Author: Peter Gray

Ten years ago, The Revenant arrived in theaters, redefining what audiences expect from physical and emotional endurance in cinema. Weight loss, weight gain, dangerous stunts, extensive prosthetics – these are just some of the extremes actors endure to inhabit a role. But few have pushed themselves as far as Leonardo DiCaprio did in this film,…

Sophie Hyde has always been drawn to intimacy – the kind that sits in the uncomfortable pauses between people who love each other but don’t quite know how to speak plainly. With Jimpa, arguably her most personal film to date, she turns that lens inward. The result is a warm, thoughtful and occasionally over-explanatory family…

There are films about chosen family – and then there are films that gently ask whether your biological family might be something you can choose, too. In Jimpa, acclaimed director Sophie Hyde (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande) returns with a tender, funny and quietly radical portrait of three generations negotiating love, identity and the…

There’s something deeply comforting about a movie that knows exactly what it is. War Machine doesn’t pretend to be elevated sci-fi or a meditative treatise on artificial intelligence. It’s here to drop you in the wilderness with a squad of Army Rangers, unleash a skyscraper-sized battle droid, and let the bullets – and biceps –…

There’s something undeniably poetic about two Queensland kids coming home with a windswept romance in tow. After months of globe-trotting premieres, red carpets and breathless international press stops, Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi quietly returned to where it all began, surprising Valentine’s Day audiences with unannounced appearances at multiple Brisbane screenings of “Wuthering Heights”. And…

One of the great things about documentaries such as The Rose: Come Back to Me is that it both provides further insight into a rock outfit for the legions of fans, as well as introducing uninitiated viewers into a world that proves endlessly fascinating.  I am personally of the latter, as going into this film,…

Thanks to Kismet Movies, we have 3 double digital in-season passes (Admit 2) to see Olivia Colman and John Lithgow in the tender drama Jimpa, in Australian theatres from February 19th, 2026. From acclaimed director Sophie Hyde (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande), JIMPA is an uplifting multi-generational family story starring award-winning favourites Olivia Colman and John Lithgow. Hannah…

Every Valentine’s Day, the same titles trend. The Julia Roberts megahits. The Kate Hudson comfort rewatches. The Reese Witherspoon charm offensives. The Sandra Bullock slow-burns. And, if you’re feeling windswept and literary, perhaps another brooding dive into “Wuthering Heights” and its stormy declarations of doomed love. But what if this year you skipped the obvious?…

If your Margarita order says more about you than your star sign, Iris Rooftop is ready to introduce you to your cocktail alter ego. Perched high above Hotel X in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley, the Spanish-inspired rooftop bar is stretching World Margarita Day (February 22nd) into a six-week sky-high celebration, running from Wednesday, 18th February through…

Ahead of the release of her highly anticipated sixth studio album luck… or something, arriving Friday, February 20, multiplatinum global superstar Hilary Duff has announced her first full-scale global headline tour in nearly two decades: Hilary Duff: the lucky me tour. The expansive run will see Duff perform across seven countries – the United States,…

Few novels have been simultaneously romanticised and misunderstood as thoroughly as “Wuthering Heights“. Emily Brontë’s 1847 fever dream of obsession, cruelty, class resentment and emotional sadism has, over time, been softened into windswept yearning and tragic soulmates. Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” arrives not to preserve that illusion, but to tear it open. This is not…

Corin Hardy’s Whistle wants to resurrect the kind of glossy, high-concept teen horror that flooded multiplexes in the early 2000s – and in some aspects, he succeeds. The problem is that it also inherits the era’s worst instincts. Riffing openly on Final Destination’s death-as-destiny mechanics and Smile’s trauma-tinged apparitions, the film follows a group of…

A sleek exercise in neo-noir, Crime 101 knows exactly how cool it wants to be – and mostly earns it. Set along California’s Highway 101, the film uses its coastal sprawl as both a backdrop and thematic spine, turning beach towns and long asphalt stretches into part of the story’s DNA. Here, the geography matters:…

Lauren Call is, in many ways, used to navigating dual roles. A fourth-generation Californian born and raised in Costa Mesa, she has been in front of cameras and on stages since she was six years old – from local and regional theatre across the state, to honing her craft at Orange County School of the…

The AACTA Awards red carpet always feels like a curious collision of celebration and anticipation – part victory lap for the year that was, part tea-leaf reading for the year to come. Under the camera flashes and polished smiles, there’s often a deeper conversation happening about what Australian screen culture is becoming, what it values,…

