Film & TV

After years of striving to reach her dream, Chelsey Crisp has finally found herself in a really good place – as the lead of the new movie In-Lawfully Yours while starring in ABC’s Fresh Off The Boat. This actress has been through it all and paved the way for a longstanding career. Crisp’s insider perspective into LA and…

Academy Award winning Actor Leonardo DiCaprio, The Lumineers, The Duffer Brothers and the cast of Stranger Things are coming to the White House lawn on the 3rd of October for President Barack Obama’s South by South Lawn (SXSL) Festival. The festival calls on every American to discover ways to make positive differences in the country….

Martin Freeman, best known for his work in Sherlock, Fargo and The Hobbit, is currently in Australia bringing to life a heart-wrenching zombie thriller. Cargo is based on a Tropfest short which garnered well over 10 million views online, and tells a harrowing tale of family love. Martin Freeman plays Andy, a father who has…

Ubisoft has released the newest trailer for Watchdog 2 inviting you to the Dedsec hacking team. Featuring new protagonist Marcus Holloway, the second season in the popular open world game will bring you to the other side of the conflict to take down a familiar Corporation. The Blume Corporation is back, with the new and…

Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe and Behaviour Interactive have finally announced Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade‘s official launch on PC, after initially being released in Early Access. The Games Workshop’s MMO will thrust gamers into a vicious battle between four factions, the Eldar, Chaos Space Marines, Orks and Space Marines. Players will work together to engage in battles and…

BlizzCon has announced Australia’s team of six Overwatch representatives that have been chosen to battle it out on the Overwatch World Cup stage. After taking part in qualifiers over the past month, Australia’s team will be joining over fifty countries and regions who will be competing in the Overwatch World Cup. Overwatch is a team-based…

Palace has confirmed it will open a 15 screen cinema complex at historic Pentridge Prison site in Coburg, Melbourne. The development is a part of the Shayher Group’s planned $2 million spend to reactivate the heritage building and restore the former jail’s towers. Her Majesty’s Prison Pentridge was first established in 1851 until it closed…

ABC2 have partnered with BBC to release the Doctor Who spin off series Class, written by award-winning author Patrick Ness (The Knife of Never Letting Go, A Monster Calls). The twelfth and current Doctor, played by Peter Capaldi, will make an appearance in the first episode of the double debut. Katherine Kelly (Mr Selfridge, Coronation Street)…

Today APRA AMCOS and the AGSC (Australian Guild of Screen Composers) have announced the nominees for the 2016 Screen Music Awards. Among the list are feature films, Oddball, The Dress Maker, and television shows Tomorrow When the War Began, and Here Come the Habibs. The Screen Music Awards aim to highlight the achievements of Australian screen composers who…

Canon Australia and National Geographic‘s partnership photography  docu-series, Tales By Light, will return for Season 2 in next month. A locally developed series, Tales By Light follows four master photographers as they travel around the world, and focuses on some of the humanitarian and moral dilemmas when faced with issues affecting communities from around the globe….

You may remember the case as it unfolded some years ago, however, Joe Cinque’s Consolation tells the true story of the death of Joe Cinque. In early 1997 Anu Singh, a law student at the Australian National University, confides in friends that she plans to kill herself to put an end to a mysterious illness….

Speaking to Dan Hennah, fresh off the set of Thor: Ragnarok at Village Roadshow studios in shiny Brisbane, we get to discuss his life making movie magic. Dan has designed sets for some of the biggest films of all time, Lord of The Rings, The Hobbit, Underworld and The Warriors Way. In fact, he won…

Rebellion is a five-part drama that tells the story of the violent birth of modern Ireland, exploring the emergence of a new state during one of the most disruptive and terrifying periods in history. The drama begins with the outbreak of World War One. As expectations of a short and glorious campaign are dashed, extremism…

