Author: Peter Gray

Multi-award-winning comedian, podcaster (A Gay And A NonGay), radio presenter (The Hits Radio Breakfast Show), TV host – and unapologetic gay icon – James Barr is bringing his fearless, critically acclaimed stand-up show Sorry I Hurt Your Son (Said My Ex to My Mum) to the Adelaide Fringe Festival. A deeply personal hour of comedy,…

From Sony Pictures Animation – the powerhouse behind Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – comes GOAT, a high-energy, all-animal sports comedy about a small dreamer trying to muscle his way into a game built for giants. Set in the roarball arena, where claws are sharp and egos sharper, the film follows undersized underdog Will as he…

When Jennifer Lopez released Rebirth in March 2005, expectations were enormous – perhaps impossibly so. The album arrived in the long shadow of two pop-cultural juggernauts: J.Lo (2001) and This Is Me… Then (2002), records that helped define early-2000s pop and R&B. Both albums produced major hits, iconic imagery, and a public persona that blurred…

When The Fabulous Baker Boys arrived in 1989, it carried the modest shape of a character drama: two weary lounge musicians drifting through a career of half-empty hotel bars and forgotten standards. What transformed the film into something electric was the arrival of Michelle Pfeiffer as Susie Diamond – a character who, in lesser hands,…

Rumours are swirling that the Jason Bourne franchise could be gearing up for another reboot – this time without Matt Damon, the actor who defined the role across the majority of the series; The Bourne Identity in 2002, The Bourne Supremacy in 2004, The Bourne Ultimatum in 2007, and Jason Bourne in 2016, with only…

When Miranda Tapsell first brought audiences into the vibrant world of Top End Wedding, it felt like a joyous corrective to the romantic comedy formula – a film bursting with culture, community and the unapologetic warmth of family. But the story doesn’t end with the fairy-tale wedding. In the new series continuation, Top End Bub,…

During the final stage of U.S. Army Ranger selection, a routine training exercise mutates into something far more dangerous in War Machine – a survival thriller that hits the ground running and never lets up. Speaking with director Patrick Hughes and star Alan Ritchson, our Peter Gray unpacked the film’s pulse-pounding rhythm, from meticulously engineered…

There’s something undeniably infectious about GOAT. It moves at the speed of a sugar high and rarely stops to breathe, which is either part of its charm or its greatest flaw depending on your tolerance for chaos. At its core, this animated sports comedy follows a scrappy young underdog (or under-goat, technically) – Will Harris…

Brisbane’s underground favourite Boom Boom Room is ready to make some noise again. After a short break, the Ghanem Group venue reopens tonight (Friday 6th March) with a refreshed concept that leans harder into late-night energy, live entertainment and bold modern Asian flavours. The idea is simple: a night that evolves. Early evenings begin with…

More than two decades after bursting onto the pop scene, Willa Ford returns with amanda, a record that feels less like a comeback and more like a personal exhale. Ford has been open about the fact that the album “was never supposed to happen,” describing how music unexpectedly resurfaced in her life during a period…

When Cédric Klapisch makes a film about time, he doesn’t treat it as something fixed or distant. Instead, it becomes something fluid – memories bleeding into the present, generations speaking to each other across decades. His latest film, Colours of Time, screening at the Alliance Française French Film Festival, begins with a simple discovery: in…

Gold Coast Film Festival returns from 22nd April to 3rd May, 2026, and if this year’s opening and closing night films are anything to go by, it’s shaping up to be one of its most emotionally charged editions yet. Fresh from critical acclaim at the Berlin Film Festival, Warwick Thornton’s Wolfram will open the festival…

There’s something undeniably thrilling about watching a filmmaker swing this hard. From Maggie Gyllenhaal – whose directorial debut The Lost Daughter announced a fierce and precise new voice – The Bride! arrives as a bold, operatic reimagining of Mary Shelley’s mythos. On paper, it’s intoxicating: a 1930s Chicago-set fever dream starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale,…

History has always belonged to the victors – but Coco The Time-Travelling Tart would like a word. Logging on to meet London’s self-proclaimed “Champagne enthusiast” and historical menace, our Peter Gray was immediately thrown into her gloriously unhinged orbit. Fresh from sold-out gallery tours and 30 million-plus online views, Coco is bringing her chaos Down…

*Interview contains adult language and references After completely sold-out runs at Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Melbourne Fringe – and taking home the award for Best Comedy – Sophie Power isn’t so much returning to Adelaide Fringe in 2026 as she is staging a full-scale uprising. Her debut solo show, CVNT, is exactly what it…

