Film & TV

New Zealand has a hidden gem for movie lovers around the world. The Wellington-based Weta Workshop‘s filmmaking facilities has been listed as one of the top 10 film studio tours worldwide. They have  proven to be extremely popular with over 100,000 people attending the workshop since the beginning of April last year. The Guardian ranked the…

Children creatives, this one’s for you! ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) are on the lookout for young and inspired children to enter Australia’s student film competition, Screen It. This year’s theme, Mystery, will spark the creativity of school students around the country in making authentic and inventive films, animations and video games. Screen It…

Fuller House, the sequel series to ABC’s Full House, has been renewed for a second season. According to the show’s Twitter account, the new series will be coming “soon” on Netflix with no official date being announced. The series cast includes Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber reprising their roles as DJ Tanner, Stephanie Tanner…

Sam Heughan will be making his way to Sydney for a promotional tour ahead of Outlander‘s second season. The Scottish actor plays the role of Jamie Fraser and will be in Sydney on March 21 and March 22. In the second season of the series, Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Heugen) both arrive in France…

Monsters come in many forms. And next week, with the arrival of 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE from Executive Producer J.J. Abrams, we may just get to meet some of them. The film stars John Goodman alongside Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Gallagher Jr. and serves as a long awaited follow-up to the 2008 film Cloverfield. Just how…

Palace Cinemas will be hosting Academy Award-winning director George Miller and David Stratton in conversation on Wednesday 9 March at the Chauvel Cinema from 6:15pm as part of the French Film Festival. Just coming back from the Oscars, Miller is also president for this year’s Cannes International Film Festival and joining him will be film critic David Stratton….

The upcoming Australian film Spear follows Djal on a journey from the outback to the streets of Sydney in an exploration of a young Aboriginal man’s adherence to tradition in a modern world. Director/ choreographer Stephen Page transforms the distinctive choreography of his original 2000 theatre piece into a film adaptation with minimal dialogue and a combination of traditional and contemporary music….

Moonlight Cinema announced, on Monday, the triumphant return of $10 tickets all throughout March! To book your budget date night, all you need to do is sign up to Moonlight’s Cine Buzz membership on the Cine Buzz website. The month of March is your last chance to grab a picnic rug, grab a loved one,…

As reported by Variety earlier today, Ian McShane has been cast in the role of Mr Wednesday in the adaptation of Neil Gaiman‘s novel American Gods. The series follows the mysterious Mr Wednesday and an ex-con Shadow (played by Ricky Whittle), who become embroiled in a battle between the ‘old’ mythological gods and the ‘new’ gods of…

Following the successful multiplayer beta held in December 2015, PlayStation and Naughty Dog  have announced that March 5th will see the commencement of the Uncharted 4 Multiplayer Open Weekend.

If.com.au reports that Arrowhead, the sci-fi thriller described as “an interstellar Jekyll & Hyde”, has been picked up by StudioCanal for a release in Australia and New Zealand on June 9th. The film follows Kye, a prisoner of war who becomes stranded on a desert moon after a crash landing. Earlier this week, it was announced that Jesse O’Brien’s screenplay…

Following the success of 2HIGH and 2SEXY, ABC2 in collaboration with Triple J, will dedicate a week of programming to undressing our nation’s obsession with the way we look. Naked As will look at bodies in all their shapes and sizes from Sunday March 13 – Saturday March 19. Drawing on factual programming from Australia…

We got our first real taste of the Paul Feig-directed reboot of Ghostbusters, courtesy of the new trailer released this morning. The trailer wastes no time introducing and showing it’s four new leads – played by Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones – with the full film looking every bit as funny (and slime-filled) as…

Mad Max: Fury Road was arguably THE MOVIE of 2015. We named it our favorite film of 2015 and it’s easy to get excited about George Miller’s follow-up Mad Mad: The Wasteland. While all signs point to Charlize Theron‘s Imperator Furiosa being absent from this next film, Tom Hardy is set to reprise his role as…

This Friday, the In The House series at the Event Cinemas on George Street in Sydney will be screening the seminal teen classic The Breakfast Club (book tickets HERE). In anticipation, we looked back at the film to bring you these 10 facts that you may have never known about one of our favourite movies of…

