Nintendo has a long history of sports games; it made its Wii console infamous with Wii Sports being included with the console, and from there a few sequels and spin-offs have come to each console after. In this latest instalment, we return to Wuhu Island from the Wii Sports Resort game with some classic games…
I’m going to admit something here: despite the fact it’s been doing the rounds, I haven’t read The Housemaid by Freida McFadden yet. Instead, I’ve been reading her latest novel, The Witch. And coming to understand just why she’s become so popular lately. Though the book has its share of flaws, The Witch was a…
Sydney’s The Buoys release their second album, Concrete Cowboy, this Friday, 23 October. It follows 2024’s Lustre, which debuted at #7 on the ARIA Australian Albums Chart and earned a J Award nomination for Australian Album of the Year. Produced again by Chris Collins, the new record was shaped by frontwoman Zoe Catterall’s move back…
Canberra-based country-pop artist Leila has been a familiar face here at the AU review. We premiered her single “Do Without” last year, followed by the title track of her new EP, “Heart and Soul”, back in July. We’ve enjoyed watching her develop as a songwriter, and today we’re delighted to bring you the exclusive premiere…
Some films arrive with enormous expectations. Others emerge seemingly out of nowhere, capturing the imagination of audiences in ways nobody could have predicted. Curry Barker’s Obsession was very much the latter. Premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness programme in 2025, the wickedly twisted psychological horror went from an independent genre discovery to…
Some of my earliest memories with film were of Toy Story and Toy Story 2. So naturally, I grew up alongside those games as they were released on various platforms. I played most of them when they came out (yes, I’m that old) and actually still have most of these original copies in my collection…
For all the spectacle and larger-than-life personalities that have traditionally defined comic book cinema, there’s something refreshing about a superhero universe willing to embrace the ugliness of its own mythology. And in the case of Clayface, ugliness is very much the point. Unrelentingly bleak, frequently grotesque and entirely uninterested in providing audiences with the usual…
There’s something inherently heartbreaking about the idea of a machine understanding the value of human connection better than the people who created it. That contradiction sits at the centre of Klara and the Sun, Taika Waititi‘s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro‘s acclaimed 2021 novel, a science-fiction fable that explores artificial intelligence, faith, grief and the lengths…
