The Shindigger

Jane Fonda Was No Hippie

We weren’t expecting a New York screening of a film about a Chinese dancer to be a heavily Australian event, but that’s what Monday night’s special showing of Mao’s Last Dancer at the Crosby Street Hotel was-its director, Bruce Beresford, is an Aussie, and the screening was presented by Australian Consul General Phillip Scanlan. The Read More

With His Little Finger, Washington Bags Bad Guy

Phillip Noyce’s The Bone Collector , from a screenplay by Jeremy Iacone, based on the book by Jeffery Deaver, manifests itself as a visually elegant, often gruesome thriller that tries to make hailing a cab in Manhattan seem as dangerous as taking a shower in a motel was in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960). A serial Read More