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Reading & watching- Belvoir: The Boomkak Panto (Virginia Gay 2021) 27 November 2021Co-directed by the playwright and star Virginia Gay and Richard Carroll, this is a pantomime reimagined by a generation that has no natural affinity for the form and sees it as an odd English thing, alien to Australia, especially the Australia of 2021. I belong to an older generation, and loved the annual panto staged in our town in a huge tent once a year. […]
- The Power of Strangers (Joe Keohane 2021) 26 November 2021Subtitled 'The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World', this was recommended to me because of my 500 People project as recounted on Me Fail? I Fly!
- The Beatles: Get Back (Peter Jackson 2021) 26 November 2021On the strength of the first episode, Peter Jackson has done a brilliant job of making something from the masses of footage taken for what became the film Let It Be.
- Toast (S J Clarkson 2010) 23 November 2021A TV movie based on Nigel Slater's memoir of the same name, this is a diverting coming of age movie set in the 60s, which manages to be strikingly cruel to its only working-class character, played by the famously aristocratic actor Helena Bonham Carter.
- tick, tick ... Boom! (Lin-Manuel Miranda 2021) 21 November 2021A movie musical about a one-night-only Off-Broadway musical about a mucial that failed to get a production. Andrew (Spiderman) Garfield is wonderfully hyper as Jonathan Larsen, who was to create the musical Rent a couple of years after the events of this movie, in which he faces the dreaded prospect of being a failure at 30.
- Belvoir: The Boomkak Panto (Virginia Gay 2021) 27 November 2021
Me fail? I fly! 