Year: 2014

Ahead of their massive rock and roll re-launch party tomorrow night featuring Front End Loader, Chase The Sun, The Lazys and The Morrisons, we caught up with Ben and Howler from The Lewisham Hotel to talk about the venue’s relaunch. Who are we speaking to? I’m Howler, I do the drum roles. What can we…

Drawing influences from Cat Power and Bon Iver, Sydney chanteuse Little Fox TODAY releases her debut 5-track Warrior EP (HUB The Label / Inertia). The video for lead track “Anniversary” was shot on location at Little Fox‘s Great-Grandmothers century old house, providing a timeless setting for the beautifully haunting video. Little Fox will tour the…

Following its release in Australia on DVD last month, Nazia caught up with writer/director Andrew Semans to chat about his debut feature film Nancy, Please. They talk about the low budget, the challenges of working with squirrels and more… How did you come up with this deceivingly simple concept and are you happy with it’s execution?…

The Iris takes you behind-the-scenes of the SBS 2 Australian series “The Feed” in this exclusive three part series. In part one, we document one of the new season’s most popular segments: The Chin Wag with Lee Lin Chin. Filming every Monday, we take you behind-the-scenes, filming this parody “Celebrity Gossip” segment with Lee Lin…

The programming for the 7th annual Canadian Music Week Film Fest has been announced. The festival will run from May 8th to 10th at Toronto’s The Royal Cinema and will showcase a mix of premieres, special screenings, retro rarities and limited engagements. The particular focus this year is to pay homage to musical legends and their long-lasting influence on…

Taken straight from the film’s official website, Above All Else is an intimate portrait of a group of landowners and activists in East Texas who tried to stop construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, a $7 billion dollar project slated to carry tar sands oil from Canada to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast. Risking…

The Iris had the opportunity to sit down with Aly Michalka and Dustin Milligan, the stars of the indie film Sequoia at SXSW to talk about the film. The go into detail about what it was like filming in Sequoia, dealing with the heavier subject material in the story and much more… Part One: Part…

It’s been zombies on the brain of late (pun intended), last year was a good year for undead horror flicks with Hollywood churning out some doozies (World War Z, Warm Bodies, Contracted). This genre is tricky, because it’s been overworked so many times, but looking back on the releases above it’s clear to see something’s…

After months of will they/won’t they speculation, the Monty Python team have confirmed that they will NOT be touring their hugely successful reunion shows outside of the UK. To give fans that were holding out hope one last chance to buy tickets, tickets to the 10th and final show on the 20th of July will…

I met with Baz Luhrmann’s long time co-writer Craig Pearce at The Star in Sydney, as the cast and crew were feverishly preparing for the premiere of Strictly Ballroom – while the Lyric Theatre itself underwent a facelift in time for its glamorous debut. We headed into The Star’s new food court for lunch and…

We sit down with the wonderful Mia Dyson while at the Aussie BBQ at SXSW to talk about her US experiences and much, much more… watch the chat here:

As part of our brand new section AU Abroad, we bring you a birds eye view of the world of travel. In this article series, we let you in on the best airlines to fly with. We kick things off internationally with Virgin Australia’s flagship service, taking guests on an affordable direct service from Sydney…

Just announced to be a part of Sydney Film Festival in June, The Iris brings you this series of exclusive interviews with the stars of the new film Joe. In addition to the interviews below, you can also check out our chat with star Nicholas Cage and director David Gordon Green HERE. Tye Sheridan: Adriene…

When you learn that the budget for this feature was a measly $10K, you realise what they have pulled off with feature-length film, Thale, released initially in Norway in 2012 and recently broadcast on World Movies (Foxtel). Thale is a Norwegian fantasy/horror film that brings a unique air to the hybrid genre. The film takes…

Winter is coming! Winter is coming! These are words that at least one person you know – if not everyone you know and yourself included – are very excited to hear. That’s because the ridiculously popular Game of Thrones will be premiering its highly anticipated fourth season Sunday night in the USA – which is…

This week was the final episode of RAKE Season Three and it is well worth seeing if you suspect, as I do, that a fourth season might not happen. It’s not necessarily that the show should end, but that this finale leaves so few questions unanswered that if it did, nobody would feel cheated. That’s…

The 61st Sydney Film Festival has announced 32 films that will screen during this year’s event, with the full program expected on Wednesday May 7th. The festival, which runs from June 4th to 15th, will utilise cinemas all over the city to host its screenings. This includes expanding as far as Blacktown to host a screening of the 40th anniversary…

It was 50 years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play. Not quite. This year marks the 50th anniversary of The Beatles only visit to Australia and the year that Beatlemania hit. In 1964 the band performed to 73 million viewers on The Ed Sullivan Show, played multiple overseas concerts, met Bob Dylan,…

the AU review sits down with DJ Aeroplane while in Sydney for barely 48 hours to play a showcase at The Ivy in Sydney to launch Avion Tequila tonight. We talk about that gig, his music and label (Aeropop), his past experiences in Australia playing events for Fuzzy and we look forward to his return…

This coming Saturday (April 5th), the beloved Lewisham Hotel in Sydney is officially ‘back from the grave’! Under new management, punters are invited down to celebrate the relaunch of the hotel’s live music program, with this special event set to see performances from the likes of Front End Loader, Chase The Sun, The Lazys and…

Katie Noonan has performed in many guises. Whether it is with her jazz ensemble of Elixir, collaborating with the Australian Symphony Orchestra, or recording albums with her mother Maggie. She’s made her next step in a fascinating career by coordinating Love-Song-Circus, a piece of cross art forms that envelops Australian history, circus performance and song…

All that character development wasn’t building up to any big, heartbreaking deaths as many expected. Instead, the Walking Dead crew decided that Season 4’s finale was best used to further the nuanced character arcs and set up a terrifying Season 5. ‘A’ led us through two big sequences, and took it’s time getting through each….

With the Marvel Cinematic Universe now officially settling in to Phase 2 of its film franchises there has been a distinct trend of darker more intense storylines coming to the fore. The Avengers really set a huge bar for them to try to match and the expectations are high. With Captain America: The Winter Soldier they…

The musical The King and I is returning to Australia, with a production fronted by an incredible cast including Lisa McCune, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Adrian Li Donni and Jenny Liu. We talk to the four of them about their roles, what it means for them to be performing in such an iconic musical, and we…

the AU review talks to Chance Waters about his new single “The Ticket Inspector’”, the music video, the accompanying tour and we get the latest on his next record and much more… CHANCE WATERS with special guest BRENDAN MACLEAN The “A Transit Officer Beat Up My Brother So I Wrote A Funny Song About Him”…

the AU review sits down with Jack Colwell (of Jack Colwell and The Owls) before he hit the stage for the first (SOLD OUT!) date on his national “Far From View” single tour at The Vanguard in Sydney, alongside Ella Hooper! We talk about the tour, the success he’s seen with the single, the artists…

the AU review sits down with Ella Hooper before she hit the stage for the first (SOLD OUT!) date on her national “Low High” single tour at The Vanguard in Sydney. We talk about the tour, the artists she’s performing with, what we can expect from her next record, balancing her musical duties with that…

I awoke early at my hotel for the second and final day of my brief but rewarding Newcastle adventure to get a taste of my hotel’s breakfast buffet (which you can read about HERE), though I may have thought twice about that had I realised it would be my first of three breakfasts that would…