Year: 2018

Sydney Film Festival Review: Jirga (Australia, 2017) is a humane look behind the curtain of war

That Jirga is quiet and understated is the film’s biggest strength, consciously moving away from the lurid details of your typical war blockbuster and presenting something of a bare-bones human story about redemption and forgiveness. When Director Benjamin Gilmour and actor Sam Smith, both Australian, spent 20 days shooting this film they did so at…

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Sydney Film Festival Review: The Children Act (USA, 2018) is a slow-burning & challenging moral drama

The Children Act is a drama that is wrapped around a moral quandary. It asks the question, “How old should someone be before they can refuse medical treatment?” This adaptation of an Ian McEwan novel is an emotive legal and moral drama that will give audiences pause to think. This film is directed by Richard…

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E3 2018: Kingdom Hearts 3 gets yet another trailer at PlayStation’s E3 media briefing

A third massive trailer for Kingdom Hearts III has dropped during Playstation’s  E3 press conference, showing a bit of new footage involving the game’s Pirates of the Carribean universe.

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E3 2018: Resident Evil 2 is getting the remaster treatment

Resident Evil has come back into the limelight with the recent success of Resident Evil VII, it only feels natural that one of the high points of the franchise would be getting remastered. And boy does it look good.

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E3 2018: The new Death Stranding trailer is as weird as ever

Another E3 means another trailer for Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding. It also means we’re no closer to figuring out what the hell this game is about. But that’s part of the fun, right? See if you can figure it out. Death Stranding‘s latest gameplay trailer awaits after the jump.

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E3 2018: Insomniac’s Spider-Man gets a brand new trailer

Developer Insomniac have rocked the PlayStation E3 press conference with a ton of new footage from their upcoming superhero game, Spider-Man. Hit the jump to check it out for yourself.

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E3 2018: Watch the new trailer for The Last of Us Part II

The biggest and most anticipated game of E3 2018 has finally had its moment. The Last of Us Part II has dropped a brand new gameplay trailer during PlayStation’s E3 2018 press briefing in Los Angeles and you can see it right now.

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ABC’s War On Waste wages on in new series

ABC’s landmark series War on Waste that opened Australia’s eyes to its staggering waste levels returns Thursday 24 July, with host Craig Reucassel (The Chaser’s War on Everything) returning to tackle new targets such as water bottles, e-waste, furniture waste, while touching on topics such as food waste and the recycling crisis. In 2017, War on…

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Five Things We Learned From Hannah Gadsby’s Netflix Special Nanette

The best kind of comedy is the one that makes you laugh and cry. It’s the stuff that’s funny but also makes you stop and think. This is precisely the environment that Tasmanian-born comic, Hannah Gadsby’s final swansong, Nanette occupies. This award-winning show was filmed at the Sydney Opera House in 2018 and will premiere…

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Netflix’s new true crime series The Staircase: Five things you should know

The Staircase is a new true crime series streaming on Netflix. It will appeal to fans of Making A Murderer and The Jinx. A total of 13 episodes were released at different times and span the 16 years covering the trial of Michael Peterson, a man accused of killing his wife Kathleen on 9 December…

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Supanova Interview: Gaming God Nolan North talks about his beginning, Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool and clowns

I shouldn’t have to say who Nolan North is, but for those few uninitiated, if you have ever played a video game in the last 25 years, there is a very big chance Nolan North voiced something or someone in that game. Nolan has been around the TV, Film and Gaming industry since 1997, first…

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Film Review: Incredibles 2 (USA, 2018) brings more laughs than the original as the cast shines

It has been a very, very long 14 years, but the long-awaited sequel that many were asking for is finally here. Toy Story 4 Incredibles 2 has finally arrived! The first film was branded as the Fantastic Four film that people deserved and it catapulted the career of director Brad Bird to new heights, including…

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Win a double pass to see FORM Dance Projects Above Ground in Sydney

Above Ground features Cat’s Cradle, a new work from Australia’s celebrated physical theatre company Legs On The Wall. Cat’s Cradle explores the depths of what is private and what is public, expertly utilising a commanding apparatus that looms over the space like a curtain of tentacles. The second work, Soft Prosthetics and Metal Gods, sees…

