Melbourne’s CBD has just gotten a whole lot spicier and magical with the reopening of Spiegel Haus Melbourne for its second season, just in time for Melbourne Fringe Festival. Following a successful debut season, which saw shows like Blanc de Blanc Encore and Maho Magic Bar stun audiences with an array of entertainment, they now present a…
Catherine Zeta-Jones being hunted across Europe by seven of the world’s deadliest assassins is already a fairly irresistible proposition. Give her a wicked sense of humour, a violent criminal history and permission to beat the living hell out of anyone standing in her way, and Kill Jackie has all the ingredients of a gleefully unhinged…
There might be a few options out there, but I admittedly have next to no experience with AR/XR glasses before trying out the Viture Pro 2 XR Glasses. But upon doing a little more research, why wouldn’t I want to try something like this? You mean I can have a massive screen on my face…
As we move into October we’ve updated our playlist with ten more of the best new releases from across Australia and the world, including two premieres from earlier in the week. Fontaines D.C. take out Track of the Week with their new single “Tongue” – the second from their forthcoming fifth studio album Dopamine Chamber…
Brisbane songwriter Simon Munro has spent more than a decade turning poetry into song, and with his literary-folk project Nausicaä he’s now given a whole album over to one poet. The Burning Glass, out 27 November, sets twelve poems by Judith Wright to music, and today we’re premiering the animated clip for the single, “Child…
Rob Riggle may be best known for his comedic work, but in Nickels, the actor taps into a far quieter and more dramatic register as Tom Monroe, a successful entrepreneur and devoted family man still carrying the grief of losing his older brother as a teenager. When, three decades later, his neighbour’s son Mitch (Aaron…
Nickels is the type of film that could have very easily overwhelmed itself. A story about grief, possible reincarnation and the signs we attach meaning to could have exploded into melodrama or lengthy monologues about faith. Instead, director Spencer King approaches the material with admirable restraint, allowing uncertainty to hang over the film and trusting…
