After making her long-awaited return to the screen following more than a decade away from Hollywood in last year’s Back in Action, Cameron Diaz is continuing her relationship with Netflix, and judging by the first trailer for her latest film, Bad Day, things are about to get considerably more chaotic. Directed by Jake Szymanski (TV’s…
For some, Christmas is a season of joy, togetherness and cherished traditions. For others, it can be a painful reminder of everything they’ve lost, and the people who are no longer there to share it with them. It’s that quieter, often overlooked side of the festive season that sits at the heart of Merry Christmas…
Friendship can be a strange thing, particularly when it’s forged through decades of deception, violence and the occasional disagreement over whether it’s appropriate to kill someone during a meal. In Martin McDonagh’s darkly comic Wild Horse Nine, the unlikely tenderness between two hardened CIA operatives becomes the emotional heartbeat of a story otherwise steeped in…
Martin McDonagh has long been fascinated by men who would sooner insult, maim or murder one another than admit they actually care. Friendship in his films is rarely expressed through anything resembling conventional affection; it arrives through arguments, threats, profanities and, occasionally, the reluctant acknowledgement that losing someone might hurt considerably more than expected. It…
Fame has a peculiar way of turning visibility into vulnerability, and few understood that contradiction quite as painfully as Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy. Long before her marriage to John F. Kennedy Jr. made her one of the most photographed women in the world, Carolyn had built a career at Calvin Klein, working in an industry where image,…
What happens when the person you’ve fallen in love with is also someone the entire world believes it owns? In Ryan Murphy’s Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette, the intoxicating romance between America’s closest equivalent to royalty and the fiercely independent woman who captured his heart becomes an increasingly heartbreaking examination of…
What if the secret to a happy marriage wasn’t finding the perfect man, but having one made to order? It’s a wonderfully ridiculous proposition at the heart of Wicker, a deliciously peculiar romantic fable that finds unexpected tenderness beneath its twisted sense of humour. Directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, adapting Ursula Wills‘ short…
Thanks to Paramount Pictures Australia, we have 5 double in-season passes (Admit 2) to Ebenezer, the new gothic Christmas tale starring Johnny Depp, in Australian cinemas from November 12th, 2026. This November, Johnny Depp is Ebenezer Scrooge. The name you know, the story you don’t. From Ti West, EBENEZER also stars Rupert Grint, Andrea Riseborough,…
Grief rarely follows a predictable path, and sometimes the people who offer us the greatest comfort are also those who remind us most painfully of what we’ve lost. In Mouse, the intimate and emotionally resonant coming-of-age drama from filmmakers Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson, the complexities of loss, friendship and identity unfold against the backdrop…
Grief has a peculiar way of making the world feel as though it has stopped turning, even as everything around us continues moving forward. For teenagers, whose lives are already defined by the uncertainty of growing up, losing someone who helped shape their identity can feel particularly cruel. It’s this uncomfortable intersection of adolescence and…
There is a long legacy that Godzilla Minus Zero must live up to. The original Japanese Godzilla film was released in 1954, over 70 years ago. According to the VFX team for this 39th film, Godzilla Minus Zero: Godzilla was born on the silver screen in 1954, created specifically to be experienced in a cinema….
Passion might be what brings people together, but it doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll get along. In the wonderfully chaotic world of grassroots sport, where personal ambitions collide with club politics, financial pressures and the occasional bruised ego, sometimes the greatest achievement isn’t winning a championship, but simply keeping the doors open. It’s this beautifully contradictory…
Hollywood has always been a town where secrets are currency, reputations are fragile, and the right person can make even the most inconvenient problems disappear. And if there’s one man who knows how to navigate its seedier corners, it’s Cliff Booth. Seven years after Brad Pitt won an Academy Award for his effortlessly cool portrayal…
Few things are quite as liberating as saying what everyone else is thinking but would never dare admit aloud. For Nikki Glaser, that freedom has become something of a professional calling card, with the Emmy-nominated comedian establishing herself as one of stand-up’s most unapologetically candid voices, turning deeply personal insecurities, uncomfortable truths and society’s often…
Few things are quite as entertaining as watching people who have absolutely no idea what they’re doing enthusiastically convince themselves otherwise. It’s an art form that Hamish Blake has practically perfected throughout his career, and in Stan’s delightfully chaotic new comedy series Unskilled Adult, the Australian entertainer puts his considerable confidence, questionable practical abilities and…
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…
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…
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….
