Film & TV

The trailer for Nerve, starring Emma Roberts and Dave Franco has arrived and it certainly looks like a fresh take on the current state of technological advancement and social networking. Nerve centres on Vee (Roberts), a high school senior, and Ian as they find themselves immersed in an online game of truth or dare. Starting out innocent, it…

Fresh off his role as Bruce Wayne in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Ben Affleck is kicking ass again, as the trailer for The Accountant  makes its way online. Affleck plays the title role of a mathematics wizard with OCD. His life entails doing accountant work for criminal organisations but when a client too good to pass…

If you’re one of the seven people who hasn’t seen Captain America: Civil War (I’m not judging, I had to find time as well), I will put it as simply as I possibly can. Black Panther tore the screen up. And now T’Challa, king of Wakanda is about to go from unknown to those not…

Presumably in an effort to shake things up in the already stagnant DC film stable, reports are surfacing that Zack Stentz (who has credits on Power Rangers and Thor) is working on a script for a Booster Gold movie. If you know anything about Booster Gold, you know that he doesn’t exactly fit in with…

This Friday at 7pm, the current In The House season at the George Street Event Cinemas in Sydney will come to an end with a special screening of the 1982 Sci-Fi classic Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. In anticipation of the screening, we’re looking back at the film to bring you nine facts…

New Line Cinema has released a new featurette ahead of the release of its upcoming supernatural thriller The Conjuring 2 called “Strange Happenings in Enfield”. The featurette explores the real story behind the movie which is released in Australian cinemas on 9th June. In the video, the real family who sought help from paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine…

British period crime drama series Ripper Street has had a bit of a rickety ride. The show was cancelled after 2 seasons only to be resurrected by Amazon Prime (with a little help from the BBC) for a third series. Which was then extended to a fourth and fifth, only for the fifth to then…

Kara Bertoncini hit the 2016 Logies Red Carpet and tried to calm Grant Denyer‘s nerves. It seemed the best way to do that was for Grant to impersonate a drunk Karl Stefanovic. Check out the video below: You can check out the rest of our Logies coverage here. ———- This content has recently been ported…

It’s quite clear that Benioff and Weiss are unperturbed about Game of Thrones (mostly) surpassing its source material, and so far it has proved to be more of a blessing than a curse. Now with 4 episodes to show, Season Six has been a solid season of surprising, though rapid, developments that leap forward to…

Duncan Jones hopes to give a new voice to fantasy films with Warcraft, the highly anticipated, big-budget epic that hits Australian theatres one month from today. Speaking at the recent global press conference for the movie in Los Angeles, the director referred to the Lord of the Rings trilogy by Peter Jackson as the “gorilla…

Season one of Fargo was an unexpected hit. Based on (and eventually connected to) the Coen’s Brothers’ 1996 crime film, it impeccably weaved black comedy, a gripping narrative, interesting characters and quite simply, beautiful cinematography to create a show that was by all accounts universally praised. It would come as no surprise when season two was…

The Iris has chosen this week’s must-see picks and here they are… Tuesday, 17th May Masterchef, Ch 10, 7:30pm AEST Join in and watch the best contestants cook up a dish using only popcorn. Sounds appetising. Wednesday, 18th May The Flash, Fox8, 7:30pm AEST Barry confronts an army of metahumans but is shocked when he…

Taika Waititi recently broke the New Zealand box office record for the highest-grossing film of all time with his new movie Hunt for the Wilderpeople which he wrote, directed and starred in. The previous box office record was set by another movie by him called Boy and you might recognise his other hits such as Eagle…

It’s a convoluted theory but it may very well be solid, as the folks over at Comic Book Movie.com aim to decipher who is directing the upcoming Captain Marvel movie. It started with The Wrap reporting on some tales they heard on the grapevine including Captain Marvel’s star and director. The main breakthrough was that the…

Though Stretch is a rather kinetic film – think an episode of Entourage on crack – and would’ve most likely come and gone in cinemas without much notice, there’s such an infectious energy to it all that you can’t help but feel disappointed that it wasn’t granted a larger release. The DVD market seems tailor…

Kathryn Bigelow, director of Zero Dark Thirty and The Hurt Locker, is turning her attention to the historic Detriot Riots, with English Actress Hannah Murray (Skins, Game of Thrones) in talks to play a key role in the untitled true crime drama. Though few details are known about the plot, and details of Murray’s specific role…