Hold on to your textbooks kids, things are about to get serious at school. The teaser trailer for Fist Fight, a new Ice Cube comedy about teachers beating on each other, was released yesterday. Ice Cube and Charlie Day star as teachers who simply don’t get along. On the last day of school, Andy Campbell…

Wondering what titles to put on this years christmas list? Check out The Iris’ guide to exciting games that will be released in the next four months.  Virginia (PC, Xbox One, PS4) Friday, 23 September, 2016 Virginia is a single-player first-person thriller set in a small town. The game takes you along a missing persons investigation…

Janelle Monae, Octavia Spencer and Taraji P. Henson bring to life the largely unknown story of three African American women who made a significant contribution to NASA in the 1960s. The landmark film Hidden Figures has released its first trailer, which finally gives screen-time to the women who provided the raw computing skills and mathematics…

The DreamWorks/Paramount Pictures Co-production, Ghost in the Shell, starring Scarlett Johansson, has offered up a series of new 10-15 second trailers. While intriguing, these five separate short snippets are extremely difficult to digest. Hollywood’s live action remake of the popular Japanese manga series Ghost in the Shell follows Major (Scarlett Johansson), a cyborg police woman…

Say what you want about The Walking Dead, there’s few who could genuinely deny the show its enormous success; the powerhouse series has continued to effectively reinvent itself for the past six years and really justify its impressive numbers. Word has it that the TWD audience grew 27% globally between the fifth and sixth season,…

To celebrate the home release of Captain America: Civil War earlier this month, we caught up with actor Paul Rudd – who plays Scott Lang/Ant-Man/Giant-Man in the movie – to find his thoughts on the Marvel blockbuster – from his new suit, to joining the (almost) full gang for the first time: Scott Lang was…

I had the fantastic opportunity to chat with Sophie Hensser who plays Vivian in Nine Network’s Love Child TV Series. With season three wrapped up and released on DVD, we discuss how far the show and Sophie have come. From Sophie’s days on The Saddle Club to Home & Away and Underbelly, to her life growing up…

The first official trailer for the anticipated film Passengers, a romantic science fiction adventure starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt, has been released. The trailer depicts a future where humanity has made great advances in space travel and space transport. The Spaceship Avalon  soars silently through the emptiness of space on its 120-year voyage to a planet called…

Parrot has added two new Minidrone models to their ever-growing drone range, the Swing and the Mambo.

In what seems to be a very strange announcement, a Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 beta has been announced for PlayStation 4. We have to be honest, we didn’t really see that coming.

Gone are the days of catching them all in-game, it seems. Now, EB Games just gives you a damn code and you get a new Pokemon. The trials and tribulations of a Pokemon trainers are so crazy.

Twitter has revealed several changes that all Twitter users will be thankful for. Effective immediately, when you add photos, GIFs, videos, polls, or Quoted Tweets, that media will no longer count as characters within you Tweet. Thank. God.

Hot on the heels of our exclusive artwork reveal yesterday, the latest Dishonored 2 trailer has arrived. Titled ‘Creative Kills’,  it takes a look at several cool powers that players will be using within the game.

Fans of Arrested Development rejoice! Jeffrey Tambor has stated that a new season of the hit TV show may commence filming in January. Appearing on the Today show, Jeffrey Tambor was discussing his Emmy acceptance speech. The discussion eventually veered onto the eventual filming of season five of Arrested Development where the actor stated that “There’s always chatters to…

We hope you got your 3-Day Badges for PAX Aus because they have just sold out.

There’s some good news for people who are fans of picnics and films as Moonlight Cinema will be returning once again in the Summer of 2016/17 for its 21st season! People will have the opportunity to bring along their picnic rugs, enjoying the natural landscapes while watching their favourite flicks under the stars. Films on…

Australian streaming service Presto has some stellar titles to win over new subscribers from competing services like Stan and Netflix Australia. Next month, Presto will be launching plenty of movie and TV shows for your binge-watching pleasure, and some of them are sought-after titles you’d likely see on the Netflix U.S catalogue. For some who can’t decide what…