Last year, I had the pleasure of reviewing Alienware’s budget-friendly 32-inch QHD AW3225DM monitor. I liked that monitor so much that I eventually bought one. Fittingly, I’m writing this review on it. I mention this only to say that as I peeled open the packaging of Alienware’s newest 39-inch 5K OLED ultrawide monitor, I felt…

I use earbuds daily, and while I use traditional earbuds for the most part, I have always appreciated the open-ear design to help users to keep track of their surroundings; a helpful feature when you’re taking the dogs for a walk at night or want to stay aware of the nearby traffic on a bike…

At 155 minutes, and unfolding across three timelines that initially appear to have only the faintest connective tissue, La Bola Negra asks its audience to place an enormous amount of trust in directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi. For much of its first two hours, their sweeping queer epic can feel deliberately elusive, moving between…

PNAU played an electrifying set full of (Go) bangers to an adoring crowd as part of Brisbane’s Night at the Parkland concert series, held in Roma Street Parkland. Opening the night was solo acoustic artist Birren. There were some slower and quieter moments throughout his set, including a cover of Leon Bridges’ “River”.  Unfortunately these…

Chan Marshall brings Cat Power back to Australia in November and December 2026 to perform her acclaimed 2006 album The Greatest in full, celebrating one of the defining records of Chan Marshall’s remarkable career. The Australian tour kicks off at The Tivoli in Brisbane on November 30, before travelling to Geelong, Melbourne, Adelaide, the iconic…

Suki Waterhouse is heading back to Australia, announcing four headline dates for her highly anticipated The Loveland Tour this December. The British singer-songwriter will bring her dreamy indie-pop sound to Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne, marking her biggest Australian run to date. The tour follows the July release of Loveland, her third studio album. It…

Being encouraged to recognise your own brilliance can prove a cruel lesson when the person doing the encouraging preferred you when that brilliance remained safely beneath theirs. That uncomfortable contradiction sits at the centre of Niki Byrne’s The Julia Set, an academically minded coming-of-age drama that doesn’t rewrite the formula but finds enough intelligence and…

Hip hop heads left enlightened after legendary artist and activist Brother Ali played The Triffid in Brisbane last night. The second show of his three-date East Coast tour with support from homegrown heroes Horrorshow proved that the Minnesota rapper is far from finished. Brother Ali is one of the most respected MCs in the game…

There’s something inherently dangerous about satire when the person holding the knife is willing to turn it back on themselves. That tension sits at the centre of Everybody Wants to F*ck Me, the provocative new film from writer-director Jonathan Schey, which arrived at the Toronto International Film Festival with Taron Egerton stepping into the uncomfortable…

Jonathan Schey’s Everybody Wants to F*ck Me is the kind of film that seems determined to make you laugh before making you question exactly why you’re laughing. What begins as a filthy comedy about modern dating gradually mutates into something darker, stranger and considerably more uncomfortable. Taron Egerton plays Adam, a London gallery worker who…

There’s an agonising distinction between wanting to live and wanting to have lived. Elsinore, Simon Stone’s deeply affecting account of the final chapter in Scottish actor Ian Charleson’s life, understands that difference intimately. Faced with a body increasingly betraying him, Charleson isn’t simply fighting for more time. He wants the time he has left to…

I’ve seen so many new stories about abandoning a high-powered job for a role which is far simpler but also far more satisfying. Cosy fantasy novels about owning a tea store and farming sims about escaping to the countryside abound, and I’m a little sick of it. In this world of stories about the beauty…

Friday night was my first time at Geelong’s latest music venue, Church. Unassuming from the outside, the converted church building is now a bar, complete with a stage and enough standing room for 150 people. For locals, this a huge feat. Sure, we’re only an hour from Melbourne, but to have something like this on…

Following the release of their latest album Hoggar, Malian Tuareg band Tinariwen have announced an Australian tour, taking in Melbourne, Sydney, Byron Bay, Hobart, Brisbane, as well as two shows at WOMADelaide. Formed in northern Mali in 1979, Tinariwen champion their people’s nomadic culture, rooted in the desert borderlands between Mali and Algeria. They are…

Films centred around degenerative illness are often walking an unenviable tonal tightrope. Push too hard towards inspiration and the characters can become vessels for an uplifting message; lean too heavily into suffering and their lives become defined entirely by their diagnosis. Onwards and Sideways understands that living with Parkinson’s can be frightening, exhausting, frustrating and,…