Arguably one of the worst-kept secrets of Star Wars: The Force Awakens was Daniel Craig‘s not-so-secret secret cameo. In case you missed it, the James Bond actor appears as a stormtrooper, codename JB-007, during Rey’s interrogation scene. Craig was among several notable stars to cameo as stormtroopers/glorified extras. A report via Making Star Wars this week…

Shockwave Entertainment this week announced the DVD release of their documentary David Bowie: The Man Who Stole the World, profiling the life and legacy of David Bowie.  The documentary features exclusive footage and interviews spanning Bowie’s lengthy career, as it reflects on Bowie’s artistic legacy and pays tribute to the life of the iconic performer. Check…

The sibling-duo filmmakers, Joe and Anthony Russo will be producing a new Chinese superhero franchise to target the film market in China. Furthermore, the Russo brothers have partnered-up with a Beijing-based production company to develop this new superhero franchise, with movie buffs around China already calling the project ‘Captain China.’ In March, they also managed…

Just as Disney Infinity 3.0 looked to be the recipient of some exciting prospects, Disney has announced that they are officially done with the video game.

As one of the biggest TV series on the planet, Game of Thrones has never really lacked imitators. There’s a lot of money in replicating what people like about Thrones. Though not all of them hit the mark, when they did, it’s meant that fans of the show have had a myriad of other entertainment options to tide them…

Joe Hill’s comic book series Locke & Key has been given another shot at a TV series, after previously coming so close that a FOX-pilot actually screened during the San Diego Comic-Con 2011. The issues with the first project were in part unclear, but the consequent scrapping of the series may have been for the…

Behold, the running gag of the gold chain. This episode sees Dinesh (Kumail Nanjiani) finally on a salary, treating himself to a delicate gold chain that he drapes around his neck. Gilfoyle (Martin Starr) spots it first and so begins a pun-tastic thirty-minute journey. The Pied Piper boys spare no expense at tearing the poor…

Following – arguably – the sole standout portion of Batman v Superman, Ben Affleck is set to be an executive producer on Justice League: Part One. Affleck will work with director Zack Snyder and screenwriter Chris Terrio on the script and weigh in on post-production as well as starring as Batman. Affleck has directing credits on…

The creative team behind last year’s sci-fi drama (or comedy, if you’re The Golden Globes) The Martian, are reuniting to adapt writer/director S. Craig Zahler’s novel Wraiths of the Broken Land.  Twentieth Century Fox has picked up the rights to the revenge-fueled Western, with Ridley Scott set to direct and Drew Goddard to pen the script. Zahler’s 2013…

Fans of Orange is the New Black, get hyped because there’s gonna be more drama, drama, drama – and of course, more funny shit to laugh about as well. With Netflix releasing the trailer on Tuesday for the popular TV series, the dramatic tone it paints is an intense one. Capturing the drama so perfectly…

It’s been reported that Johnny Depp will be the star of the upcoming film by Brett Ratner The Libertine. With a script written by Ben Kopit, the title has been inspired by french diplomat Dominique Strauss-Kahn‘s (Depp) story of how he was accused of sexual assault and was put under house arrest. In 2011, Strauss-Kahn had…

Idris Elba is in talks to star alongside Jessica Chastain in Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut Molly’s Game. Chastain is in negotiations for the lead role of Molly Bloom. Elba’s role is as of yet unknown. Stung after failing to make the Olympic team, Bloom decided to take a year off before law school and get a job as…

Breaking Bad‘s Bryan Cranston will be appearing in a 10-part anthology series titled Electric Dreams: The World of Philip K. Dick.  Cranston will also be an executive producer working alongside Battlestar Galatica‘s Ronald Moore and Justified‘s Michael Dinner. It was announced on Tuesday that Sony Pictures Television and British broadcaster Channel 4 will be partnering up with…

It’s been a long time coming but the Michael Fassebender-fronted historical thriller finally has its first full trailer. Based on Ubisoft‘s megapopular videogame franchise, Assassin’s Creed will see Fassbender take on the role of a man kidnapped by a sinister corporation and forced to relive the memories of his Spanish ancestor. Watch the trailer below: Assassin’s Creed…