Fire Emblem is one of the biggest and best RPG franchises not only for Nintendo, but it feels like it can go toe-to-toe with the big ones like Final Fantasy. In Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave, a Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive, it’s safe to say that the franchise is still going strong. It’s not merely the…
The Strokes are returning to Australia in February 2027, announcing headline shows in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney as part of their Reality Awaits Australia 2027 tour. It will be the New York indie-rock icons’ first Australian headline tour since their sold-out run in 2022, following their return last year to headline Harvest Rock in Adelaide….
Earlier this year, we premiered Lucy Burke’s wonderfully atmospheric single “One Way Track”, one of the early tastes of her latest EP, Meet Me There. Now the Sydney singer-songwriter returns with the video for the EP’s title track, and we’re delighted to be premiering it today. The EP marked a new chapter for Burke, pairing organic…
Some controllers are simply made for champions – and I do mean that quite literally. For those playing at a high level who want a controller to match, the new Tegenaria Lite from GameSir is made in collaboration with renowned fighting game competitor MenaRD. Designed for competitive play, this controller looks and feels great to…
Thanks to Warner Bros. Pictures, we have 5 double digital in-season passes (Admit 2) to see Tom Cruise in a role unlike any other in Alejandro G. Iñárritu‘s original dark comedy Digger, in Australian theatres from October 1st, 2026. Academy Award winner Tom Cruise stars in Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s original film “Digger”….
Back in March, we pad the pleasure of premiering “Winterlude” from Perth-based New Zealand songwriter Damien Binder, and today we’re equally thrilled to be bringing you the video premiere for his latest single, “I Can’t Believe My Mind”. Following his 2023 album Bright Side, 2024’s Heartful EP and this year’s “Winterlude”, Binder continues a rich…
You Am I are preparing for a string of shows to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Hourly, Daily. The band will be joined by a string quartet on their “Strung Up” tour that kicks off in Castlemaine. Tell me about the Strung Up tour that’s starting next month. Russell “Rusty” Hopkinson: Well, we have engaged…
Naarm/Melbourne metalcore outfit Vault Hill are preparing to release their new EP Modern Way this Friday, 25 September, and today we’re thrilled to give you an early listen to the record in full. Inspired by vocalist Morgan O’Brien’s experiences living and working across the Northern Territory, Modern Way is an ambitious and deeply personal collection….
Last year, I had the pleasure of reviewing Alienware’s budget-friendly 32-inch QHD AW3225DM monitor. I liked that monitor so much that I eventually bought one. Fittingly, I’m writing this review on it. I mention this only to say that as I peeled open the packaging of Alienware’s newest 39-inch 5K OLED ultrawide monitor, I felt…
I use earbuds daily, and while I use traditional earbuds for the most part, I have always appreciated the open-ear design to help users to keep track of their surroundings; a helpful feature when you’re taking the dogs for a walk at night or want to stay aware of the nearby traffic on a bike…
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…
There’s an agonising distinction between wanting to live and wanting to have lived. Elsinore, Simon Stone’s deeply affecting account of the final chapter in Scottish actor Ian Charleson’s life, understands that difference intimately. Faced with a body increasingly betraying him, Charleson isn’t simply fighting for more time. He wants the time he has left to…
I’ve seen so many new stories about abandoning a high-powered job for a role which is far simpler but also far more satisfying. Cosy fantasy novels about owning a tea store and farming sims about escaping to the countryside abound, and I’m a little sick of it. In this world of stories about the beauty…
Friday night was my first time at Geelong’s latest music venue, Church. Unassuming from the outside, the converted church building is now a bar, complete with a stage and enough standing room for 150 people. For locals, this a huge feat. Sure, we’re only an hour from Melbourne, but to have something like this on…
Following the release of their latest album Hoggar, Malian Tuareg band Tinariwen have announced an Australian tour, taking in Melbourne, Sydney, Byron Bay, Hobart, Brisbane, as well as two shows at WOMADelaide. Formed in northern Mali in 1979, Tinariwen champion their people’s nomadic culture, rooted in the desert borderlands between Mali and Algeria. They are…
Films centred around degenerative illness are often walking an unenviable tonal tightrope. Push too hard towards inspiration and the characters can become vessels for an uplifting message; lean too heavily into suffering and their lives become defined entirely by their diagnosis. Onwards and Sideways understands that living with Parkinson’s can be frightening, exhausting, frustrating and,…
Onwards and Sideways may begin with a diagnosis, but its beating heart lies in everything that diagnosis cannot define. Oscar-nominated director John Madden’s tender, unexpectedly funny drama stars Rhys Ifans and Laura Linney as Tony and Emma, two strangers diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at the same clinic on the same morning. What initially binds them…
Diagnosed with the same degenerative disease, at the same clinic, on the same day, Tony (Rhys Ifans) and Emma (Laura Linney) may suddenly find themselves bound by Parkinson’s, but Onwards and Sideways is far more interested in everything that makes their experiences entirely their own. For Oscar-nominated director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love, Proof), that…
At a certain point in a long-term relationship, “When are you having kids?” seems to stop being considered an intrusive question and instead becomes accepted small talk. Marriage apparently isn’t enough of a milestone. Happiness isn’t enough of an answer. There must be a next step, and for Annie and Aaron, the wonderfully lived-in couple…
Rebel Wilson clearly has an enormous amount of affection for the girl groups that soundtracked her formative years. Spice Girls, All Saints, Destiny’s Child and The Pussycat Dolls all hover over Girl Group, a bright, loud and relentlessly enthusiastic musical comedy that wants to bottle the particular euphoria of watching a group of women harmonise,…
Hayley Williams is bringing The Hayley Williams Show to Australia for the first time, with two special headline performances confirmed for Sydney and Melbourne in February 2027. The Paramore frontwoman will take over Sydney’s Enmore Theatre on Wednesday, 10 February, before heading to Melbourne’s Forum on Wednesday, 17 February. An incredible opportunity for fans to…
Technology may have finally achieved what decades of law enforcement couldn’t: put expert pickpocket Harry Lehman out of business. Nobody carries cash anymore. Phones can be tracked. Credit cards can be cancelled before you’ve even made it to the next subway stop. For the wonderfully weathered criminal at the centre of Noah Segan’s The Only…
I reviewed Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1 when it launched in 2023, and thought that while those games could have used a nicer 1080p polish, they still hold up incredibly well on modern platforms. Not to mention the clean menus, loads of bonus content and even some older original NES titles, it’s a no-brainer…
