Day: 9 June 2022

Interview: Biig Piig on honesty, collaboration and coming to Australia

Ireland’s Biig Piig is a lot more refined and delicate than the imagery of a boar. Her music is strikingly sincere and forthright, washing audiences with a calming groove that’ll have you popping on Biig Piig in almost every situation. And Australian and New Zealand fans will no longer have to resort to streaming, albums or…

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 drops an action-packed reveal trailer

After what feels like months of waiting, we’ve finally been gifted a “world reveal” gameplay trailer for Call of Duty’s latest annual offering, the highlight anticipated Modern Warfare 2. The almost 2-minute trailer shows off a bunch of single-player gameplay as we once again join Captain Price and Task Force 141 on a daring, high-stakes…

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Interview: Drax Project on their jazz roots, Kiwi upbringing and ‘Mad At You’

As they’ll tell you, it’s very likely you’ve heard Drax Project without realising this pop RnB collective was from New Zealand. Shaan Singh, Sam Thomson, Matt Beachen and Ben O’Leary met while studying jazz, each specialising in their respective instruments when they came together to busk in order to pay their rent. The four quickly…

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Emily the Criminal; if it’s wrong to root for the bad guy then you won’t want to be right!: Sydney Film Festival Review

They say crime doesn’t pay, but whoever stated as such may want to have a chat with the titular criminal in John Patton Ford‘s scrappy, oft intense thriller, one that furthers Aubrey Plaza‘s hold on chaos personified characters in the off-kilter subsect of cinema. Plaza’s Emily is a former art student with a $70,000 debt…

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Sissy is a queer, female-strong chiller that deepens Australia’s connection with the horror genre: Sydney Film Festival Review

Whether we like them (or follow them) or not, influencers – sorry, “content creators” – are a cultural mainstay in our society that often extends beyond the environment of social media.  In Australian horror effort Sissy, co-writers/directors Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes seem all too aware of the faux importance influencers place upon themselves, a…

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Film Review: Jurassic World Dominion further removes itself from the organic DNA of the original series

To paraphrase the Queen Bee of 2004, Mean Girls‘ Regina George, “Stop trying to make dinosaurs happen!” Though the love for legacy sequels is at an all-time high thanks to the recent 1-2 hit of Top Gun: Maverick and Scream, the Jurassic Park/Jurassic World continuation fails to continue the trend, further removing itself from the…

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