Category: Review

Handsome Devil director John Butler, brings us the tale of a music-mad 16-year-old outcast at a rugby-mad boarding school who forms an unlikely friendship in this Irish coming-of-age tale. What was the inspiration behind the film? I went to a fee-paying, rugby playing all-boys school and found it… tricky. I was gay, and I loved […]

Rice is all about the struggle. Heavy, belaboured movements that are punctuated with audible breaths and stomps play a large role in the 70-minute dance about the life cycle of rice. In a sense, the dance is a tribute to the farmers who do the backbreaking work to produce the staple of a Chinese diet, […]

In Nina George’s Little Paris Bookshop, a French bookseller believes “ a book is both medic and medicine at once, diagnosing as well as offering therapy.”  On that metaphor, listening to the 20+ writers featured in the 2017 samesame but different queer writing festival was definitely a diagnosing – and therapeutic—experience.  In his welcome to […]

Riley Keough and Jena Malone star in So Yong Kim’s delicate heartbreaker, Lovesong. The duo play best friends who are unable to verbally express their true love for one another. And we’re not just talking about any kind of love here, it’s a hot deep-rooted ‘I want to rip your clothes of’ kind of love. […]

Last night Mariah Carey performed in NZ for the first time, bringing here Elusive Chanteuse Show to a Vector Arena filled with hungry fans (lambs) and whipping up a vocal storm that lived up to her legendary status! express decided to give Carey opening act Titanium a miss and instead opt for a fabulous dinner […]