Day: 15 October 2025
Interview: Scott Derrickson on what inspired him to make Black Phone 2
The Black Phone rightfully terrified audiences when it was released across theatres in 2022. And now, just in time for the Halloween season, director Scott Derrickson is bringing the nightmarish void of his supernatural world back to the masses with Black Phone 2, where true evil transcends death…and the phone is ringing once more. As…
Interview: Madeleine McGraw on the deeper understanding of her character in Black Phone 2
The Black Phone rightfully terrified audiences when it was released across theatres in 2022. And now, just in time for the Halloween season, director Scott Derrickson is bringing the nightmarish void of his supernatural world back to the masses with Black Phone 2, where true evil transcends death…and the phone is ringing once more. As…
Film Review: Other is a gradually unsettling thriller that revels in its confusion
It’s not too far into the 95 minutes of David Moreau‘s Other that it becomes eerily evident that everyone aside from lead Olga Kurylenko has their appearance intentionally hidden or distorted from view. Moreau himself stated that it was a visual additive that played into the loneliness and confinement of Kurylenko’s Alice, who spends the…
Exclusive Video Premiere: Laura Adeline “As I See” (2025)
Melbourne-based R&B singer-songwriter Laura Adeline continues to impress with her silky-smooth delivery and bountiful feel-good vibes. She has mastered the art of finding strength from the most vulnerable of times. Laura has taken grief and betrayal and turned them into a gorgeous, breezy, uplifting salve—the irresistible “As I See”—which will be released this Friday. We are…
The AU’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025: October – December
- October 15, 2025
- Books
- Features
- Alexandria burnham
- Andrew Pippos
- anna north
- Auston habershaw
- Bloomsbury
- Brooke crawford
- cg drews
- Chloe Michelle Howarth
- del rey
- Echo Publishing
- harlequin books
- HarperCollins
- hotter childrens books
- KJ Parker
- libby iriks
- lothian children's books
- Marisha Kashino
- Morgan ryan
- Patti Smith
- Penguin
- Picador Australia
- qntm
- Random House
- shaeden berry
- T. Kingfisher
- Tachyon Publications
- tea cooper
- tigest girma
- Titan Books
- Tor Books
- Verve Books
- westwords
2025 has been an amazing year for book releases, and the final Tuesday in September saw booksellers dealing with a perfect storm of huge releases (including new releases from Trent Dalton, Richard Osman, Philippa Gregory, Benjamin Stevenson and Craig Silvey) all arriving and needing to be unpacked for eager readers in one day. To all…
The Zyron Powastellar 27000mAh 140W Power Bank is one of the best options money can buy
It’s not often a power bank genuinely impresses me. Most are either too small to be useful or too bulky to be practical. But after putting Zyron’s new Powastellar 27,000mAh 140W PD3.1 Power Bank through its paces at PAX Aus 2025, I can confidently say this is the best power bank I’ve ever used —…
LEGO Party! proves you don’t need Mario to make a great party game
LEGO Party! is one of those games you expect to pick up for a quick session and suddenly realise you’ve sunk hours into. Taking the unmistakable structure of Mario Party — board traversal, mini-game mayhem and star collecting — it adds Lego’s signature charm and, more importantly, its precision. Where Nintendo leans into chaos and…