Film & TV

The infamous slayings of London’s Ripper Street are set to come to an end with Amazon confirming that the fifth season of the BAFTA award-winning crime series will be its last. Filming on the final season has begun in Dublin with Joseph Mawrie (In the Heart of the Sea) returning as Detective Jedediah Shine alongside the rest of the series regular…

Annabel Wallis, known for her work in Peaky Blinders and horror flick Annabelle, is set to play an Archaeologist in Universal’s upcoming reboot of The Mummy. She joins Sofia Boutella and Tom Cruise with Alex Kurtzman set to direct. Castings aside, little is known about the film – though it is expected to tie into Universal’s shared universe of monster movies and be tonally-different…

In the new documentary The Smart Studios Story, making its world premiere next week at SXSW in Austin Texas, Director Wendy Schneider takes a look back at the legacy of the legendary Madison, Wisconsin recording studio founded by Butch Vig and Steve Marker: Smart Studios. We caught up with Wendy ahead of the premiere to find out…

Australia’s most popular video on demand service is now available to owners of 4th generation Apple TVs. According to ABC Head of TV Strategy and Digital Products, Rebecca Heap, “we’ve had strong audience demand for iview on the new Apple TV and have built an experience that makes it easier than ever to explore and watch the ABC’s…

After a number of behind-the-scenes stills and a teaser or two, the full trailer for the upcoming sixth season of HBO’s Game of Thrones is here. As far as trailers go, it’s one of their best. With the series set to overtake the George R. R. Martin‘s books this season, there are a lot of little details…

Last year, the breathtaking Australian film The Daughter made its debut at the Sydney Film Festival, and later this month, the film is finally seeing the wide release it deserves (read our interviewer’s four and a half star review of the film HERE). The film is based on Director Simon Stone’s adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild…

“In the beginning … the angel Lucifer was cast out of Heaven and condemned to rule Hell for all eternity. Until he decided to take a vacation….” That’s the opening title cards for the new Fox series Lucifer, a clever show that combines the drama procedural with elements of comedy, psychology and a dash of…

Acclaimed Japanese actor, Beat Takeshi Kitano has joined the cast of the upcoming Ghost in the Shell adaptation.  Kitano joins Scarlett Johansson and director, Rupert Sanders in the live-action version of the popular anime series. Kitano will play Daisuke Aramaki, the founder and leader of the elite unit Section 9 tasked with protecting the world from the…

Long running video game series Thief is set to receive a movie adaptation courtesy of Straight Up Films, Roy Lee and Adrian Askarieh  and screenplay writers Adam Mason and Simon Boyes. Thief tells the story of Garret, who is inducted by a secret society and tasked with putting his very unique set of skills into practice. The…

When Sony and Marvel reached an agreement that allowed Spider-man to appear in the MCU, plans for a Venom movie were scrapped. Now the project is back on track with Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach producing and Dante Harper writing the script. Venom won’t be part of the deal that saw Spidey get a spot in the…

That ominous feeling is there all throughout “Not Tomorrow Yet” for a reason, as a cliffhanger ending ramps up the tension for next week and prepares for potential heartbreak as The Walking Dead continue a strong season 6. It’s been a big past couple of episodes on The Walking Dead, first with that giant, world-expanding…

Tim Burton‘s film adaption of bestselling book Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is set to hit theaters in September and distributor Fox have released a trio of stills for the film. According to Burton, he was “immediately intrigued by the haunting and mysterious pictures in Ransom Rigg‘s novel and knew I wanted to tell the…

Information Security experts warn that a new OS X Ransomware has targeted Apple Mac users with malicious software that will hijack their computer and demand that a payment is made for devices to be unlocked.

It’s early days on this news but it looks like Arrow star Stephen Amell has confirmed that he’ll be making his first trip to Australia as part of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows press tour. Amell revealed the trip, along with the cancellation of his upcoming appearance at the Birmingham-based City of Heroes…

There are plenty of reasons to be excited about the upcoming Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: Ben Affleck‘s more comic-inspired take on The Dark Knight,  the bold premise, the rapid expansion of the shared canvas upon which DC’s superhero films are set to take place. However, there are also a lot of reasons to be concerned….

