1987’s Hellraiser is one of those films I have vivid memories of, simply because I had watched it at an age that is, and should be considered, way too young. I was into horror movies as a young teen and thought the edgiest, and at times most brutal, films were the ones to watch. The…

Good luck finding @ on the internet. In an age where discoverability, search engine optimisation and carefully curated online identities are practically prerequisites for musical success, Philadelphia duo @ (yes, just the symbol) have managed to make themselves almost impressively difficult to Google. Behind the spectacularly unsearchable moniker are Victoria Rose and Stone Filipczak, a…

It’s hard to believe we’re this close now, but in what feels like the final, big marketing push for Rockstar Games, we now have the official launch trailer of Grand Theft Auto 6. It’s showing off a tone we’ve already captured through much of the previous footage, but it seems like we’re getting more than…

Friday has rolled around again, and once again we’ve got a smorgasbord of the best new music from across Australia and the world to share with you. Our Discovery playlist on Spotify and Apple Music has been updated with ten new tracks, including two we premiered earlier this week. Naarm’s Harriet Wraith takes our Track…

Garden gnomes have long been considered harmless, if somewhat unsettling, fixtures of suburban lawns. But in the delightfully deranged new Australian horror-comedy Gnomes, those innocent-looking ornaments are anything but, as an ancient evil unleashes an army of murderous garden dwellers upon an unsuspecting small town. Blending the creature-feature chaos of Gremlins with the bloody irreverence…

From the explosive opening of “KAMIKWASI” to the reflective closing moments of “On Everything”, Kwasi takes listeners on a journey through identity, alienation, self-destruction and ultimately self-acceptance on his debut album, Outstanding MISFIT, released today, 16 October. The Naarm/Melbourne-based Ghanaian-Australian artist has been carving out his own space in the music scene, bringing together hip-hop,…

What’s your favourite dish from your childhood? That one meal that brings back memories of home, family and that feeling of contentment. For theatre-maker and singer-songwriter Joshua Hinton it’s his grandmother’s chicken curry. A Place in the Sultan’s Kitchen (or How to Make the Perfect One-Pot Chicken Curry) at the Sydney Opera House is an…

After almost 3 years of dominating our ARIA charts, country sensation Zach Bryan has heard our plea and finally announced his first Australian headline tour. The Young Manhood & Other Donatable Organs tour will visit Australia in December 2027, with tickets going on sale next week. As Bryan has made his struggles with touring known,…

Celebrating 35 years of bringing the world to Adelaide, WOMADelaide has unveiled its first full artist lineup for 2027, returning to Adelaide’s Botanic Park/Tainmuntilla from 5–8 March. The festival has always been noted for its rich diversity of music and culture, and 2027 looks set to continue that tradition. British rave pioneers Underworld, known for…

It was all smiles at the Adelaide Film Festival opening night, as dignitaries and guests walked the Pink Carpet at Goodwood’s Capri Cinema. The event featured the Australian premiere of Wild Horse Nine, Martin McDonagh‘s dark comedy starring John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell as two CIA operatives. Malkovich plays Chris, a prickly, terminally ill agent,…

Leicester’s own alt-rockers, Kasabian, are bringing their “Nothing Better Than This” tour to Australia and New Zealand in February and March next year, with gigs at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion and Perth’s HPC, alongside appearances in Brisbane at On The Banks Festival, in Christchurch at Electric Avenue, and in Melbourne at Palace Foreshore.  The tour follows…

Thanks to Sony Pictures Australia, we have 5 double in-season passes (Admit 2) to see Taika Waititi‘s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun, exclusively in cinemas from October 22nd, 2026, starring Jenna Ortega, Amy Adams, Steve Buscemi and Natasha Lyonne. Based on the bestselling novel from Nobel Prize-winner Kazuo Ishiguro and written and…

The number of keyboards and mice seems to be growing by the day, and Dell have decided to jump into the fold with their Pro 7 Rechargeable Compact Keyboard and Mouse (KM746). This wireless combo is sleek and minimal, providing a decent option for those potentially working from home, or those looking for a lighter,…

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard treating us to a full rock ’n’ roll show at Hordern Pavilion, before heading to Liberty Hall for a rave, with just a road separating the two venues; two shows – one massive night!  Xiao Xiao kicked the night off with a killer support set before King Gizz turned…

