feels alienated, put upon and depressed because his upcoming birthday party has been overshadowed by that of a hipper kid.
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DRAWING LADIES This Wednesday Dr Sketchy’s Burlesque Life Drawing unleashes a Pandaora’s box of seasonal sultriness with a tribute to all things Tim Burton in their Nightmare Before Xmas. With MC Mae Wilde, and burlesque performers Miss Tahnee and Pent Upglamour. It all begins at 6.30pm. This will put a bit of lead in your pencil so bring some paper, and BTW, you need to be over 18. $15.
Gaia Madonna 76 x 91.5 cm. Oil on Canvas. http://turiyabruce.com
LONEY M ‘M’ Paintings, Prints and Assemblages by Turiya Bruce is currently on show at the Lone Goat Gallery, Byron Bay until 23 December. This mixed-media exhibition by Turiya Bruce explores the power of the feminine through symbolic icons translated into a series portraits – the Gaia Madonnas. Also included are varying assemblages, and prints, all themed to highlight, remind, and celebrate our responsibility of stewardship towards all planetary life.
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There are some stunning visual effects in Ridley Scott’s latest blockbuster/ bumbreaker, but perhaps the most impressive of all is how, as Moses, Christian Bale manages to morph into Charlton Heston, albeit with a whispered and barely intelligible enunciation. The casting in general is shonky in the extreme – John Turturro as King Seti flounces around like a haberdasher in after-hours drag; Aaron Paul from Breaking Bad, in the part of Joshua, is in a state of constant bewilderment and looking like he needs a hit of meth (I half expected him at any minute to address Moses as Mister White); Joel Edgerton’s surly sulking Ramses the Great is a kind of nasty Maximus in eye makeup and Ben Mendelsohn plays Hegep, one of Ramses’s officials, with high-camp silliness. Unlike in Scott’s mighty Gladiator, where we were led down a storyline unknown to us, with an ending never blatantly flagged, this movie has absolutely nothing happening of which we’ve not already been informed. There’s the burning bush, the plagues of Egypt, the parting of the Red Sea – enough already, I groaned inwardly. To perhaps lift that dead weight of over-familiarity, Scott has come up with the quirky if not terribly kosher idea of having God personified by a repulsive little boy who is forever demanding more of Moses and who ultimately exercises his spiteful wrath by inflicting upon the people of Egypt the mass slaughter of innocent children that is commemorated in the observance of the Passover. Despite the title, there is no interest shown in the fascinating deities and highly ritualised religious practices of ancient Egypt, but the scene where rampaging crocodiles go on a bloody feeding frenzy in the Nile, leaping bodily out of the river to clutch
only hours before he is due to be crowned Duke at the junior prom. Watching it all unfold is baby Trevor, who eats green ink.
All of the threads of the story are To make matters worse, he neatly and logically entwined, fishermen in their ferocious jaws, is is also suffering from a crush the edit bounces along at a rate a ripper – in fact I was at the point of on the unobtainable Becky that avoids flat periods and the nodding off before it happened. The (Sidney Fullmer). His wish to be morality – of getting back up art direction is seductive, with plenty understood comes true when when you are knocked down – of thrilling aerial shots, but you could everybody else in the household is inoffensively hopeful. It’s no probably think of more beneficial ways is plunged into utter chaos. stretch for Carell, but Garner is to spend $140 million. Unemployed Dad (Steve Carell) wonderful, while the youthful has a job opportunity put at support cast, including Bella stake, Mom (Jennifer Garner) Thorne as Celia, Anthony’s dropsees her publishing project in a dead gorgeous prom date, are shambles, Emily (Kerris Dorsey), immensely personable. I liked about to make her stage debut If you think that Team Oz is doing it it heaps, and the closing scene, in the school play, is stricken tough under the stewardship of the involving an INXS number and a with the flu and Anthony (Dylan fork-tongued knuckle-dragger and trio of raunchy Aussie drovers, is Minette) blows his driving test his mob of reptilian droogs, spare a hoot. a thought for the Coopers and the calamities that befall them on an otherwise clear and sunny California TUESDAY 9 DEC day. This is one of those Disney family to WE DNESDAY movies that are so easy to mock but so 17 DEC MOVIE CLUB PRICES Adult $12.00 / Golden Club $8.50 difficult to not enjoy. It is neither more nor less than what it presents itself as – HE’S ONE HELL OF harmless but pithy in its observations, A ROLE MODEL... funny without being uproarious (though I did have a couple of laughout-loud moments), and smart enough to credit its audience, young and old, with at least a modicum of intelligence. TWO SHOWS Twelve-year-old Alexander (the ONLY! endearing Australian, Ed Oxenbould)
ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE … DAY
SAT 13 & WED 16!
PREVIEWS 12-14 DEC
NT LIVE: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (CTC) (No Free Tix) Sat 13: 1:00pm Wed 16: 12:30pm STUDIO GHIBLI SHOWCASE (All No Free Tix) TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA (PG) - Tue 9, Wed 10: 4:00pm GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES (M) Tue 9: 6:30pm MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO (G) - Wed 10: 6:30pm ST VINCENT (M) (No Free Tix) PREVIEWS Fri 12-Sun 14: 4:40pm
OPENS THU 11!
ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE… (PG) Tue 9, Wed 10: 9:15, 11:00am, 7:00pm Thu 11, Mon 15, Tue 16: 9:30, 4:50, 6:40pm Fri 12, Sun 14: 9:10am, 4:50, 6:40pm Sat 13: 9:10, 11:00am, 6:40pm Wed 17: 9:00, 4:50, 6:40pm NIGHTCRAWLER (MA15+) Tue 9, Wed 10: 11:20am, 4:35, 8:15pm Thu 11, Mon 15, Tue 16: 4:35pm
PADDINGTON (G) (No Free Tix) Thu 11, Mon 15, Tue 16: 9:00, 4:30pm Fri 12-Sun 14: 9:25, 4:30pm Wed 17: 10:45, 4:40pm
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 1 (M) Tue 9, Wed 10: 1:50, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15pm Thu 11, Fri 12, Sun 14-Tue 16: 11:20, 6:30, 9:00pm Sat 13, Wed 17: 11:10am, 6:30, 9:00pm
HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 (MA15+) (No Free Tickets) Thu 11, Fri 12, Sun 14-Tue 16: 11:00, 2:15, 7:00, 9:15pm Sat 13: 11:55, 2:15, 7:35, 9:35pm Wed 17: 11:55, 2:15, 7:10, 9:15pm
MY OLD LADY (M) Tue 9, Wed 10: 9:05am Thu 11, Fri 12, Sun 14-Tue 16: 9:10am. Wed 17: 9:00am INTERSTELLAR (M) Tue 9, Wed 10: 12:45pm Thu 11, Fri 12, Sun 14-Tue 16: 1:15pm Sat 13: 4:30pm Wed 17: 4:00pm
2D EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS (M) (No Free Tix) Tue 9, Wed 10: 11:05, 1:45, 8:50 Thu 11, Fri 12, Sun 14-Tue 16: 11:20, 1:50, 8:30pm Sat 13, Wed 18: 9:00, 1:40, 8:30pm
LIVING IS EASY (WITH EYES CLOSED) (M) Tue 9, Wed 10: 9:00am
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