Browsing All Posts By James Murphy
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9Score2024 Adelaide Film Festival Review – The Correspondent
The Correspondent is a 2024 biographical legal thriller directed by Kriv Stenders and written by Peter Duncan. The film stars Richard Roxburgh, Julian Maroun, Rahel Romahn, Yael Stone, and ...
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9ScoreAdelaide Film Festival Review – Homegrown
Homegrown is a 2024 American documentary film directed and produced by Michael Premo. The film follows three right-wing activists during the Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign. Once they become ...
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8ScoreHotter Than Hell at Coopers Alehouse Review
Nestled in the unassuming pub car parks beside Dan Murphy’s in Gepps Cross, the Hotter Than Hell Festival proved that an iconic location isn’t a prerequisite for an ...
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9Score2024 Adelaide Cabaret Festival Review – Between the Covers
In 2017, after 11 cherished years, the ABC’s The Book Club ended, with host Jennifer Byrne saying she’d forgotten what it was like to read for pleasure. Cabaret ...
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8Score2024 Adelaide Cabaret Festival Review – Musical Bang Bang
What began as a monthly improv night in the basement of a 150 year-old hotel nearKings Cross in 2017, has adapted into Musical Bang Bang: a gloriously unscriptedhour ...
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9ScoreBad Boys: Rise or Die Review
The fourth entry into the iconic Will Smith and Martin Lawrence buddy cop comedy series, Bad Boys, slaps hard. Filmed in the shadow of the notorious Oscars incident, ...
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9Score2024 Adelaide Cabaret Festival Review – The Variety Gala
The variety gala started in a hot and sultry manner when the host Virgina Gray came out of a hot tub signalling the perfect way to kick off ...
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9ScoreTina: The Tina Turner Musical at Festival Theatre Review
Biographical retellings of iconic lives, like in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical must inevitably overcome a pair of challenges: can you cast a star who possesses the same ...
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7Score2024 Adelaide Festival Review – The Jungle Book
Akram Khan’s climate dystopian adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book features the majestic choreography that Khan is known for but, for the first time, heavily relies on ...
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9Score2024 Adelaide Festival Review – Angelique Kidjo
In her 63 years on the planet, Angelique Kidjo’s cultural and humanitarian impact is difficult to summarise and to quantify. Five Grammy Awards, a Times Top 100 Most ...