This movie was the last of the Best Picture nominees I got a chance to look at. I was initially hesitant to seek this one out primarily because of Day-Lewis' performance in Gangs of New York. While I admired that performance it was completely at odds with everything I remembered ...

Michael Clayton is the second Best Picture Academy Award nominated film for 2008 we'll be looking at before the night in question. And no, it's not about American Football (or 'Football' as the Americans like to call it), but rather a legal drama in which we see George Clooney, Tom ...

Remember Knocked Up? Geek meets girl. Geek sleeps with girl. Out pops baby. Well, Juno is more of the same... except all the parent's to be are highschoolers. Usually, I wouldn't be interested by something as mundane and Oprahesque as a drama comedy about unplanned teenage pregnancy. However, Jason Reitman's ...

Directed by Steve de la ZilwaWritten by Peter ShafferStarring Tracy Holsinger, Shanaka Amarasinghe, Subha Wijesiriwardena, Hiran Abeysekara, Ranmali Mirchandani, Shannon Raymond & Janice De ZoysaMore information on this play can be found at the Homepage and Wikipedia. Well, I'll jump right to it, I've always considered Equus to be rather dull ...

The souvenir for this production was packed with references to past glories, and I'm sure many would think that past achievements mean something... that if a person (or group of people) has a history of producing good work then any work produced by them is good (regardless of the actual ...

The Interview by David Mamet Directed by Feroz Kamardeen Produced by Amrik Wilson Starring Jithendra Seneviratne & Sashane Perera Part of the fourth and final installment of the Noir Theater Festival, by StageLight&MagicA lawyer and his interogator sitting in hell. Sounds fairly plausible. According to the SL&M website: Interview is an oblique, mystifying interrogation. A ...

I left the theater with an unusual revulsion of the female sex, which I attribute to Niluka Silva's apathetic, wooden and unpalatable performance in The Other Side. When considering her for her next role I recommend that a monkey of some description be used for comparison. An untrained chimpanzee hurling ...

I've wanted to see a play by David Mamet for quite a while now. I've heard that they can be disturbing and thought-provoking and I wanted to see for myself. This play was those things... it was multi-layered, scary and deeply disturbing. I could see quite clearly the devious mind ...