Author: Larry Heath

We continue our Flight Review series, this time flying from Los Angeles to Toronto via Air Canada. Click through to check out Editor Larry Heath’s service review, covering everything from in-flight entertainment and meals to comfort and hot tips for traveling… Airline: Air Canada Route: Los Angeles to Toronto (Pearson International) Seat: 26D (Aisle in…

It’s July in Australia, and being the dead of winter, most of us are looking for some exciting things to do indoors! Well, as luck would have it, we have a list for you of seven arts events across the East Coast of Australia that are the must attend attractions this month. Almost all of…

Last night, The AU Sessions returned to The Hive Bar in Erskineville for our fifth instalment, featuring local artists Lincoln and Ed Wells. Both talented artists graced us with the accompaniment of a keyboard – while Ed also had a backing guitarist to round out his amazing sound. We may be a bit bias, but…

the AU review presents an exclusive AU session with UK artist Frank Turner, filmed while he was in Australia earlier this year for Bluesfest. The video captures Frank playing a solo and acoustic version of his brand new song “The Angel Islington”, taken from his just announced new record, Positive Songs For Negative People, which…

July has arrived! And with it are a string of the American blockbusters that usually come with it. But, that won’t stop the variety, with documentaries about famous musicians, a take on the later years of Sherlock Holmes and the return of an Anime classic amongst the films we’re excited to see on the big…

When it comes to rich cultural history, there are few cities in America with more to offer than San Antonio, Texas. Situated less than 90 minutes drive from Austin, Texas, San Antonio used to be one of the State’s best kept secrets. But now, it’s one of the fastest growing cities in the USA, with…

Directed by Ken Kwapis and starring the incomparable Robert Redford, Nick Nolte and Emma Thompson, last week the Australian trailer and poster for A Walk in the Woods were released. The film is a comedy based on the book of the same name by travel writer Bill Bryson.

For the first time in its history, the iconic face that welcomes guests into Sydney’s historic Luna Park was lit up by projections over the weekend, promoting the upcoming release of Terminator Genisys. The projections were created by renowned projection designer Peter Milne from The Electric Canvas.

A sequel to 1986’s Top Gun has been long rumoured – and news first came to light back in 2010 that the process to bring Tom Cruise’s career defining role back to the big screen had started. Now, some five years later, it seems that everything is on track to bring Maverick back to screens…

The first trailer the for the upcoming crime drama Sicario (which means “Hitman” in Mexico), has been released.

In what is promised to be the sixth and final instalment of the Paranormal Activity series, The Ghost Dimension is due out in cinemas on October 22nd and this week Paramount have revealed the first trailer and images from the set. As with many of the past films, they look intent to scare plenty of…

When it comes to rich cultural history, there are few cities in America with more to offer than San Antonio, Texas. Situated less than 90 minutes drive from Austin, Texas, San Antonio used to be one of the State’s best kept secrets. But now, it’s one of the fastest growing cities in the USA, with…

After playing cops together in 2010’s The Older Guys, Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell are going to return to the screen together in the new comedy Daddy’s Home – out in Australia on Boxing Day. In the film, the pair play Dad’s who enter a bit of a domestic war. The synopsis goes a little…

It’s almost midnight as I arrive at the Ace Hotel, jumping out of a taxi, having flown into Newark Airport on the other side of the Hudson. I walk past someone taking a selfie with a man who I assume is famous; he is ushered into a car moments later (then again, with Uber, who…

Take the title character from Dexter, throw him into a world where instead of killing the bad guys, he’s destroying their lives through digital espionage, and you start to get the vibe of the new USA Network series Mr. Robot, which had a special episode one premiere at SXSW earlier this year, ahead of its official…

Our favourite boutique bar and cinema, Golden Age, is going to be holding exclusive Sydney screenings of the film Eden, charting the rise of “French Touch” house music, a genre that heralded the likes of Daft Punk and Cassius. There have been five screenings announced, which kick off this Thursday. Accompanying the Friday screening will also be Paul…

