Articles by Komi Sellathurai
THE DICTATOR
Critics will tear this film apart. The plot is flimsy, many of the performances two dimensional and ... Read more
I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT
There’s good cheese and then there’s bad cheese. This movie would be a smooth camembert. Nothing surprising ... Read more
GET LOW
Movies don’t get any better than this. The low down on Get Low is that it is ... Read more
CUT
A call to the end of a scene, a snip at the barber’s, slicing of a cake ... Read more
SYDNEY COMEDY FESTIVAL: SCARED WEIRD LITTLE GUYS
After 21 years together, John Chaplin-Fleming and Rusty Berther have had Enough Already. So it seemed only ... Read more
SYDNEY COMEDY FESTIVAL: GREG PROOPS
There are a few television shows I am guilty watching reruns of. Friends, Sex and the City ... Read more
SYDNEY COMEDY FESTIVAL: DANNY BHOY
On a 38-degree summer day in Sydney, Danny Bhoy blew into a slightly stifling Gleebooks like a ... Read more
SYDNEY COMEDY FESTIVAL: BULMERS BEST OF THE EDINBURGH FEST
What do Dylan Moran, Arj Barker, Ross Noble and Stephan Amos have in common? They were all ... Read more
SYDNEY COMEDY FESTIVAL: STEVE HUGHES
Former thrash metal rocker who has been drumming up controversial topics all over Europe the past decade ... Read more
PHOTOGRAPHY & PLACE FILM SERIES
I remember exactly how I felt after watching Australian outback thriller Wake in Fright (1971) starring Donald ... Read more
Arts & Entertainment
Music
DEATH GRIPS - THE MONEY STORE
After attracting a lot of attention for ...
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JULIA HOLTER - EKSTASIS
Swirling sounds of multiple melodies and many ...
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THE BLACK SEEDS - DUST AND DIRT
New Zealand reggae-soul hard hitters The Black ...
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Theatre
STRANGE INTERLUDE
Known as American dramatist Eugene O’Neill’s 1923 ...
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WHEN DAD MARRIED FURY
When your banker dad who has a ...
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REASONS TO BE PRETTY
Reasons To Be Pretty certainly opens with ...
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Events
SYDNEY WRITERS' FESTIVAL: your week sorted with our shortlist
May 14: National Biography Award It’s hard to ...
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THE WRITER'S PLAYROOM: BENITO DI FONZO
Playwright, poet and performer Benito Di Fonzo ...
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WEATHER FESTIVAL
MY 21st birthday party involved a lot ...
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Comedy
BOB DOWNE'S 20 GOLDEN GREATS
Bob Downe is back and with him ...
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THEATRESPORTS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Leave the maroon and blues at home ...
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TOMMY DEAN
It’s hard to forget this United States-bred, ...
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Books
THE PRIVATE, THE PUBLIC, AND THE LINE IN BETWEEN
You know that old line, ‘whoever invokes ...
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BEHIND THE LINES
Published in newspapers, journals and online, cartoons ...
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AN EVENING WITH RICHARD DAWKINS
Richard Dawkins is not one to shy ...
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Exhibitions
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA
While Harry Potter die-hards may still be ...
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HUNTERS HILL ART EXHIBITION
Hunters Hill, the little suburb that could. ...
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EXPOSED
It’s fitting that the Latin root for ...
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Movies
DARK SHADOWS
Every yahoo off the street knows you ...
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THE DICTATOR
Critics will tear this film apart. The ...
Read moreSYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL: INFINITE STORIES
When you’re faced with a film festival ...
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