Cries of hip hop being “dead” have been around for over ten years, but they’ve never rang more true than in 2026. Last year, hip hop, for the first time since 1990, had failed to crack the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. That’s not the death-knell some claimed, but it marked a…
When Cédric Klapisch makes a film about time, he doesn’t treat it as something fixed or distant. Instead, it becomes something fluid – memories bleeding into the present, generations speaking to each other across decades. His latest film, Colours of Time, screening at the Alliance Française French Film Festival, begins with a simple discovery: in…
Gold Coast Film Festival returns from 22nd April to 3rd May, 2026, and if this year’s opening and closing night films are anything to go by, it’s shaping up to be one of its most emotionally charged editions yet. Fresh from critical acclaim at the Berlin Film Festival, Warwick Thornton’s Wolfram will open the festival…
Hailing from the vibrant streets of Gadigal Land, Social Strangers are a four-piece alternative rock outfit blazing their own trail in Sydney’s heavy underground. Drawing from grunge, punk, emo rock, post-grunge and nu-metal, the band fuses raw intensity with immersive storytelling — anchored by a powerhouse female vocalist, electrifying guitar riffs and a heavy-hitting rhythm…
There’s something undeniably thrilling about watching a filmmaker swing this hard. From Maggie Gyllenhaal – whose directorial debut The Lost Daughter announced a fierce and precise new voice – The Bride! arrives as a bold, operatic reimagining of Mary Shelley’s mythos. On paper, it’s intoxicating: a 1930s Chicago-set fever dream starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale,…
On Monday night, American folk artist Sam Beam (better known by his moniker Iron & Wine) arrived in Brisbane to a sold-out Princess Theatre as part of his first Australian tour since 2018. The folk troubadour delivered his inimitable brand of lo-fi acoustic song writing, this time in its most exposed form. Performing completely solo,…
