Growing up doesn’t necessarily mean letting go of the things that once made us feel alive. For Australian filmmaker Daley Pearson, that delicate balance between childhood wonder and adult responsibility sits at the heart of Allen, Netflix’s nostalgic, wonderfully offbeat adventure about a man who never quite recovered from losing his extraterrestrial best friend. Co-directed…
The creative minds behind one of Australia’s most beloved television exports are turning their attention to a different kind of family adventure, as Netflix unveils the official trailer for Allen, a heartwarming new Australian feature from Brisbane-based Ludo Studio. Best known for bringing the Emmy and BAFTA Award-winning phenomenon Bluey to audiences around the world,…
From childhood nostalgia and the friendships that shape us to alien invasions and the enduring magic of a Friday night at Blockbuster, the cast of Allen reflected on their new Netflix adventure at a special Brisbane premiere. Queensland has long provided the backdrop for stories of adventure, but on Wednesday evening, November 11th, Brisbane played…
Sydney/Melbourne dream-pop quartet LUCIDBLOOM return this week with their second EP, COEXIST, and we’re premiering it in full ahead of its release this Friday via ASCENT Music. The EP was written and produced entirely by the band, with sessions taking place in drummer Astrid Holz’s converted-truck studio and guitarist Tom Haeusler’s home studio, before being…
The buzz phrase of the minute; AI, or artificial intelligence, is all anyone seems to talk about these days. It has infiltrated our workplaces, our personal lives, and all industries imaginable. Anna Goldsworthy enters the discourse with the publication of a thoughtful essay for Quarterly Essay on the current (past and future) state of its…
I first stumbled upon Grace Robinson while scrolling Instagram a few months back, when a clip of her debut solo single, “harder than you think”, landed in front of me. With the flood of content pushed onto our feeds, it would’ve been easy enough to scroll past, but something about the hooky indie-rock track made…