Ahead of Tom Clancy’s The Division launch next week, Ubisoft have released a new PC trailer for the game, showcasing beautifully immersive features such as volumetric fog, dynamic global illumination, real-time environment destruction and realistic weather particle effects on taking place in its open world environment. The kicker? All in gorgeous 60fps. The Division will officially launch…

After years of failed attempts, the film adaption of Stephen King‘s The Dark Tower looks like it will finally enter production. Idris Elba is set to play the lead role, a gunslinger named Roland while Matthew McConaughey is attached to play his enigmatic nemesis. Nikolaj Arcel is directing the film after working together with King on the…

We’re practically counting the days before Marvel’s Daredevil returns for it’s second season and Netflix have released another trailer for fans to get excited over. Where the previous trailer focused on newcomer The Punisher (Joe Bernthal), this one is all about Elektra (Elodie Yung). Check it out below: Daredevil‘s second season launches through Netflix on the 18th of…

Musical and comedy group The Lonely Island are coming back to cinemas this year with the graciously-titled Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.  The film will go behind the scenes of the music industry as singer/rapper Conner4Real (Andy Samberg) faces a crisis of popularity after his sophomore album flops, leaving his fans, sycophants and rivals all wondering what…

While Doctor Who has found its next showrunner, the search for the Doctor’s next companion continues, with former-Eastenders star Rakhee Thakrar emerging as an early frontrunner. RadioTimes reported earlier today that Thakrar is on a shortlist of actresses being considered to fill the absence left by the departure of Clara (Jenna Coleman) at the end of the most-recent series….

English stand-up Eddie Izzard once famously joked about what Darth Varder and the stormtroopers would eat on board the iconic Death Star from Star Wars. In a routine titled Death Star Canteen, Izzard laid out a vision of sandwiches and coffee in a galaxy far, far away, not knowing that in 2016 the man behind Brisbane…

SXSW has announced that a work-in-progress cut of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s upcoming animated feature Sausage Party will be screened at the convention. Featuring voice talent from comedy actors like Kristen Wiig, Paul Rudd, Nick Kroll and Jonah Hill, Sausage Party is an R-rated comedy that follows one sausage’s journey to learn the truth about…

An online foodie film festival, ‘Feast on Film’  began streaming on demand yesterday and is running all month, as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). SBS On Demand, in partnership with MIFF, are dishing out the many flavours of the international food scene with ten award-winning feature documentaries, three Michel Roux Jr Programs, and a MIFF…

Fetch TV, Australia’s internet based subscription service is about to get a whole lot funnier as gets prepped for it’s latest addition, Comedy Central. Hitting Fetch exclusively on the 1st  of April, Comedy Central will deliver 24 hour laughs, all day every day. The 100% comedy dedicated channel will host a slew of comedy series from the U.S. such as…

The 9th Human Rights Arts & Film Festival (HRAFF) has announced a selection of highlights from its 2016 program, which offers an entertaining and innovative showcase of events that delve into diverse and powerful human stories. These are just a few sneak peaks from the creative program of film, arts, music and forums which opens on 5…

Charming, funny, poignant and so very British, The Lady in the Van is a wonderfully entertaining true story (of sorts) anchored by an unrelenting performance from Maggie Smith. Based on the memoir by playwright Alan Bennett, this quirky comedy soars when Smith’s titular lady is at her most cantankerous and the unlikely relationship Bennett shared with her…

Pixar’s upcoming Finding Dory debuted a brand new earlier today. The trailer showcases more of the beautiful animation we can expect from the film, and gives us more insight into the main storyline of the film – the quest for the forgetful Dory to find her parents. You might also learn a thing or two about…

Deadpool clearly doesn’t care what enters the box office at this point. Three new films opened last week but Wade still sits on top, earning another AU$4.4 million. This brings the worldwide gross to $609 million. Deadpool is now the third highest grossing R rated film of all time in the U.S as it draws…

Veteran director, writer and actor Jon Favreau is set to visit Sydney this month to promote the release of Disney’s new live-action take on The Jungle Book. Favreau will attend the Australian preview screening of The Jungle Book on Thursday 31 March followed by a live Q&A, as part of a two-day press tour. Faveau has a…

ABC and Screen NSW are set to team up to produce Australia’s first Virtual Reality development initiative. 360 Vision begins with an intensive one-day invitation-only lab at Carriageworks, the venue partner, to be held during Vivid Sydney in June. The lab will bring together screen content creators to experience the latest Virtual Reality content and technology….