Day: 21 October 2024

Why Apple’s new iPhone 16 Camera Control button is important

It’s always the same thing when a new iPhone comes out. Has Apple done enough to significantly move the dial forward or is this another largely iterative update? Now criticisms lodged at the iPhone are perfectly reasonable. There are just some things Android still does better, from the customisation to photo processing. But to say…

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Interview: esperanza spalding on her latest album, Milton + esperanza, and one night only shows in Australia; “It’s a rarity that a lot of people you don’t know really like your songs.”

Five-time Grammy award-winning vocalist, bass player and composer esperanza spalding kicks off her highly anticipated return tour to Australia at QPAC in Brisbane for a very special one-night-only performance. One of the most unique talents in music today, esperanza has created a jazz oeuvre that seamlessly fuses soul, funk, pop and rock into an intoxicating…

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Pools displays surface-level confidence as a journey of self discovery: SXSW Sydney Screens Film Festival Review

Whilst there is a sense of an on-the-nose metaphorical aspect to Pools, and a whole lot of “girl who is going to be okay” mentality to it too, Sam Hayes‘ dramedy manages to just keep itself afloat enough in the self-discovery genre it serviceably adheres to. College student Kennedy (Odessa A’zion) doesn’t have her shit…

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