Production exploring childhood grief to be crowdfunded
Tuesday, 17 October 2017, 08:59
Last update: about 10 years ago
An original theatre production for children, which tackles how they deal with bereavement, is being crowdfunded for on Maltese platform ZAAR. Devised by local company Studio 18, Dear Pete follows...
Nothing to hide: Kevin Naudi is back
Tuesday, 17 October 2017, 08:52
Last update: about 10 years ago
Following his hilarious debut 'Laughing at the Truth' back in 2015, Maltese stand-up comedy artist Kevin Naudi is back - bigger and bolder, but none the wiser! What started off as an animated...
Animated 'LEAP!' sets a low barre
Monday, 16 October 2017, 10:03
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
An animated "Flashdance" meets "Cinderella," ''LEAP !" isn't so much bad as it is bewildering. The feature about an orphan girl who dreams of dancing professionally is set very vaguely in the 1880s,...
Macklemore gets back to the fun on solo 'Gemini'
Monday, 16 October 2017, 09:58
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
It feels wrong to say Macklemore's latest solo album, "Gemini," is better than "This Unruly Mess I've Made," his 2016 project released alongside longtime collaborator Ryan Lewis. For goodness' sake,...
'Sleeping Beauties' lacks page-turning intensity
Monday, 16 October 2017, 09:55
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
Of all the gifts a father can give his son, near the top must be a co-written novel. After all, slapping the name Stephen King on the cover pretty much guarantees a best-seller. But King fans who...
South Africa revives groundbreaking apartheid-era musical
Sunday, 15 October 2017, 12:20
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
The rise and fall of flamboyant, ferocious Ezekiel Dlamini, a black South African boxer known as "King Kong" who was jailed for murder, inspired a 1959 musical whose black cast performed for...
Review: 'The Florida Project' is an exquisite heartbreaker
Sunday, 15 October 2017, 10:57
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
Not too far from the gates of the Walt Disney World Resort, where families are promised "enchanted escapes" and "fun" and "magic" and where day tickets start at a cool $99 a person, is a discount...
'Lucky' is a love letter to Stanton - and his to us
Saturday, 14 October 2017, 12:17
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
"Harry Dean Stanton Is Lucky," announces the trailer of the new film by John Carroll Lynch. That sentence means more than it sounds. Yes, Stanton, the wonderful actor with that indelible...
Sarah Bailey's 'Dark Lake' has solid character development
Saturday, 14 October 2017, 10:47
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
Some high school memories remain into adulthood, returning to haunt you about the person you used to be - a situation that Detective Sgt. Gemma Woodstock is uncomfortably reminded of in the...