Day: 20 June 2025

Soccer Mommy delivers a tight set in Brisbane for Open Season Festival

While most of Brisbane was settling in for State of Origin on Wednesday night, the line to The Princess Theatre saw Maroon jerseys replaced with corduroy jackets and baggy jeans. Inside, the anticipation was building for Nashville-based indie rock artist Soccer Mommy (the alias of Sophie Allison), who was bringing her signature blend of shoegaze…

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Interview: Jane Larkin on transitioning from athletics to art with her debut feature film The Edge; “We need to know what makes us great and take that journey together.”

In The Edge, the dramatic feature film from debut filmmaker Jane Larkin (a former Australian representative sprinter), three young women (Larkin, Japanese paralympic swimmer Mei Ichinose and First Nations powerlifter Lily Riley) navigate life, love, education, and controversy while deeply embedded in the world of elite sport. The film is an honest and gritty portrayal…

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MUSE

Feeling the glow of the new Muse single, “Unravelling”

It’s always a scary thing for me as a fan to put up my hand to review my favourite band.  What if it sucks? What if I can’t get into it?  This has been my first-world struggle as long as I’ve been a writer, and leading up to this week I’ve been back in that…

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Interview: The stars of period drama Outrageous on bringing the Mitford sisters to life

The Mitford sisters are amongst some of the most well known people in the United Kingdom, gaining notoriety in the 1930s. What caused this fame and widespread attention was not the affluent and aristocratic status of these women (although their status did lead them to be targets for scandalous headlines in the press), but the…

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Mario Kart World is a fantastic step forward for the franchise

Can you believe it’s been over a decade since we’ve had a new Mario Kart game? But along with the Nintendo Switch 2, here we are. In many ways, Mario Kart World is an awesome follow-up to an almost perfect kart-racer that has stood the test of time. On the fresh hardware, it looks fantastic…

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Sydney Film Festival: 5 key takeaways from Hideo Kojima and George Miller in conversation

The crossover between Australian film legend George Miller and Japanese video game auteur Hideo Kojima may seem odd to people unfamiliar with the two beyond their main works, but to those who follow more closely, this is a relationship that stretches back more than a decade. And when you consider the careers and creative outputs…

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The Precinct offers an ‘80s cop fantasy, but isn’t always a dream

There’s a romance to policing in fiction that real life rarely lives up to. The flashing lights, the procedural rhythm and the legend of a lone beat cop fighting against a crime-ridden city. It’s built for drama, as television has proven since the 1970s. The Precinct, from American Fugitive developers Fallen Tree Games, taps into…

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Series Review: We Were Liars; occasionally slow and misguided drama is saved by its emotional complexity

From the beloved E. Lockhart book of the same name, We Were Liars is the highly anticipated Prime Video adaptation developed by Julie Plec and Carina Adly Mackenzie. With an all star cast featuring Emily Alyn Lind, Caitlin FitzGerald, Mamie Gummer, Candice King, Rahul Kohli, Shubham Maheshwari, Esther McGregor and Australian actor Joseph Zada, We Were…

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Film Review: 28 Years Later hones its horror with a needed sense of humanity

As evident by its title, 28 years Later takes up such a time period from the virus that first unleashed itself across Danny Boyle‘s 2002 post-apocalyptic horror effort 28 Days Later.  That film centered around the days that followed the actions of a group of animal rights activists who infiltrated a laboratory in Cambridge, where…

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New Music Discoveries 20th June: Bleak Squad, Geowulf, Dressed Like Boys, and more

We’re about to hit the shortest day of the year in the Southern Hemisphere, and the new music keeps coming. This week we’ve added ten more tracks to our Discovery playlist on Spotify and Apple Music, and our track of the week goes to Bleak Squad, a new Melbourne-based outfit featuring four Australian music legends,…

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Film Review: Elio; mid-tier Pixar adventure has character but lacks cohesion

A cohesive storyline or if it makes you cry? Sometimes the personal success of a Pixar movie doesn’t always rely on the former, with many taking the latter as enough of a justification for its existence.  In such a case, Elio may be enough of a charming win for family audiences who could find themselves…

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