Author: Jake Tired

The Sydney Film Festival, nearing one month from its starting date, continues to make additions to the eleven-day event. This time pairing with Sydney restaurant The Bridge Room for a screen and dine event. The gourmet cinema event will run from the 14th-15th of June and start with a screening of Ants on a Shrimp:…

Streaming service Netflix will again open its floodgates this May, replacing older shows with new series and films. The month of the Taurus will see a surprising amount of films make way for a surplus of TV series, as Netflix shifts it’s focus to providing more original content. Among the bigger additions next month is…

Paul Ireland and Damian Hill prevailed over the long weekend, as their latest opus Pawno opened to positive reviews and a generous box office. The film, a gritty story revolving around a pawnshop in Footscray, opened over the ANZAC day long weekend to an average of $3,120 per showing on a selected nineteen screens. Local…

As Ghostbusters gets closer to international screens, original receptionist Janine (played by Annie Potts) finds second life in Aussie actor Chris Hemsworth as the bumbling “puppy dog” Kevin. Where the original Janine was the often wry, witty phone attendant (“I’ve quit better jobs than this”), Kevin is set to be a more geeky, innocent character,…

When the minds behind the always-unpredictable BBC comedy, The Mighty Boosh, had been saying that they were planning on working together in the near future, fans of the long defunct, much missed TV series must have been feeling at least a little nostalgic. Had the pair had it their way though, we would have seen…

Turner Classic Movies has put together The Velvet Underground of classic movies with their new streaming service, FilmStruck. A supergroup composed of The Criterion Collection, Warner Bros, Fickle Alley and a range of independent classic film catalogues forming the crux of their new streaming service, FilmStruck. The service will be free from advertisements and while pricing…

With the first seasoning coming to an end last Sunday, HBO has announced the immediate release of their series, VINYL, at the cost of $25.99 (SD) and $30.99 (HD) and to be sold through digital retailers Google Play, iTunes, FetchTV, Sony and Xbox. The digital download will also contain bonus features, including a twenty-one minute…

After the original Jurassic World rejuvenated dinophiles and series fans everywhere, director Colin Trevorrow has passed the torch to the talented J.A Bayona. The Spanish native is holding on to a solid resume, having been at the helm of The Impossible (Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts) and worked alongside Guillermo Del Toro in The Orphanage. It’s…

In a ploy to further explore new media and interactive content, Twitter has partnered with Screen Australia to bring new elements of audience engagement to ABC3’s latest drama Tomorrow When the War Began. The series is to be the first of four national dramas that will be produced as a part of the partnership, with…

Australia has a patchy history of great films but in the post Peter Weir years we’ve seen a new class of auteurs fill the gaps in our national cinema narrative, enter: Joseph Sims-Dennett. Having a frenetic past of studying film, balancing books for Subway and shooting TV commercials, Joseph owes a lot to his experiences as…

Chris Hemsworth has built a reputation on being the brawn, block jawed sweetheart from the land below, yet if you were to catch the later scenes of In The Heart Of The Sea, you might have trouble finding him. Taking on a script with a tumultuous past, Hemsworth and (Ron) Howard formed their second duo…

The quinary to what’s become one of the few lasting vampire franchises in motion, Underworld, has finally received its next title; Underworld Blood Wars. A franchise that’s never really had too much trouble finding a good cast will return with another selection of international actors, this time dipping into televisions extensive talent pool. Kate Beckinsale…

Stephanie King has an origin in film not so dissimilar than that of Audrey Hepburn, both transitioning from dance to screen with an elegant pas de chat. Stephanie’s latter years have been spent in the screen environment, working on Australian TV series The Code, Chocolate Oyster and Teenage Kicks and her eclectic skillset seems to…

The latest trailer for the next TMNT film has been making the rounds ahead of its June 9 release, and it’s looking a lot more epic than the 2014 entry. The trailer boasts some slick CGI as well as an appearance from one of the series originals, Casey Jones, to be played by Arrow’s Stephen Amell,…

Charlie Cox, the man behind the Daredevil mask braced the stage at a Netflix event in Paris early Monday morning to discuss the future of the eponymous TV series. After an unquestionably-successful two-season run as the first Marvel heroes with a series of their own, Cox didn’t have a lot of light to shed on…

