Author: Charlie Lancaster

Yussef Dayes was unparalleled at the Sydney Opera House. That might have been the problem.

While it’s true that A24 is prevailing in the indie scene right now, it’s not a typical media hegemony story.

The Italians is both grounded and surreal in presenting the Italo-Australian Sydney diaspora.

From union hymns to neoconservatism, country’s political history is turbulent but profound.

Peele says “Nope” to white commandeering of African American stories, to exploiting trauma, to growing complacent with our power over nature.

This is two hours of emotionally intimate theatre, capturing the joys and sorrows of family life.

Charlie Lancaster goes to the movies.