Hidden Sydney – an immersive, exhilarating and witty cabaret experience is set over four floors of “The Nevada”, the former Sydney brothel which boasted the biggest bed in the world. This exciting new theatrical event will play from 16 September. The star studded ensemble cast, as glittering as the Cross itself, includes – Ray Badran,…
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Starring Jean Reno and Gary Oldman, and delivering the big screen debut of a young Natalie Portman, Leon The Professional is a classic action crime thriller. Leon (Reno), a professional hitman, reluctantly takes in 12-year-old Mathilda (Portman), after her family is murdered by corrupt Drug Enforcement Administration agent Norman Stansfield (Oldman). Léon and Mathilda form…
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Now in its fifth year, Oz Comic-Con’s dedicated focus to the very best across the local and international pop culture sphere places it in a league of its own. 2016 will see the return of the show-stopping Australian Championships of Cosplay. Plus a huge range of new and exclusive event features, including Australia’s best comic…
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Based on the incredible true story of Pablo Escobar, Narcos is an inside look at the men who would stop at nothing to take down the notorious cocaine trafficker and ruthless boss of the Medellin cartel. From the Colombian government to the DEA agents who would risk their lives, to the US officials who would…
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Currently airing on SBS to rave reviews, Trapped is an Icelandic TV series that tells the story of recently re-located police officer Andri Olafsson, who moved his life to a small town at the bottom of a beautiful fjord in the northeast of Iceland, leaving behind a questionable past in Reykjavik. It’s the first Icelandic…
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Mel Gibson returns to the big screen with shades of Sicario and Payback in what’s being called an “edge-of-your-seat action thriller”. Scripted by Straight Outta Compton’s Andrea Berloff and The Town’s Peter Craig (based on his novel), Blood Father is brought to the screen by the team behind The Prophet and Rust & Bone and…
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Tickled is an explosive new documentary, set to release nationally to Australian cinemas on August 18th. Directed by and starring popular NZ journalist and TV personality David Farrier, Tickled premiered to rave reviews at Sundance Film Festival and Melbourne International Film Festival this year. It even scored a perfect FIVE STARS with our reviewer. The…
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A man wakes up in a Moscow laboratory to learn that he’s been brought back from the dead as a half-human, half-robotic hybrid. With no memory of his former life, a woman who claims to be his wife tells him that his name is Henry. Before she can activate his voice, armed thugs storm in…
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From August 4th, IMAX Darling Harbour will be screening the latest DC Comics blockbuster Suicide Squad. With an all-star cast including Margot Robbie, Will Smith and Jared Leto, Suicide Squad is about a group of supervillains who accept a secret government mission that will likely results in their deaths. Watch the film trailer here IMAX…
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A black comedy set during the aftermath of the Cronulla riots, Down Under is the story of two carloads of hotheads from both sides of the fight destined to collide. Sincere, though misguided, intent gives way to farcical ineptitude as this hilarious yet poignant story of ignorance, fear and kebab-cravings unfolds, and what was meant…
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After supporting Vera Blue on her sold out tour this May, Matt Gresham today announces his debut headline tour this July, bringing his live show to intimate rooms around the country. Having sold out all shows on his west coast tour earlier this year, fans better act fast to avoid missing out. To celebrate the…
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A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic and possession. Featuring Anya Taylor-Joy (Morgan, Atlantis), Ralph Ineson (The Kingsman, Guardians of the Galaxy), Kate Dickie (Prometheus, Red Road). Panic and despair envelops a farmer (Ralph Ineson), his wife (Kate Dickie) and four of their children when youngest…
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From acclaimed director Michael Bay (Armageddon, Transformers) comes the incredible true story of six elite ex-military operators who fought to protect the CIA against overwhelming odds when terrorists attacked a U.S. diplomatic compound on September 11, 2012. Starring John Krasinski (The Office, It’s Complicated), James Badge Dale (World War Z, The Departed) and Pablo Schreiber…
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Etched, crafted, carved and coaxed into being in-between Brisbane and Brooklyn, Culture How Could You? is the debut album by Alice Night. Bold and conscious storytelling spun against that intimate musical frontier of expression opened up by artists such as Bjork, Beth Orton and Ani Difranco, ‘Culture How Could You?’ is at once radical honesty…
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As Batman hunts for the escaped Joker, the Clown Prince of Crime attacks the Gordon family to prove a diabolical point mirroring his own fall into madness. What does it take for a person to snap? How much despair for a mind to fracture? Win a Double Pass to the Event Cinema George St screening…
