Year: 2016

It’s one of the most exciting events on Sydney’s cultural calendar. Vivid Sydney has grown into a phenomenal platform of innovative lights, music, and ideas; one which the world pays close attention to as, for a few weeks (five days longer this year), Sydney turns into the shining star of the Southern Hemisphere. One of…

SAFIA continue to prove themselves as ones to watch as producers of some fine as hell music with their new single, “Make Them Wheels Roll”. “Embracing Me”, the band’s previous release, set a great benchmark for where the band is headed through this year and in this new tune, they’ve gone and upped it once more….

DMA’s. What can’t they do wrong right now? Two weeks into the release of Hill’s End and the band is continuing to dominate and the latest in their catalogue, “In The Moment”, is another gem. Take a look at the official music video, just released, below! ———- This content has recently been ported from its original home…

With Deadpool behind us, Batman v Superman only a week away from release and Captain America: Civil War a month off, we’re pretty firmly in superhero season for 2016 with Fox’s X-Men: Apocalypse getting a new trailer to mark the occasion. The trailer, set to a moody cover of a Coldplay song, sees both the X-Men…

The hype around AMC’s Preacher has never been as big as it is now, immediately following its debut at this year’s SXSW. Larry caught up with lead star Dominic Cooper to talk about how he got involved with the project. Check it out below: Preacher premieres on May 22nd 2016. ———- This content has recently been ported from…

Honestly, what did you expect? This week, via the sacred medium of his Facebook page, Seth Rogen released unto the world the first full, red band, trailer for his animated film Sausage Party. It has d*ck jokes; it has bun jokes; it has violence; it, somehow, still has weed. It’s his magnum opus,  his Harry Potter…

Netgear’s presence into the home and business security space began with the Arlo Wire-Free camera launched in 2015. Now Netgear has returned with the Arlo Q, a 1080p HD camera boasting with a 130-degree field of view, 2-way audio, cloud recording, instant email alerts and a quick setup – making the user experience a simple…

With season six of HBO’s Game of Thrones seemingly around the corner, The Iris’ Fergus Halliday sat down with star Alfie Allen to talk Theon Greyjoy, redemption, his favorite scenes, and more of what we can expect from season six. Fergus: So, we’re here to talk about Game of Thrones season five (which releases on DVD and…

Released today via Paramount Pictures, the trailer for remake movie Ben-Hur showcases an action-packed film touching on themes of revenge, war and slavery. With an all-star cast including Jack Huston, Toby Kebbell, Morgan Freeman, and also starring Rodrigo Santoro, Nazanin Boniadi, Ayelet Zurer, and Sofia Black D’Elia, the film reveals an intriguing story on how Prince Juda Ben-Hur…

How I Met Your Mother graduate and awards season staple Neil Patrick Harris will star in the upcoming Netflix adaptation of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. Harris will try his hand at the villainous Count Olaf, a role that previously gifted us all with peak Jim Carey in the 2004 film adaptation. According to Deadline, Harris…

With its cinematic release on August 25, Life On The Road is an exciting upcoming  film which stars the very funny Ricky Gervais. Since his days in The Office (U.K), David Brent (Gervais) is now a travelling salesman and chases a rockstar dream by self-financing a UK tour with his band, Forgone Conclusion. A documentary crew follow…

Discovery Networks Asia Pacific (DNAP) in Australia is a branch of the world’s number one non-fiction media company Discovery Communications. This year, it opens its doors with the launch of its annual local production initiative, Discovery Ignite. As part of this initiative, Discovery Communications will be accepting programming pitches towards the six channels of factual,…

Goya award-winning Spanish director Daniel Guzmán will be welcomed at this year’s annual Spanish Film Festival as a special guest. Guzmán began his career as an actor at the age of 14 and has worked many roles in the movie, theatre and TV industries. After gaining experience as an actor, he then began writing, producing…

Legendary have answered fan-fueled demands for new Warcraft movie images this week by revealing brand new character art from the upcoming fantasy epic. The bold new posters represent both the Alliance and the Horde and feature two of the film’s main protagonists: Sir Anduin Lothar (Travis Fimmel) and Orgrim Doomhammer (Robert Kazinsky). A gritty-looking Lothar was…

One of the most unusual films to come from the SXSW film festival is Nicole Lucas Haime’s Chicken People. The documentary is a character story at heart, telling the tales of American snowbird breeders as they prepare their birds for competitions. Larry took some time with director Nicole Lucas Haimes and cast-member Shari McCollough to…

