Day: 14 June 2015

E3 2015: A complete schedule of all the livestream events at this year’s show

It’s the biggest week of the year for gaming news starts right now and thanks to the wonder of the internet you can now watch it all unfold as it happens! Many of this year’s biggest E3 press conferences will be streamed live online to audiences around the world. We’ve got the complete list of…

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Miguel Gomes’ six-hour, three-part Arabian Nights takes out 62nd Sydney Film Prize

Last night marked the end of yet another successful Sydney Film Festival as the traditional Closing Night Gala saw SFF awards announced and the world premiere of Neil Armfield’s anticipated film adaptation of Holding the Man. Before the screening, which was met with a rapturous, emotional applause, a one-hour awards ceremony was conducted in Sydney’s…

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DVD Review: Toast Of London Series One (UK, 2015)

If you didn’t manage to catch British comedy series Toast of London when it first aired on the ABC, you best drop everything you’re doing right now and take a trip to your local shopping centre to grab series one on DVD. Written by Matt Berry and Arthur Mathews, the show centres around Steven Toast,…

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Sydney Film Festival Review: Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (USA, 2015)

From prolific Oscar Winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Freakonomics and dozens of others) comes the much talked about new film Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, one of three films Gibney has showcased at this year’s Sydney Film Festival (the others were Steve Jobs: The Man…

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Sydney Film Festival Review: We Are Still Here (USA, 2014)

Most of the crew involved in We Are Still Here are veterans to the horror genre, and their collective talents come together beautifully in this half satire, half serious story. Director Ted Geoghegan pays homage to the vintage and slightly cheesy, always stringing a thread of self-awareness through the film while it unfolds with a…

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