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From 27 to 30 July, Riverside Theatres will present an exciting co-production between Bell Shakespeare and Griffin Theatre Company, The Literati, a new translation of Molière’s Les Femmes Savantes by Justin Fleming. Skewering haughty pretention in a deliciously satirical fashion, The Literati follows the story of Juliet and Clinton, young lovers torn apart by Juliet’s…
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The boys are back at it again! Kevin Hart (The Wedding Ringer, Get Hard) and Ice Cube (Straight Outta Compton, 22 Jump Street) return as the comedy duo in Ride Along 2. Eager to prove his worth before his wedding, rookie cop Ben (Hart) accompanies his soon to be brother-in-law James (Ice Cube) as he…
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While on holiday in Marrakech, an ordinary English couple, Perry (Ewan McGregor, The Impossible) and Gail (Naomie Harris, Spectre), befriend a flamboyant and charismatic Russian, Dima (Stellan Skarsgård, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo), who unbeknownst to them is a kingpin money-launderer for the Russian mafia. When Dima asks for their help to deliver classified…
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A wholly original, enormously entertaining, and deeply heartfelt look at what it means to be human, Swiss Army Man is the feature film debut of acclaimed music video directors Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan (collectively known as Daniels, and responsible for the beloved Turn Down For What video, among many others). Bursting with limitless creativity…
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Japanese Kabuki Theatre is coming to the heart of Brunswick in a thrilling tale of sacrifice, cultural understanding and martial arts all set to the backdrop of the turbulent spirit world of Japan. Gaijin will premiere with a limited season at the Brunswick Mechanics Institute from Wednesday July 6 until Saturday July 16. Presenting a…
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Direct from its’ season at Melbourne’s fortyfivedownstairs, the Seymour Centre is proud to present Paul Capsis as Quentin Crisp in Resident Alien, as part of The Reginald Season from 12-23rd July. From his early years as an androgynous nude model in 1930’s London, to finding fame as the first to speak so openly about life…
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In the last days of a dying logging town, Christian returns to his family home for his father Henry’s wedding. While home, Christian reconnects with his childhood friend Oliver, who has stayed in town working at Henry’s timber mill and is now out of a job. As Christian gets to know Oliver’s wife Charlotte, daughter…
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This country has a cultural heartbeat like few others. For millennia that pulse has been powered by music. It has always been song that has told this country’s stories – it’s why such an ancient culture remains so alive and powerful. But today we see a new tradition being born – young artists drawing from…
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From HBO and the creators of Entourage comes Ballers. Dwayne Johnson plays Spencer, a retired American Football Superstar who is trying to reinvent himself as a financial manager for current players in sun-soaked Miami. Among his prospective clients are Ricky, a talented but volatile wide receiver who seeks to balance his off-field antics with his…
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Hinterland is atmospheric and disturbing – a detective drama of poetry and scale, a story of blood, soil and belonging. The first series of the acclaimed Welsh series ended with a bloody cliff hanger and now the second series will see DCI Tom Mathias (Richard Harrington), return to a world of killers and their victims…
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In a village in the north of Turkey, Lale and her four sisters innocently celebrate the end of the school year at the beach with some boys. The supposed debauchery of their actions causes their home to progressively transform into a prison; classes on housework and cooking replace school, and marriages are arranged. The five…
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A once-charming cabaret chanteuse has gone rogue – armed with a biting wit, an appetite for romance and revenge, and a set of lungs you really have to hear to believe. A brand new work from this fearless darling of the Australian Cabaret Stage, Rogue Romantic sees Anastasia’s satirical wit turn personal experiences inside out…
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From Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger comes Vinyl, a new drama series that explores the drug and sex fuelled music business of the 1970s. Richie Finestra (Bobby Canavale) is a major-label exec with a dark past and an even darker present. With his company, American Century Records, facing a number of client crises, and with…
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Anna Kendrick and Sam Rockwell put the ‘u’ & ‘I’ in ‘quirky’ when they team up in the action/comedy adventure, Mr. Right. When unlucky-in-love Martha (Kendrick) meets Francis (Rockwell) he seems different from other guys. Really different. In fact, if you don’t count that he’s a hitman on the run from crime cartels, he may…
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This documentary film festival is an Australian edition of the renowned Canadian festival that will take place across three cities (Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra) from 14th June – 3rd July. The renowned Canadian festival hotDocs, the world’s leading documentary film festival will bring 24 inspiring and thought-provoking films from 15 different countries. The program has…
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