The video game-to-film adaptation has long been a notoriously difficult undertaking. Despite the Mortal Kombat films enjoying relative commercial success and this year’s Resident Evil proving a welcome exception to the rule, Hollywood has continually struggled to translate the appeal of interactive entertainment into something equally engaging on the big screen. Whether it’s the baffling…

Guitar bands are back. Perhaps they never really left, but if they did, Sydney five-piece kate moth might just be the ones to lead the charge. Arriving with the blistering confidence of a band far further into their career, No Key Sharp Enough is a six-track debut EP that is as immediate as it is…

There comes a point in life when the excitement of new beginnings becomes increasingly difficult to separate from the anxiety of leaving things behind. Careers, relationships, children, homes and the seemingly endless responsibilities of adulthood have a habit of arriving all at once. For Melbourne-born musician Tom Iansek, known under his solo moniker #1 Dads,…

Jane Austen‘s stories have endured for more than two centuries, their romantic misunderstandings, rigid social expectations and quietly devastating heartbreaks proving remarkably timeless. It’s little wonder filmmakers continue to revisit her work, even when the challenge of bringing something new to such familiar material becomes increasingly difficult. With Sense and Sensibility, director Georgia Oakley isn’t…

Last year we premiered “Wasting Time”, a breezy single from Melbourne singer-songwriter Duxie Franklin, and today we’re thrilled to have her back with the exclusive first listen to her latest, “I Feel You”, ahead of its release this Friday, 16th October. Where “Wasting Time” celebrated doing absolutely nothing, “I Feel You” is far more tangled….

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…

Winner of the Best Director award at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, La Bola Negra, from filmmaking duo Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, is an ambitious and deeply affecting exploration of queer identity, repression and the enduring legacy of love across generations. Unfolding across three distinct periods in Spanish history, the film examines how desire,…

The lineup for Golden Plains Nineteen has arrived, and once again Aunty has put together a wonderfully odd, wide-ranging and very Golden bill for the Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre. Returning to Wadawurrung Country from Saturday 6 to Monday 8 March 2027, Golden Plains will welcome a lineup headed by Geese, Underworld, Angine de Poitrine, Miss Kaninna,…

The red swimsuits are back, and so is one of television’s most recognisable franchises, with the first trailer for the new Baywatch offering audiences a glimpse at the sun-soaked action, beachside drama and familiar faces awaiting them when the series premieres exclusively on Stan in Australia from January 2027. More than three decades after the…

The odds are looking ever in Australia’s favour as The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping launches its global press tour in Sydney, with Australian actor Joseph Zada and Mckenna Grace arriving to promote the highly anticipated next chapter in the blockbuster franchise. Directed by franchise veteran Francis Lawrence and adapted from Suzanne Collins’ bestselling novel,…

For nearly half a century, the Friday the 13th franchise has taught audiences to fear what lurks around Crystal Lake. With A24’s Crystal Lake, creator and showrunner Brad Caleb Kane is asking audiences to look at that mythology from an entirely different perspective – not by beginning with the unstoppable killing machine Jason Voorhees would…

After almost two decades of cinematic silence, Jason Voorhees is finally back. Well, sort of. The hockey mask-wearing, machete-wielding horror icon has remained conspicuously absent from our screens since 2009’s Friday the 13th reboot, with legal complications and creative uncertainty keeping one of the genre’s most recognisable villains frustratingly dormant. Now, with A24’s eight-part prequel…

The notion of “moving on” after losing someone has always felt somewhat cruel. It suggests that grief is something we can eventually put behind us, that heartbreak comes with an expiration date, and that finding happiness again somehow requires us to leave behind the people who once made us happy. Cinema has often embraced this…

Grief is rarely a linear experience, and the notion of simply “moving on” after losing someone can feel almost cruel in its suggestion that love is something we’re expected to leave behind. It’s this emotional complexity that sits at the heart of Love of Your Life, the beautifully observed romantic drama from director Rachel Morrison…

Apple has officially unveiled HomeView, its latest attempt to become the centre of our increasingly connected homes. The new smart home display is available to pre-order in Australia from today, 14 October, priced at $449, with the first units arriving on Friday, 13 November. Now that John Ternus has taken the reins as Apple’s new…

I’m a massive Star Wars fan, but I’m also a massive fan of arcade-style racing games like Wipeout and Burnout. So if you haven’t heard of Star Wars: Galactic Racer yet, that’s the best pitch I can really give you. Merging those franchises is not only a genius idea, but it has provided some of…