Category: Reviews
Comedy fest review: Lords of Strut in Chaos
I cannot emphasise enough how the marketing for Lords of Strut does not capture what you will see.
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Comedy fest review: Marcel Lucont’s Whine List
Marcel Lucont’s was one of the shows I was most looking forward to this festival. He’s won a tonne of awards recently and everyone raved about him at his most recent trip here a couple of years ago.
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Comedy Fest Review: Arj Barker in Get in my head
I saw Arj Barker for the one and only time in a gala show a few years ago. I wasn’t that impressed with his ‘surf rock’ comedy then, but the thing with gala shows is that you get a 5 minute slice of a comedian’s repetoire.
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Comedy Fest Review: Eamonn Marra and Jonny Potts in All Day Breakfast
Line-up shows are funny things, I mean obviously comedy shows are largely all funny, but line-up shows are a different kind of funny.
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5 Things To Help Prepare You For “Tickled”
After a couple of years in the making and a successful premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, Tickled is finally about to be shown in NZ theatres.
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Review: Jonny Potts in Loose
Last year I reviewed Jonny Potts’ NZ Comedy Fest show: The Delusionaries.
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Sleeping Beauty on Ice: Sleeping Dave in the crowd
When I was very young, maybe 4 or 5, my parents took me to watch Torvill and Dean who came to New Zealand and did their ice skating thing at the Hutt Park Raceway
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Review; Mad Max: Fury Road
I didn’t even want to see Mad Max: Fury Road. I don’t do action movies.
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Theatre review: Success
I think it’s important to make two disclaimers before I go any further with this review.
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Documentary Edge Festival review: War of Lies
The Iraq war started twelve years ago, briefly after the invasion of Afghanistan following the attacks on New York City in 2001.
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Documentary Edge Festival review: The Forecaster
What a frustrating watch! This should have been a documentary that I enjoyed immensely.
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Documentary Edge Festival: Some reviews
Tim Batt went to a screening at the Documentary Edge Festival, the screening he sat in featured all three of the following:
Read MoreComedy fest review: Ben Target in Discover Ben Target
24 hours. That’s how long the record stood for hardest review I’d had to write for a Comedy Festival show.
Read MoreComedy Fest Review: Adrienne Truscott in Adrienne Truscott’s Asking for It (trigger warnings)
Last year I saw Reginald D. Hunter as part of the Comedy Festival. His show hinged upon one big giant rape joke he did smack in the middle of his set.
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Comedy Fest Review: Eastend Cabaret in Perverts
Eastend Cabaret is the type of show that isn’t for everyone. It’s for most people. But not for everyone.
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Comedy fest review: Des Bishop in Made in China
I’ll copy/paste the blurb for Des’ show to set some context: In February 2013, Des moved to China for a year so he could learn enough Mandarin to perform stand-up to a Chinese audience. He even starred on China’s biggest dating show. Now he’s here to share these hilarious and unique experiences with you.
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Comedy fest review: Sanjay Parbhu in Because I said I would
Sanjay Parbhu has been performing as a comedian for around 7 years, since graduating from the NZ comedy fest initiative “Class Comedians” while still in high school. This is his debut solo show.
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Comedy fest review: Alice Brine & Daniel John Smith in How to Fold a Fitted Sheet
This show boasts two of the best up and comers on the Wellington comedy circuit.
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