Caliban’s Rebellion is a dramatic adaptation of a work of Shakespeare in typical CenterStage Productions’ style. Drawing on The Tempest for inspiration Caliban’s Rebellion attempts to paint Caliban in a more forgiving light and give a slightly different view from the traditional interpretation. So, you may be wondering… is it any good?
That depends…
In the beginning…
…was [...]
This movie was the last of the Best Picture nominees I got a chance to look at. I was initially hesitant to seek this one out primarily because of Day-Lewis’ performance in Gangs of New York. While I admired that performance it was completely at odds with everything I remembered from his past. It also [...]
Michael Clayton is the second Best Picture Academy Award nominated film for 2008 we’ll be looking at before the night in question. And no, it’s not about American Football (or ‘Football’ as the Americans like to call it), but rather a legal drama in which we see George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson and Tilda Swinton give [...]
Remember Knocked Up? Geek meets girl. Geek sleeps with girl. Out pops baby. Well, Juno is more of the same… except all the parent’s to be are highschoolers. Usually, I wouldn’t be interested by something as mundane and Oprahesque as a drama comedy about unplanned teenage pregnancy. However, Jason Reitman’s directing and Ellen Page’s quirky [...]
Fellow reviewer Dan Rutter of Dan’s Data.com and How to Spot a Psychopath has got himself into a spot of “legal” trouble over his articles on the (currently) Australian-based Firepower International. The latest tiff is over whether or not Dan has the right to link to, and/or distribute the brochure given to him by Firepower [...]
What do you get when you mix a gangly Jamaicanesque hunter, a pack of rabid parasitoids and an average small American town? You get a pointless butchering of two Science Fiction franchise icons with assorted plot-holes and miss-steps. Imagine Britney Spear’s comeback performance at the VMA’s, but with acid-spitting Aliens, Yanks and a gender confused [...]
Christmas Inc., The Musical was the debut production for the Johnpillai and Friends Theater Group, or Freshly Brewed Theater as they would like to be known. It ranks, in its own quirky way, amongst the most convoluted, confusing and downright nonsensical piece of theater I’ve ever witnessed. And, just in case you thought I was [...]