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Nile Rodgers, Bon Iver, Eminem and more bring a diverse program to Bonnaroo’s Saturday line up

The hot sun and soaring temperatures couldn’t prevent Bonnaroo’s Saturday lineup from creating one of the most memorable and eclectic days of the past few years. Eminem was the night’s biggest draw, but Kaskade, Anderson. Paak, Bon Iver, Nile Rodgers, Old Crow Medicine Show and more showed that on Saturday there was a little something…

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E3 2018: Starlink: Battle for Atlas brings with it a new gameplay trailer along with a Starfox surprise

Starlink: Battle for Atlas is back with a fresh gameplay trailer, honing in on a colourful and  fresh art style, as our heroes take on the villainous Grax in a bid to save the galaxy.

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E3 2018: Skull & Bones hits gamers with both Cinematic and Gameplay trailers

Skull & Bones has been revealed in the past couple years to be a pirate simulator of sorts, that much is clear. But this year, we get to see in more detail than ever, what to expect on the high seas.

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E3 2018: Crash with style in a new Trials Rising gameplay trailer

The Trials series has had great success in recent years, encouraging players to crash, rinse and repeat in style; albeit a great bit of pain. The Trials series is officially back in the form of Trials Rising, a worldwide tour of disastrous proportions.

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E3 2018: Assassin’s Creed Odyssey gets its first major trailer at Ubisoft’s E3 press brief

If you were a fan and Assassin’s Creed Origins, and who wasn’t really, you’re going to be very happy about Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. The game’s E3 trailer confirms its Ancient Greek setting, the return of naval combat and more.

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E3 2018: Transference is a cross media horror game about family the digital world

A collaboration between Ubisoft and Elijah Wood’s film production company Spectrevision, Transference is a horror game with a difference.

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E3 2018: The Division 2 gets fresh trailers during Ubisoft’s E3 briefing

In The Division 2, the virus that ravaged the US has mostly blown itself out, but the US remains in disarray. Armed gangs rule the streets and protected enclaves are picky about who they let in. The question has become: can The Division make a difference or are they fighting a losing battle?

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E3 2018: Beyond Good & Evil gets another new cinematic trailer

Beyond Good & Evil continues to home in the yearly worldbuilding with another cinematic trailer, this time reintroducing Jade, heroine of the 2004 original.

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E3 2018: Silence-based brawler The Quiet Man announced

Square Enix had a lot to talk about during their E3 2018 press briefing that we’d heard about already. One the games we hadn’t heard about before was The Quiet Man, which debuted a short trailer blending live action footage and in-game brawling tied to the absence of sound.

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E3 2018: PlatinumGames announces high fantasy title Babylon’s Fall

The short cinematic trailer for PlatinumGames’ new title Babylon’s Fall features massive knights brawling with blade and magic.

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E3 2018: Just Cause 4 gets a big new gameplay trailer during Square Enix’s press event

Just Cause 4 has been one of the surprise hits of this year’s E3 conference. Less a reimagining of the franchise’s core tenets and more a substantial leap forward for the tech that drives the series, our latest look at the game promises an adventure that’s crazier and more creative than ever.

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Event Review: Oz Comic Con Melbourne 2018 Brings The Heartthrob Heat

It’s an unusual time of the year for an event that is probably one of the hottest tickets in town. Oz Comic Con Melbourne 2018, being held the second weekend of winter and this year was set to be pretty big, with some rather attractive names on the lineup to heat things up. Just some…

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E3 2018: Starfield is Bethesda Studios’ first new original IP in over 20 years

Something fans of Bethesda RPG’s have been asking for for years is a version of the now-classic Bethesda formula with a sci fi setting.  With their first new IP in over 20 years, Bethesda is answering those prayers. Starfield beckons.

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E3 2018: Wolfenstein: Youngblood is a co-op 80’s adventure coming in 2019

We all knew Wolfenstein II would find its way to Nintendo Switch eventually, and it is, that’s not the story here. What we were not expecting is a seperate co-operative adventure set in the 1980’s starring the twin daughters of BJ Blaskowicz, but that’s what we’re getting.

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