Author: Peter Gray

There’s a fine line between love and obsession, and an even more dangerous one between getting what you want and understanding what it might cost you. In writer-director Curry Barker‘s unsettling supernatural horror Obsession, that distinction becomes terrifyingly blurred when Bear (Michael Johnston), a lonely shop clerk harbouring romantic feelings for his longtime friend Nikki…

Is it really love if the person you desire has no choice but to love you back? It’s a question that takes on increasingly sinister implications in Obsession, the unsettling psychological horror film that explores the dangerous intersection of romantic longing, emotional manipulation and the desperate need to be loved. When hopeless romantic Bear (Michael…

For anyone with even the slightest fear of spiders, the thought of being trapped inside an apartment building overrun by the eight-legged creatures is probably enough to induce a cold sweat. It’s a premise that practically writes itself, and one that Crawlers, the latest addition to the increasingly crowded arachnid horror subgenre, wastes little time…

KATSEYE are taking the WILDWORLD TOUR to even more fans, with the group announcing a new run of shows across Asia, Australia and New Zealand in early 2027. Following a series of sold-out shows across Europe, the UK and North America, the global girl group will kick off the newly announced leg on January 27th,…

What happens when a seemingly innocent dinner party becomes an unexpected exercise in emotional honesty? In Olivia Wilde’s provocative and wickedly funny relationship comedy The Invite (read our full review here), Seth Rogen and Wilde star as Joe and Angela, a married couple whose increasingly fractured relationship is thrown into disarray when they invite their…

Thanks to Sony Pictures Australia, we have 5 double in-season passes (Admit 2) to see the action-packed How To Rob a Bank, from the director Bullet Train and The Fall Guy, exclusively in cinemas from November 12th, 2026. In HOW TO ROB A BANK, a crew of social media-savvy bank robbers broadcasts their daring heists,…

The most devastating thing about losing someone isn’t always the absence itself, but the possibility that holding on to them might prevent us from ever moving forward. It’s this uncomfortable intersection of love, guilt and obsession that drives Last Seen, the gripping six-part Australian thriller adapted by writer and executive producer Kris Mrksa from Ryan…

Most teenagers have enough trouble navigating high school without having to contend with millions of strangers watching their every move. But for 16-year-old Australian rock sensation Maple’s Pet Dinosaur, growing up and breaking into the music industry have become almost inseparable experiences. What began as an outlet for the anger and isolation she felt while…

When does ambition become obsession, and at what point does the pursuit of success begin to fundamentally alter who we are? In A24’s psychological crime thriller Primetime, Robert Pattinson portrays television journalist Chris Hansen, whose involvement in NBC’s controversial To Catch a Predator series transformed him into an unlikely cultural phenomenon. Set against the sensationalised…

More than two decades after he first introduced audiences to the gloriously misguided, culturally appropriating wannabe gangster from Staines, Sacha Baron Cohen is bringing Ali G back into a world that, in many ways, seems even more absurd than the one he originally inhabited. But while the character’s tracksuits, questionable vocabulary and unwavering confidence in…

At a time when political absurdity has become so commonplace that reality frequently feels beyond parody, the return of Sacha Baron Cohen‘s Ali G should, in theory, provide the perfect opportunity to expose the increasingly ridiculous state of modern society. After all, Baron Cohen built his reputation on confronting prejudice through comedy, using the apparent…

History has a way of making the inevitable seem obvious. We look back on defining moments with the comfort of knowing how they unfolded, often forgetting that the people responsible for shaping them were operating without that same certainty. In the 72 hours leading up to D-Day, as the Allied forces prepared to launch the…

History may remember D-Day as one of the defining victories of the Second World War, but for the men tasked with deciding when it should take place, victory was anything but certain. Before Allied soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy, before the sacrifices and triumphs that would become etched into collective memory, there were weather…