Less than a day after news broke that The Conjuring 2 screenwriter Eric Heisserer had joining the adaption of Neil Gaiman‘s long running comic series, news has broken that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is parting ways with the film. Gordon-Levitt and screenwriter David Goyer were regarded as the major creative figures behind recent efforts to free the film from ‘development-hell’ and move…

The Michael Fassbender-fronted adaption of Ubisoft’s historical open-world video game series isn’t due till December but 20th Century Fox and New Regency have already working towards releasing a sequel, The Tracking Board reports. It’s hard to know what to expect from Assassins Creed. Though we’ve gotten a few stills here and there from the film, no official trailers have yet…

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. fans will be relieved to hear that the series has been renewed for another year. Despite the series’ rocky reception both in the States and abroad, it’s made some significant contributions to the greater Marvel Cinematic Universe – from introducing the superpowered Inhumans to continuing the fight against terrorist organization Hydra started in Captain…

Five movies to see after Pride & Prejudice & Zombies – P&P&Z is coming out quite soon and a feature pulling together recommendations of similar adaptions blur the lines between fantasy, horror and historical fiction Van Helsing This Hugh Jackman-led horror-action flick blends together the stories of horror-fiction’s greatest monsters from Dracula to Frankenstein’s monster. It’s a little…

Tina Fey and Margot Robbie are doing a lot of promotional interviews for the upcoming Whiskey Tango Foxtrot this week but in a new video released by Paramount they turn the tables on the journalists by conducting their own interviews. It’s a pretty fantastic clip, check it out below: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot hits Australian cinemas 12 May 2016. ———-…

The latest season of House of Cards was launched on Netflix on Friday. It’s been a long, cold year waiting for this season so if you need a quick recap read on. If not, skip ahead to the next paragraph. Simplified: Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey), who after knocking out Walker had a tough time with…

Twitter has launched its Moments feature in Australia on Wednesday, offering users a dedicated feed of the latest breaking and trending news. On Twitter’s website, iOS and Android apps, the Moments button shows up as a lightning bolt in the top menu bar, between the ‘Home and Notifications’ tabs. Using a narrative format with a…

Big news for American Horror Story fans this morning with Lady Gaga confirming in an interview with New York City radio station Z100 that she’d return to Ryan Murphy‘s horror anthology in 2016. Gaga joined the series to headline last year’s American Horror Story: Hotel as the enigmatic Countess to fill the void left by Jessica…

Netting over $2 billion in the box-office, Star Wars: The Force Awakens was one of, if not the, biggest movie of last year. For such a big release, it only seemed right to go see it on one of the biggest screens in Sydney – the Moonlight Cinema. Revisiting Episode 7 – this time in a larger,…

When it comes to modern crime thrillers, film sometimes has trouble competing with television. Each year sees dozens of TV series – prime-time, cable and otherwise – tackle the genre and for a film to really stand out against this herd and compete with stuff like True Detective or Luther, it has to go big or go home….

The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival announced its last Conference Keynote featuring Academy Award-nominated actress and activist Ellen Page and Ian Daniel, co-creators of the new documentary series Gaycation. Page’s body of work toggles between independents and tentpoles and she is now increasingly stepping behind the camera as a producer. Page and Daniel will…

In terms of Coen brothers fare, Hail, Caesar! stands as one the duo’s most carefree affairs. Doing away with a cohesive narrative and firing on cylinders that are very much their own, the film is sure to tickle the funny bone of die-hard Coen brothers fans but likely to polarise general audiences who will attend…

Spoilers ahead: This article discusses events from episodes one and two from Vikings season four as well as past events from the series. Last night’s episode of Vikings, the second of the brand new season, was entitled “Kill the Queen” and we learned that it was Kwenthrith, the Queen of Mercia (Amy Bailey) whose life…

With the return of the Oscars, Sydney Opera House’s fourth All About Women festival returns on Sunday 6th March, and has created three fictional trailers for films “you probably won’t be seeing this summer” – films that would pass the ‘Bechdel test’. The Bechdel test, a benchmark developed by American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, judges how much…

This year’s annual Gold Coast Film Festival (running in its 14th year)  will consist of 38 films from 15 different countries. The festival has also secured six Australian Premieres and seven Queensland Premieres from 31 March – 10 April.  The Festival will offer films that have been selected from Queensland and around the world, ranging…