Twenty-six years after outrunning a suspiciously familiar masked killer, the Core Four are back in the killer’s crosshairs and no horror movie IP is safe. Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Anna Faris, and Regina Hall reunite in Scary Movie alongside returning favourites and fresh faces to slash through reboots, remakes, requels, prequels, sequels, spin-offs, elevated horror, origin…

For 80 years, the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race has occupied a rare place in Australian cultural life – a spectacle of endurance that unfolds each summer as the nation watches the fleet charge south into the Bass Strait, one of the most volatile stretches of water on earth. It is a race built on…

There’s something deliciously ironic about the fact that, in an age obsessed with spoilers, audiences are flocking to stories where many already know the ending. Prime Video’s “Crime On Prime” slate isn’t just ambitious – it’s strategic. With adaptations of novels by James Patterson, Patricia Cornwell, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Catherine Ryan Howard launching…

There’s a particular kind of grime that clings to the best grindhouse horror – the sense that if you wiped your hand across the screen, it would come away sticky. Dolly, directed by Rod Blackhurst, leans into that filth with feral enthusiasm. This is not polite horror. It’s blood-caked, sun-bleached, and proudly nasty; a love…

Romantic comedies don’t usually hand the microphone to the guy who gets left at the altar. Solo Mio does, and that alone gives it a slightly different flavor. Kevin James has flirted with the genre before (and memorably scene-stole in Hitch), but here he steps fully into leading-man territory. Reuniting with the Kinnane brothers (Directors…

If legacy sequels are supposed to coast on nostalgia, Nick Corirossi and Armen Weitzman clearly missed the memo. With The Napa Boys – the entirely fabricated “fourth chapter” of a wine-soaked comedy franchise that never actually existed – the longtime collaborators have pulled off something both mischievous and oddly sincere. Co-written by Weitzman and Corirossi,…

The laughs feel a little different in 2026 – fuller, louder, maybe even a touch sentimental – as the Melbourne International Comedy Festival celebrates its 40th birthday. What began in 1987 as a relatively modest gathering of funny people has grown into something that now feels woven into the city’s DNA. For four decades, every…

The road to Scream 7 has been so fraught with controversy that it could almost qualify as its own horror story. Following the success of 2023’s Scream VI – itself marked by the absence of franchise cornerstone Neve Campbell amid a pay dispute – the seventh entry endured director departures, cast exits, online backlash, and…

With her feature debut Idiotka, filmmaker Nastasya Popov delivers a spirited satire that skewers influencer culture and reality television while grounding the chaos in something surprisingly tender: family. At its centre is Margarita – or Margusya – played with precise comic timing and quiet vulnerability by Anna Baryshnikov. A young Russian American woman living in…

The Melbourne Women in Film Festival (MWFF) is marking a major milestone in 2026, unveiling its tenth-year program with a bold and celebratory lineup championing women and gender-diverse filmmakers from Australia and beyond. Running March 19th – 23rd across ACMI and Federation Square, the festival continues its decade-long commitment to amplifying underrepresented voices on screen….

With Scream 7 stalking its way into cinemas this week, there’s no better time to revisit the franchise’s most sacred tradition: the opening kill. From subversive fake-outs to era-defining terror, the first ten minutes of a Scream movie are its thesis statement – laying out the rules, the tone, and the body count to come….

Lismore has long worn its floods as a badge of resilience – a town that rebuilds, again and again, along the banks of a river that refuses to be tamed. But in Floodland, director Jordan Giusti looks beyond the mythology of grit and endurance to ask a far more unsettling question: what happens when resilience…

In the adrenaline-charged action-adventure The Bluff, Priyanka Chopra Jonas stars as Ercell “Bloody Mary” Bodden, a former pirate forced to confront her violent past to protect her family. Director Frank E. Flowers spoke with our Peter Gray to discuss bringing the Cayman Islands’ rarely seen history to life on screen, the meticulous authenticity behind the…

The Bluff is a spirited dive into pirate-infused action, set against the jaw-dropping Cayman Brac, where towering bluffs and Skull Cave provide the perfect backdrop for a story about revenge, family, and redemption. At its heart is Priyanka Chopra Jonas as Ercell “Bloody Mary” Bodden, a woman dragged back into the violent world she thought…

History is often told in sweeping gestures – conquest, empire, survival. But in Zumeca, David Maler narrows the lens. Set against the violent collision of worlds in the early days of the Americas, the film reframes the so-called “discovery” of the New World through something far more intimate: the relationship between a Spaniard, Miguel, and…