In our new regular series on AU Abroad, we take you around the world and deliver you our culinary picks for the things you just have to eat when you head to some of our favourite cities. We continue this series in one of the best cities to eat in the world: New York. You…

Much like Melbourne, for a city with one of the best public transport systems in the world, the airport seems to have been neglected over the years in Toronto, Canada. In the past, to get downtown from the airport it took a bus, a couple of trains and roughly over an hour to get to…

In the venue’s biggest update since it opened its doors in August 2013, the Bridge St Garage Bar and Diner in Sydney’s CBD has just launched a brand new, fully equipped second bar and deli at the back of the diner. Opening up to the public earlier this month on June 9th, the new Bridge…

Adding to the massive list of sequels and reboots that are hitting our cinemas this year, is a sequel to Sony Pictures Animation’s Hotel Transylvania, which will be released in Australian cinemas on November 26th. Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky (who also directed the original film), the film stars the voices of Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin…

With just over a week until doors open at Oz Comic-Con Melbourne, Keisha Castle-Hughes, best known for her role in Whale Rider and recently introduced into the epic TV series Game of Thrones is one of three late additions to the event. Paul Blackthorne and Rila Fukushima from the hit TV show Arrow have also been added to the event. The…

One of the hottest names in comedy right now, Amy Schumer (Inside Amy Schumer), is set to come to Australia introduce her first feature film, Trainwreck, alongside co-star and fellow comedian Bill Hader (Saturday Night Live). The film, which has so far been received positively at screenings – including at SXSW in Austin, Texas – is Produced…

You had us at Bill Murray. But the synopsis for the film makes it all the better: “A washed-up music producer finds one last shot at redemption with a golden-voiced young girl in Afghanistan.” Not bad, eh? And with Kate Hudson amongst the cast, there’s a bit of a bizarro Almost Famous vibe about it…

Dreamworks is making good on its promise to bring us a third film in the hugely successful Kung Fu Panda series, with the first trailer for the film starring Jack Black seeing the light of day earlier today – though the film itself won’t be released until late March 2016. But, as is typical of…

Today, over 25 locations internationally are showcasing the “3-Finger Salute” from The Hunger Games series. Promoting the upcoming release of Mockingjay: Part Two, the posters can be seen at Times Square in New York, Westfield Centre in London, Colonne di San Lorenzo in Milan, Novy Arbat Avenue in Moscow as well as at locations around…

With tickets flying out the door for the 2015 installment of the iconic Lollapalooza festival in Chicago next month, organisers have announced a run of late night “Aftershows” that will take place in the leadup to the festival, and each night of the event. Many of these shows have already sold out, but these shows…

Over the last two weeks, our Sydney Film Festival review team have covered some 40 films at the festival, the reviews of which you can look back at HERE. After much debate and discussion, we’re now counting down our favourite films of the festival: FICTION FEATURE FILMS: 6. Love & Mercy is a powerful and tragic…

When Ryan Gosling premiered his Directorial debut Lost River to a packed house at Cannes last year, it’s fair to say the odds were stacked against him. He couldn’t have picked harsher critics to premiere his film to. This is a crowd who have rarely been fans of Actors turned Directors. Do you remember The Brave – Johnny…

I’m ending my Sydney Film Festival coverage looking at a short film that was a perfect end to the run of incredible cinema at the 62nd annual event. Sari Braithwaite’s Smut Hounds was a nine minute film, screening before the French film Metamorphoses, detailing the festival’s role in bringing the conversation of censorship to the…

No-one was expecting to see gameplay from Kingdom Hearts 3 during the Square Enix E3 presentation this morning, but that’s exactly what we were given. 2 minutes and forty five seconds of glorious gameplay. As in the past games from the series, Kingdom Hearts 3 will feature characters from across the worlds of Disney, with…