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Telstra Perth Fashion Festival 2018 (1)
Finally I have a moment to check in about how the Telstra Perth Fashion Festival 2018, it’s going to be brief as Opening Night starts in a few hours. This year marks the 20th year of the festival, a...
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Movie review: Juliet Naked
I must admit to being a recent convert to Ethan Hawke, thanks to his work in Maude. If you haven’t seen that movie you put it at the top of your list. So I approached Juliet Naked with a mixture of...
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Telstra Perth Fashion Festival 2018 Opening Night
So about last night, when a fashion festival was held at a football oval! There was the odd suggestion that after twenty years at the helm, Director Mariella Harvey-Hanrahan had lost it, but people...
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Telstra Perth Fashion Festival 2018 Student Runway
Each year one of the highlights of the Telstra Perth Fashion Festival is the Future Runway that showcases student designs. This year was no exception. Stefan Gosatti TPFF Director Mariella...
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Telstra Perth Fashion Festival: Empire Rose, Rock Star Royalty
The penultimate night of the Telstra Perth Fashion Festival saw The River View Room at Optus Stadium morph into Studio 54. The mirrored DJ stage at the beginning of the runway hinted at the Rock Star...
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Telstra Perth Fashion Festival 2018: Closing night
Eventually all good things come to an end and so it was with the Telstra Perth Fashion Festival. There was an international model, a well known local footballer, uber-stylish audience members indulging...
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Food Review: The Merrywell
With football finals nearly here perhaps you’re looking for somewhere to watch the game. A recent visit to The Merrywell for a quick lunch has us adding it to the list. © The Ponder Room Not being a...
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Movie Review: You Were Never Really Here
We haven’t seen Joaquin Phoenix for a while, so when I saw his name associated with the movie, You Were Never Really Here, I thought this should be interesting. I’m pleased to report I wasn’t wrong....
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Movie Review: Beast
I love a good psychological thriller and Beast certainly fits the bill. It also has the added bonus of my current favourite female actress. Thanks to Anarchy PR Moll (Jessica Buckley) is a young woman...
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Movie Review: American Animals is a must see movie
It’s not often a movie offers up a new way of telling a story, American Animals provides a totally refreshing and rewarding angle to the classic heist movie. It also answers the question about what...
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Palace Raine Square Cinema
Last month saw the return of cinemas to the Perth CBD, and what a return. Palace Raine Square Cinema provides up-to-date facilities in a style reminiscent of old Hollywood glamour, all the ingredients...
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Movie Review: Three Identical Strangers
Imagine being 19 years of age, arriving at university for the first time and having everyone welcome you like a long lost friend. Imagine finding out there’s not one but two people who look exactly...
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Movie Review: BackTrack Boys
BackTrack Boys is a heart-warming documentary that ponders an alternative to incarceration for troubled kids. Set in Armidale, NSW it shows how kids can start to turn their lives around with the help...
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Movie Review: French Exit
When an aging Manhattan heiress realises she’s going to run out of money what’s a girl to do? Answer, move to Paris with her aimless son and cat. What follows is an absurdist comedy movie, French Exit...
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Movie Review: The Last Vermeer
The Last Vermeer is based on the true story of priceless paintings being sold to the Germans during the Second World War. With the war over and the paintings being recovered the question remains,...
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Movie Review: The Courier
With Russia and American on the brink of nuclear war, MI6 and the CIA face an opportunity to receive top secret information from a Russian Soviet officer. But with few operatives on the ground they...
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Movie Review: Collective (Colectiv)
I must admit that when a documentary is billed as “the best ever” the cynic in me thinks it’s probably just market spin. Consequently it was with some reluctance that I started watching Collective...
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Movie Review: Six Minutes To Midnight
Dame Judi Dench, Eddie Izzard, Jim Broadbent, do I need to say anymore? Okay, okay. Think, well behaved St Trinian’s girls school meets Miss Marple, then base the story on true events in Britain, 17...
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WA Reflections Initiative
If your eyes gloss over for a second when you hear the name Iwan Iwanoff, it’s a safe bet that you grew up in Perth in the 1980’s. Sadly several of his iconic homes have been lost to development....
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Movie Review: Twist
Ever wondered what the classic tale of Oliver Twist would look like today? Wonder no more. The latest twist on the classic story has been presented in a movie called … Twist (see what I did there),...
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