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 […]
According to a recent press release: “NESDAM (real name: Patrick Madsen, former drummer of the band Random Hero) is a man on a mission. Though he’s been making music as a drummer under other band names for well over a decade now, his debut solo album Find the Truth is out to set the record straight: he’s still only getting […]
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 […]
EQUIPMENT REVIEW: NANOLEAF 4D & SATECHI 2 in 1 HEADPHONE STAND & WIRELESS CHARGER Reviewed by Tia & Shane Pinnegar The Nanoleaf 4D Screen Mirror & Lightstrip kit takes movie watching or gaming in your own space to a next level of immersion. A 4D camera cleverly monitors your screen, and the lightstrip illuminates the […]
INSTRUMENT REVIEW: CASIO CT-S1000V KEYBOARD By Shane Pinnegar 86% Things have come a long, long way since Casio launch their first electronic keyboard in 1979/80, and proto-players around the world noodled away to the automatic “doodoo-cha-cha doodoo-cha-cha” tinny backing rhythms. Their new CT-S1000V is practically a symphony orchestra compared to those early devices, but is […]
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. […]
MOVIE REVIEW: THE KING Written by Joel Edgerton, David Michôd Directed by David Michôd Starring Timothée Chalamet, Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris, Robert Pattinson Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 86% Set in the early fifteenth century, The King draws from a combination of accepted history, Billy Shakespeare’s plays, and modern dramatic licence to concoct a […]
MOVIE REVIEW: JUDY Directed by Rupert Goold Written by Tom Edge, based on the play End Of The Rainbow by Peter Quilter Starring Renée Zellweger, Jessie Buckley, Rufus Sewell, Finn Wittrock, Michael Gambon Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 80% Six months before her tragic death aged only 47, faded child star Judy Garland is almost unhirable […]
MOVIE REVIEW: AD ASTRA Written by James Gray, Ethan Gross Directed by James Gray Starring Brad Pitt, Tommy lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, Liv Tyler Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 80% If ever a film was desperately crying out for future cult status, it’s Ad Astra. My apologies, but there are a few minor spoilers ahead. Director […]
MOVIE REVIEW: MEMORY – THE ORGINS OF ALIEN (Screening as part of Revelation Film Festival) Directed by Alexandre O Philippe Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 77% If ever a film deserved a deep analysis of its roots, it is Ridley Scott’s Alien, released in 1979. Written by Dan O’Bannon, the story of a relentless alien creature […]
MOVIE REVIEW: THE GREAT BUSTER (Screening as part of Revelation Film Festival) Written & directed by Peter Bogdanovich Starring Peter Bogdanovich, Buster Keaton Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 100% I have to admit that I cannot recall ever watching a full Buster Keaton movie. For the record, yes, I am suitably ashamed and will endeavour to […]
MOVIE REVIEW: TUMBBAD (Screening as part of Revelation Film Festival) Directed by Rahi Anil Barve with Creative Director Anand Gandhi & co-director Adesh Prasad Written by Mitesh Shah, Adesh Prasad, Rahi Anil Barve & Anand Gandhi Starring Sohum Shah, Jyoti Malshe, Anita Date, Ronjini Chakraborty, Deepak Damle Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 84% Imagine a God […]
BLURAY: THE INVISIBLE MAN’S REVENGE Shock Entertainment, September 2018 Written by Bertram Millhauser & H G Wells Directed by Ford Beebe Starring Jon Hall, John Carradine, Leon Errol Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 52% Filmed eleven years after Claude Raines’ excellent 1933 turn on The Invisible Man, this one fails dismally to live up to the […]
BLURAY: LIFE Shock Entertainment, September 2018 Written by Robert Ramsey & Matthew Stone Directed by Ted Demme Starring Eddie Murphy & Martin Lawrence Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 67% Eddie Murphy’s main problem is self-indulgence – as evidenced by the likes of Norbit and the Dr Doolittle and Nutty Professor films, which never came close to […]
