In Christian Petzold’s superbly deft drama, a fugitive steals someone else’s identity with deeply disturbing results By Peter Bradshaw Christian Petzold is the film-maker renowned as a modern master of suspense and a poet of Germany’s divided self. Of his recent work, I loved his Stasi thriller Barbara (2012) but […]
With Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt playing a TV actor and stuntman who cross paths with the Manson cult, Tarantino has created outrageous, disorienting entertainment By Peter Bradshaw Quentin Tarantino’s exploitation black-comedy thriller Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood finds a pulp-fictionally redemptive take on the Manson nightmare in […]
Top 25 Albums So Far, 2019 Mid-Year Report By Consequence of Sound staff Half of 2019 is nearly in the bank, and one word screams out to me above all others: breakthrough. In some cases, that can mean a young artist living up to all the hype heaped on them […]
The following was originally written in 2017 for the City Hill Supporters Group prior to the Coffs Harbour City Council deciding to focus on Gordon Street for a cultural center in spite of City Hill having being gifted to the city by the government for a cultural center. Given recent […]
The story of how Allen Ginsberg, Joan Baez, and others fell under Dylan’s dancing spell The Pitch: Martin Scorsese’s second Bob Dylan documentary, Rolling Thunder Revue, picks up nearly 10 years after the conclusion of his first, No Direction Home. That first six-hour opus focuses on Dylan’s rapid cultural rise […]
The following was originally written in 2017 for the City Hill Supporters Group prior to the Coffs Harbour City Council deciding to focus on Gordon Street for a cultural center in spite of City Hill having being gifted to the city by the government for a cultural center. Given recent […]
Elton John has announced he will visit Coffs Harbour as part of his Farewell Tour in February 2020. The concert will be held at the Coffs International Stadium. “I still can’t believe it. I was almost speechless when I heard,” Coffs Harbour Mayor Councillor Denise Knight said. “Elton John – […]
If there’s one thing we know about Bruce Springsteen, it is that he likes, nay needs, to keep control. So this is his take on what is his most radical and arguably his best album for some time: “This record is a return to my solo recordings featuring character-driven songs and […]
13 years later, David Milch’s Western series finally gets its proper finale. By Andrew Bloom The Pitch: It’s 1889, and South Dakota is soon to become the nation’s newest state. With that, the onetime hardscrabble camp of prospectors and cutthroats in Deadwood is being ushered into the future, grumbling but […]
This award-winning film will be screened across the north coast over the next two weeks. “Many people saw the film Gaslands and this spear-headed the movement against fracking.P eople power in the Northern Rivers region rejected this destructive activity and energy source. This film is to forests, what Gaslands was […]