fact, the horror sub-genre has established itself well beyond the realm of film and television. Zombie games such as Dying Light have been quite popular over the […]
MOVIE REVIEW: THE BURNT ORANGE HERESY Written by Scott B Smith from Charles Willeford’s novel Directed by Guiseppe Capotondi Starring Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki, Donald Sutherland, Mick Jagger Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 64% Set in the rarified air of the high art world, The Burnt Orange Heresy is an intriguing tale with some hard-to-ignore flaws. […]
