Author: OutInCanberra

The film that has Australian audiences laughing, crying and throwing plastic spoons at cinema screens arrives to Dendy Canberra! Described as ‘the Citizen Kane of bad movies’ and ‘the modern day Rocky Horror,’ the cult phenomenon The Room begins with limited screenings from Friday 20 August 2010.

Written, directed, produced by and starring Tommy Wiseau, The Room is unlike anything you have seen before. Originally billed as ‘a film with the passion of Tennessee Williams’ the story centres on a love-triangle that takes melodrama to new limits.

Could there be a more hot-button topic than terrorism these days? Although it is historically the subject of serious documentaries and intense dramatic films, renowned British comedian and provocateur Chris Morris (The Day Today, Brass Eye) finds the humour (and ultimately the humanity) in this extremist world.

New performance collective Autumnal are returning home to present their new dance work, Exciting a Blush.

Five individuals intersect in moments of heightened self-awareness where bodies can betray their keepers by unintentionally broadcasting internal emotions. Examining what we think of what others think of us, why we care, and why on earth that should affect the capillaries in our cheeks, Exciting a
Blush explores the physiology and psychology behind the most peculiar of human expressions, the blush.