At 155 minutes, and unfolding across three timelines that initially appear to have only the faintest connective tissue, La Bola Negra asks its audience to place an enormous amount of trust in directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi. For much of its first two hours, their sweeping queer epic can feel deliberately elusive, moving between…
PNAU played an electrifying set full of (Go) bangers to an adoring crowd as part of Brisbane’s Night at the Parkland concert series, held in Roma Street Parkland. Opening the night was solo acoustic artist Birren. There were some slower and quieter moments throughout his set, including a cover of Leon Bridges’ “River”. Unfortunately these…
Chan Marshall brings Cat Power back to Australia in November and December 2026 to perform her acclaimed 2006 album The Greatest in full, celebrating one of the defining records of Chan Marshall’s remarkable career. The Australian tour kicks off at The Tivoli in Brisbane on November 30, before travelling to Geelong, Melbourne, Adelaide, the iconic…
Suki Waterhouse is heading back to Australia, announcing four headline dates for her highly anticipated The Loveland Tour this December. The British singer-songwriter will bring her dreamy indie-pop sound to Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne, marking her biggest Australian run to date. The tour follows the July release of Loveland, her third studio album. It…
Being encouraged to recognise your own brilliance can prove a cruel lesson when the person doing the encouraging preferred you when that brilliance remained safely beneath theirs. That uncomfortable contradiction sits at the centre of Niki Byrne’s The Julia Set, an academically minded coming-of-age drama that doesn’t rewrite the formula but finds enough intelligence and…
Hip hop heads left enlightened after legendary artist and activist Brother Ali played The Triffid in Brisbane last night. The second show of his three-date East Coast tour with support from homegrown heroes Horrorshow proved that the Minnesota rapper is far from finished. Brother Ali is one of the most respected MCs in the game…
There’s something inherently dangerous about satire when the person holding the knife is willing to turn it back on themselves. That tension sits at the centre of Everybody Wants to F*ck Me, the provocative new film from writer-director Jonathan Schey, which arrived at the Toronto International Film Festival with Taron Egerton stepping into the uncomfortable…
Jonathan Schey’s Everybody Wants to F*ck Me is the kind of film that seems determined to make you laugh before making you question exactly why you’re laughing. What begins as a filthy comedy about modern dating gradually mutates into something darker, stranger and considerably more uncomfortable. Taron Egerton plays Adam, a London gallery worker who…