The Artful Dodger debuted in 2023, serving as an inventive sequel inspired by Charles Dickens’ “Oliver Twist.” Rather than focusing on Dickens’ original orphan, the series followed the “Artful Dodger”, Jack Dawkins (Thomas Brodie-Sangster), as he forged a new life in the British Colony of Australia, balancing ambition, love, and the lingering influence of Fagin…

Jack’s back – and so is the man who made him. With The Artful Dodger returning for an even darker, wilder second season, Port Victory’s most charming rogue finds himself staring down a noose, a relentless new lawman in Inspector Boxer, and an impossible love in Lady Belle that could get him killed. As the…

When Baz Luhrmann went searching for Elvis Presley, he didn’t just find an icon – he found a voice. Premiering to Australian audiences at the AACTA Festival, EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert unveils long-lost footage painstakingly uncovered and restored by the Academy Award–nominated filmmaker, offering an intimate, unguarded portrait of the King that feels both…

After a decade of sold-out shows, viral punchlines, and becoming one of Australia’s most recognisable  – and reliably joyous – comedy voices, Dane Simpson is doing what few comedians dare: hitting shuffle on his own legacy. 100% Hits – A Decade of Dane Simpson’s Funniest Moments!, landing at the Adelaide Fringe in 2026 (running between…

Ed Sheeran has unveiled three exclusive pop-up stores across Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, launching alongside the Australian leg of his highly anticipated Loop Tour. The global superstar is currently making his way around the country with a brand-new live show, kicking off in Perth before heading to Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide throughout the month….

Generational pop icon Robyn has announced her return to the road with a global 2026 arena run, The Sexistential Tour – her first major headline tour since 2019 and her most ambitious to date. Spanning Europe, North America, and Australia across 20 dates, the tour will feature Robyn’s biggest headline shows ever, including London’s 20,000-capacity…

Swedish pop powerhouse Zara Larsson has confirmed she will return to Australia this October with her globally celebrated Midnight Sun tour – her first visit to the country in over a decade. The Australian run follows the release of Larsson’s acclaimed fourth studio album, Midnight Sun, which arrived in late 2025 and has since soundtracked…

Talking to Stephanie McIntosh at the AACTA Festival Awards Industry Gala, you’re reminded just how fluid her career has always been – and how thoughtfully she reflects on it. From her breakthrough years on Neighbours and her pioneering pop album, Tightrope, to the accompanying televisual journey The Steph Show that felt almost ahead of its…

Thanks to Sony Pictures Australia, we have 5 double in-season passes (Admit 2) to see the star-studded crime thriller Crime 101, starring Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan and Halle Berry, in Australian theatres from February 12th, 2026. Set against the sun-bleached grit of Los Angeles, Crime 101 weaves the tale of an elusive jewel thief (Chris Hemsworth)…

The Gold Coast glittered a little brighter on the first night of the AACTA Festival on Wednesday, February 4th – not because of Hollywood shine, but because of something far rarer and more meaningful: a genuine celebration of Australia’s own. This opening night wasn’t about red carpets for the biggest stars or the climactic awards…

Twenty years on from the release of “Step Up” – Samantha Jade’s glossy, Diane Warren–penned introduction to the pop world – it’s striking how aptly that title has come to describe her career. Again and again, Jade has stepped up: into new creative arenas, back into an industry that repeatedly underestimated her, and into her…

In a sport often defined by scoreboard lights, playoff runs, and Super Bowl glory, the new docuseries The Object of the Game turns its gaze back to where it all truly begins. Arriving February 4th on Prime Video (US) – timed for the most-watched week in American sport – the three-part series assembles an extraordinary…

Thanks to Roadshow Films, we have 5 double digital in-season passes (Admit 2) to see the terrifying new horror flick Whistle, in Australian theatres from February 12th, 2026. A group of high school misfits inadvertently come across an ancient Aztec death whistle. Blowing it summons their future deaths to hunt them down. As the body count…

There is a strangely elegiac calm to the opening stretch of Ric Roman Waugh’s latest Jason Statham vehicle, Shelter – one that might catch viewers expecting immediate punches, car chases, and broken necks slightly off guard. For a while, this isn’t really a movie about violence so much as solitude: wind-battered cliffs, a creaking wooden…

There is something almost old-fashioned in the way writer/director Zak Hilditch approaches the end of the world in We Bury the Dead: less as a spectacle of chaos, more as a slow, sad reckoning with what remains when everything familiar has vanished. His latest film feels heavy with mourning from its very first frames, suffused…