Tigerair are today putting on two very tempting sales to further their commitment to affordable travel. The first is following the concept of ‘pay to go on way, return for $1’ as they look to do something special for the approaching Easter holidays. The second sale will be to celebrate the recently launched services to…

As a card carrying feminist, my secret desire to be (and, let’s face it, be with) Indiana Jones always felt like something I had to suppress. Not because I didn’t want to get chased by giant boulders or offer up some great one-liners or have someone write “LOVE YOU” on their eyelids (I’ll win the…

As March Into Merivale approaches it’s end for another year so too does the big Coogee Foreshore Festival at Coogee. Easily one of the biggest and best events of the comprehensive Merivale food and wine festival, the event brings an afternoon of eating and drinking by the beach as both inside and outside the sprawling…

Australia’s largest and fastest growing health food and lifestyle hub will open its sixth store in Sydney’s Lane Cove on Thursday 31 March 2016. From under one ethical, sustainable roof, About Life offers the services of a wholefood supermarket, café, self-service food bar and catering company. The range of natural groceries offered, from staples to…

There are some very big things going down in Sydney this weekend, with the most super-sized being the start of The 20th Biennale of Sydney. So much mind-bending, challenging activities and art exhibitions will be spread across seven Sydney venues fashioned as “Embassies of Thought”; it’s a packed program with something for pretty much everyone…

Wednesday morning saw hundreds of SXSW attendees pour into Ballroom D of the Austin Convention Centre to be present for First Lady Michelle Obama‘s special keynote address. Focusing on the Let Girls Learn initiative, the First Lady was joined by Queen Latifah, Missy Elliott, Sophia Bush and Diane Warren for the session, the latter three also involved in the making of…

The Temper Trap will be returning to the live circuit around Australia this May for their intimate concert tour in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. The tour is in support of their upcoming third album, the follow-up to 2012’s award-winning self-titled LP, the same project which gave us Aussie anthems “Trembling Hands” and “Need Your Love”. With…

Tully On Tully are hitting the road in support of their sophomore EP Miles Away. Written in New York and recorded in the Victorian highlands, the tracks on Miles Away speak of the bands experiences in the big city as well as dealing with the “tyranny of distance”  being so far from home. Ahead of their tour the…

Having just been added to the lineup for the Bendigo leg of the Groovin’ The Moo  festival Tiny Little Houses have dropped their brand new track “Milo Tin” Singer Caleb Karvountzis’ vocals are perfectly offset by jangly guitars and swirling pop riffs.  With Melbourne singer/songwriter Rosebud Leach on backing vocals, the track takes a look at a…

Emma Louise, go on and get down with that beat! The Brisbane songstress has captured our attention with her new single “Talk Baby Talk”, a new insight into her current musical direction, to be explored further on new album. Emma’s vocals haunt on the track, floating over an irresistible groove and production that will have you hooked…

Tinpan Orange‘s “Rich Man” is a track that oozes beautiful melancholy that highlights the richness of Emily Lubitz‘s vocals and the delicacy of the Melbourne’s groups arrangements that have made them so beloved by fans over previous releases. The single now has a music video and, directed by Jam Nawaz, visualises this similar sense of vulnerability the…

The physical and emotional hits kept coming for the last two days of WOMADelaide 2016. The heat would not relent, and while watching Quarter Street send the crowd into a salsa frenzy on Monday, sweat accrued in places that it is not natural for sweat to accrue. Thankfully, the crowd didn’t mind. In fact, they…

Luring a missing cat back to it’s owner through a series of small actions is still a mildly frustrating way to start a sprawling adventure in The Legend of Zelda universe, dull when compared to the stunning Ocarina of Time or Majora’s Mask, but Twilight Princess is much more than first impressions, as we witnessed…

As tickets to Australia’s biggest Pop Culture Expo come on sale today for the Sydney and Perth events, the promotion has gone and added another chunk of stars to the already significant amount in attendance. The event will be celebrating their 15th anniversary with some of the nations fondest 90’s icons. Charmed stars Shannen Doherty and Holly…

After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, Morris from America is screening at this year’s SXSW. Director Chad Hartigan’s third feature film tells the tale of an African-American boy who relocates to Germany with his single father. Larry had a chat to cast-members Craig Robinson and Markees Christmas about the film. Larry: Congratulations on this film. Everyone’s…