Day: 18 September 2025
The Jewish International Film Festival returns with 50 films across six major Australian cities
The Jewish International Film Festival (JIFF) returns from 19th October through to the 21st December 2025, presenting 50 new films, documentaries, shorts and a television series. Screening in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Hobart, Canberra and Perth, the festival brings together the best Jewish-themed stories from around the world. Together they span history and contemporary life, the…
Eleanor the Great; Scarlett Johansson directs bittersweet, moving drama: Toronto International Film Festival Review
One of the most poignant lines of Eleanor the Great is “Talk about the things that make you sad,” and it’s with such a notion that Scarlett Johansson‘s affecting dramedy takes it on as a throughline. A film that so easily could have been about deception becomes something far greater and more profound, transforming itself…
Couture; Angelina Jolie delivers understated, career-best work in delicate fashion-centric drama: Toronto International Film Festival Review
There’s a quiet sense of artistic rage that lingers under the surface of Alice Winocour‘s delicate Couture, a small drama that looks at the intersecting lives of a trio of women in Paris, all working in one capacity or another around the fashion industry. Creation and the unexpected interruptions that can derail one’s own process…
Buckle up for the first look at the star-studded Australian comedy Zombie Plane
Comedy, action, horror and nostalgic pop culture have fused together for the experience that is Zombie Plane, a wild new Australian feature that has everyone from Sophie Monk and Chuck Norris, to Sir Bob Geldof and Vanilla Ice teaming up as they have to save themselves from a plane overrun by zombies. Directed by Lav…
Sydney Sweeney makes herself at home in first trailer for the thriller The Housemaid
After proving he’s just as adept at helming fear as he is farce, director Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, A Simple Favour) takes on another thrillingly entertaining best-selling novel for The Housemaid, a film that plunges audiences into a twisted world where perfection is an illusion, and nothing is as it seems. Starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda…
Laneway Festival turns 21 with Chappell Roan, Wolf Alice, Wet Leg, PinkPantheress and more
Laneway Festival is officially 21, and if the newly announced lineup is anything to go by, the AUS/NZ touring festival is entering 2026 with its most stacked edition yet. While countless other summer festivals have disappeared from rotation due to industry and financial pressures, Laneway continues to thrive as one of Australia’s most enduring and…
Buena Vista Social Club: New York’s best concert is happening eight times a week
Musicians taking centre stage on Broadway is nothing new. In recent years, artists like David Byrne and Bruce Springsteen have transformed the Broadway stage into long-running residencies. Scripted productions about real and imagined musicians, like MJ The Musical (about the life and music of Michael Jackson) or the play Stereophonic, have been awarded Tony’s, and have…
Paul Rudd and Jack Black like big snakes and they cannot lie in first trailer for Anaconda
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the Amazon… Doug (Jack Black) and Griff (Paul Rudd) have been best friends since they were kids, and have always dreamed of remaking their all-time favourite movie: the cinematic “classic” Anaconda. When a midlife crisis pushes them to finally go for it, they head deep…
Film Review: Not even Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie can save A Big Bold Beautiful Journey from its own escapist ambition
Director Kogonada (After Yang) and screenwriter Seth Reiss (The Menu) ask a lot of their audience with A Big Bold Beautiful Journey. It’s a hopeful romance of sorts that intends to utilise its magical realism to sweep viewers away into its odyssey of fantastical nature, with the added bonus of proven charm inhabitants Colin Farrell…
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater feels both fresh and familiar at the same time
2004’s Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is not only my favourite game in the long-running series, but one of my favourite games of all time. Metal Gear Solid isn’t even one of my favourite game franchises (strange, I know), but that third game just hit all the right notes for me. A cinematic, espionage-fuelled…
PAX Australia 2025 brings Nintendo, Xbox, Bethesda, Ubisoft and more in a star-studded line-up
With less than a month to go, PAX Australia 2025 is shaping up to be one of the biggest celebrations of gaming culture in the country’s history. Returning to Melbourne this October, the three-day festival has revealed a blockbuster exhibitor line-up that brings together the biggest names in gaming, unmissable activations, exclusive demos, and a…
Book Review: Ruby Jean Cottle’s Black River is an intoxicating paranormal YA
Ever since her mother left, Dusty has always been a little withdrawn. Eschewing crowds and sticking with her younger sister Opi and best friend Mali, her books and the beautiful wilderness that surrounds her mountain home are enough for her. But one morning Dusty wakes with dirt on her feet, and no recollection of how…
Anne Being Frank at the Sydney Opera House is, frankly, a little lost
Anne Frank is a name synonymous with youth, innocence, and heartbreaking tragedy. Her diaries, published after her death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945, detailed her life, and that of her family, hiding in an annex in Amsterdam during World War II. The Diary of a Young Girl, commonly referred to as The Diary…