Onwards and Sideways may begin with a diagnosis, but its beating heart lies in everything that diagnosis cannot define. Oscar-nominated director John Madden’s tender, unexpectedly funny drama stars Rhys Ifans and Laura Linney as Tony and Emma, two strangers diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at the same clinic on the same morning. What initially binds them…

Diagnosed with the same degenerative disease, at the same clinic, on the same day, Tony (Rhys Ifans) and Emma (Laura Linney) may suddenly find themselves bound by Parkinson’s, but Onwards and Sideways is far more interested in everything that makes their experiences entirely their own. For Oscar-nominated director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love, Proof), that…

At a certain point in a long-term relationship, “When are you having kids?” seems to stop being considered an intrusive question and instead becomes accepted small talk. Marriage apparently isn’t enough of a milestone. Happiness isn’t enough of an answer. There must be a next step, and for Annie and Aaron, the wonderfully lived-in couple…

Rebel Wilson clearly has an enormous amount of affection for the girl groups that soundtracked her formative years. Spice Girls, All Saints, Destiny’s Child and The Pussycat Dolls all hover over Girl Group, a bright, loud and relentlessly enthusiastic musical comedy that wants to bottle the particular euphoria of watching a group of women harmonise,…

Hayley Williams is bringing The Hayley Williams Show to Australia for the first time, with two special headline performances confirmed for Sydney and Melbourne in February 2027. The Paramore frontwoman will take over Sydney’s Enmore Theatre on Wednesday, 10 February, before heading to Melbourne’s Forum on Wednesday, 17 February. An incredible opportunity for fans to…

Technology may have finally achieved what decades of law enforcement couldn’t: put expert pickpocket Harry Lehman out of business. Nobody carries cash anymore. Phones can be tracked. Credit cards can be cancelled before you’ve even made it to the next subway stop. For the wonderfully weathered criminal at the centre of Noah Segan’s The Only…

I reviewed Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1 when it launched in 2023, and thought that while those games could have used a nicer 1080p polish, they still hold up incredibly well on modern platforms. Not to mention the clean menus, loads of bonus content and even some older original NES titles, it’s a no-brainer…

They’ve spent more than two decades touring the world, but Simple Plan still have a pretty special relationship with Australia. It’s a relationship that goes back to the very beginning. Before the Canadian pop-punk favourites had cemented themselves as one of the genre’s most enduring acts, Australia was one of the places where things started…

PAX Aus 202 is right around the corner, taking place over the weekend from October 9-12 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. This year feels crazier than ever, with new games to try, esports to watch, creators to chat to, interactive experiences to join and goodies to buy. SEGA will have four playable titles…

We have given our Discovery playlist another refresh with ten more of the best new tracks from across Australia and the world, including two we premiered on our pages earlier this week. Boorloo-based artist Clare Perrott is our Track of the Week, with her gorgeous ode to friendship “How Can I Tell You?”. “How Can…

History has a funny way of remembering partnerships as individual achievements. Ask who first reached the summit of Mount Everest and Edmund Hillary’s name will likely arrive before Tenzing Norgay’s, despite the two men standing together atop the world’s highest mountain on May 29th, 1953. Jennifer Peedom’s Tenzing seeks to redress that imbalance, shifting the…

Triptych at the Sydney Opera House is a celebration of movement and light, told through three short works: Prologue, Unfolding and Epilogue. Artistic Director and choreographer Lewis Major comments that the three pieces are “built from the simple wish to keep making.” But there is nothing simple about Triptych. Prologue sets the tone of the…

For Darcie Haven, music has always been about finding connection in places where it is not always easy to find. Growing up in Esperance, Western Australia, there was not exactly a thriving live music scene on her doorstep. Now, just a few years into her career, Haven has built a dedicated fanbase of listeners, shared…

The most inspired decision Zach Cregger makes with Resident Evil is also, on paper, one of the strangest: he doesn’t particularly seem interested in making a Resident Evil movie. At least not in the traditional adaptation sense. There’s no slavish recreation of a beloved game narrative, no parade of familiar characters waiting for applause, and…

It was almost inevitable that Frances Neagley would earn her own series. From the moment Maria Sten first appeared opposite Alan Ritchson’s human brick wall in Reacher, she proved one of the few characters capable of matching his intimidating competence without feeling like she had been engineered purely to keep up with him. She was…