On a tour through Queensland promoting his Stan Original series Wolf Creek and new film Observance, Australia’s own John Jarratt seems to be enjoying himself. He’s been on a roll for stellar performances throughout the past year and he had quite a bit to say about young Australian talent and the perpetuity of Mick Taylor…

For a man with a long history of success recreating true stories, Ron Howard must have been pinching himself when he was approached by Chris Hemsworth with the script for In The Heart Of The Sea. Having worked together only two years prior on Rush, the pair had established a relationship that would ultimately form…

Umbrella Entertainment has announced their latest project, Remember, will screen at the Jewish International Film Festival’s Holocaust Series, the newly established film series to take place alongside the main JIFF in November. The film stars Academy Award winners Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau, and is directed by Atom Egoyan, making his annual contribution to film….

It’s surprising that in the decade where every hero and his sidekick have been cast in their own TV series, films, franchises, Looney Tunes haven’t yet compiled their own, all-star team in an Avengers-style pastiche. Perhaps Hank Nelken felt the same way, after he recently announced he was working on a Speedy Gonzales feature film…

To celebrate the release of Creed to DVD and Blu-ray, Roadshow set up a micro orchestra to cover the original Rocky theme (“Gonna Fly Now” by Bill Conti) at the crest of Sydney’s toughest set of stairs. Watch the embattled runners reborn in the video below, Creed is the tale of Apollo Creed’s son Adonis…

After years torturing one another through Community, Joel McHale has begun final negotiations to play former-co-star Chevy Chase in the upcoming Netflix Original, A Futile and Stupid Gesture. The biopic will follow National Lampoon co-founders Douglas Kenney (played by Will Forte) and Henry Beard (played by Domhnall Gleeson). The film will be a ‘sad story…

Following in the tradition of global franchising, Australia will soon have their very own anthropomorphic steam engine joining the cast of Thomas The Tank Engine. A green and gold engine from South Australia, Shane will be modelled on the 520 class – a train first built at South Australian Railways’ Islington workshops in 1943 to…

It was NRL luminary Jack Gibson who said, “In football, if you are standing still, you’re going backwards fast“. These words are lived by Heath Davis’s lapsed hero Barry Kelly (played by Steve Le Marquand) and extend to the broader film in the suburban melancholy and missed opportunities of Australian redemption tale, Broke. Broke begins…

Australia has played the crest to the wave of ‘indie horror’ films settling amongst international audiences. Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook was received as one of the best horror films of the decade, and the minimalist-horror ethos settles well with Australian roots in Outback Gothic; something that’s quite present in Joseph Sims-Dennett‘s Observance. The film follows…

As Team S.H.I.E.L.D waves off Bobbi “Mockingbird” Morse (Adrianne Palicki) and Lance Hunter (Nick Blood) on their journey to ABC’s latest Marvel spinoff, Marvel’s Most Wanted, the network signs two villains to prod the coals of the new series. Oded Fehr (The Mummy, Resident Evil) will play the antagonist to the Morse-Hunter partnership but his…

J.J. Abrams looks determined to continue his push for racial diversity in Hollywood with the latest cast announcement for his long-speculated sci-fi thriller, The God Particle. Having recent success in 10 Cloverfield Lane and Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens, Abrams will again join forces with Paramount, and has enlisted Nigerian-American director Julius Onah…

Amy Schumer and Foxtel will be in cahoots this April, bringing Australian viewers episodes of her latest, Inside Amy Schumer Season 4, the same day as it airs in the USA. The latest announcement comes as an addition to Comedy Central’s already staggering comedy globetrotters, including The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Workaholics, Tosh.0, Broad…

Joe Manganiello recently sat down with The Iris’s Larry Heath to talk about the reprisal of his childhood icon in Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday. When you got offered this role and you knew that essentially, it was kind of for you how was it feeling you were going to be playing a version of yourself? Well, when…

The Iris found themselves locked in a room with screenwriter Paul Rust last week to talk about his role in bringing Pee-Wee to new audiences without losing the sentiments of the Tim Burton original. Congratulations on the film, it seems like you’re doing so much on Netflix right now, do you find it affords you…

One of the most unusual films to come from the SXSW film festival is Nicole Lucas Haime’s Chicken People. The documentary is a character story at heart, telling the tales of American snowbird breeders as they prepare their birds for competitions. Larry took some time with director Nicole Lucas Haimes and cast-member Shari McCollough to…