In an age where our lives are increasingly curated for social media and differing opinions can be silenced with the click of a button, the idea of throwing complete strangers into a house where there’s nowhere to hide feels more fascinating than ever. As Big Brother Australia returns to Network 10 with live nominations, live…

Few films have courted controversy quite as enthusiastically as Ken Russell’s The Devils, and even fewer have emerged from decades of censorship feeling quite so alarmingly relevant. First released in 1971, Russell’s feverish examination of religious fanaticism, sexual repression and institutional corruption has long existed under the shadow of its own notoriety, with its most…

Television has become awfully serious about being taken seriously. Prestige dramas arrive with cinematic ambitions, comedies increasingly disguise themselves as emotionally bruising character studies, and the once-reliable pleasure of spending half an hour with a group of funny people in a familiar setting has become something of an endangered experience. Somewhere along the way, the…

As audiences fall in love with Miranda Hart all over again, rumours of a sitcom revival couldn’t come at a better time. With traditional television comedy becoming an increasingly rare commodity, perhaps what we need now is a little more laughter, a little less cynicism, and a return to the wonderfully chaotic world of Miranda….

After conquering the global box office to the tune of $1.7 billion, Christopher Nolan‘s mythological epic The Odyssey is preparing for its next journey, this time from the biggest screens imaginable to the comfort of your living room. The film will arrive on digital platforms, 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on November 18th, 2026 (months…

Some of the most revealing moments in music history were never intended for an audience. In 1993, Andros Georgiou picked up a Sony Handycam and began filming his cousin, lifelong best friend and creative collaborator, George Michael, as they embarked on one of the most ambitious projects of the singer’s career. The resulting footage now…

There’s something particularly unsettling about a villain who doesn’t believe he’s doing anything wrong. Someone whose moral compass is so spectacularly broken that manipulation becomes second nature, cruelty is simply another means of communication, and the line between charm and menace is practically nonexistent. In the increasingly dangerous world of The Terminal List, that man…

Some pop stars spend their careers trying to escape the characters that made them famous. Others spend years attempting to reinvent themselves, distancing their present from a past they would rather audiences forget. Hilary Duff, however, seems to have arrived at a rather refreshing realisation: there’s something quite wonderful about embracing every version of yourself….

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…

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…

Revenge may be a powerful motivator, but what happens when there’s nobody left to punish and the man who has sacrificed everything must find a reason to keep living? That question sits at the heart of the second season of Prime Video’s The Terminal List, which sees Chris Pratt return as Navy SEAL Commander James…

Memory is a curious thing. It rarely returns to us chronologically or completely. A face, a photograph, a fleeting glance, or a feeling we didn’t quite understand at the time can suddenly transport us back to a version of ourselves we thought we’d left behind. And perhaps the greatest cruelty of nostalgia is that, no…

For Wanda Sykes, comedy has never simply been about making people laugh. It’s about making them think, confronting uncomfortable truths, and finding a little hope in a world that increasingly feels beyond parody. In her latest stand-up special, Wanda Sykes: Legacy, the acclaimed comedian returns to her alma mater, Hampton University, for a fearless and…

How well can we ever truly know the people closest to us? It’s a question that sits at the heart of Ride or Die, Prime Video’s wildly entertaining action-comedy series that pairs powerhouse performers Octavia Spencer and Hannah Waddingham as two lifelong friends whose seemingly unbreakable bond is put to the ultimate test when one…

Ambition can be a powerful driving force, but when the desire to be seen, accepted and celebrated becomes all-consuming, the very thing that promises salvation can ultimately lead to destruction. It’s this unsettling contradiction that sits at the heart of Clayface, DC Studios’ psychological body-horror thriller from director James Watkins, which reimagines one of Gotham…

History has a funny way of remembering partnerships as individual achievements. Ask who first reached the summit of Mount Everest and Edmund Hillary’s name will likely arrive before Tenzing Norgay’s, despite the two men standing together atop the world’s highest mountain on May 29th, 1953. Jennifer Peedom’s Tenzing seeks to redress that imbalance, shifting the…