Film & TV

Online streaming service Stan have launched all 236 episodes of Friends in HD and to celebrate they are bringing something pretty darn special to Sydney. From Monday 5th October a two-week pop-up will be located near Hyde Park in the CBD, recreating the iconic Central Perk café, with free entry and free coffee. The Central…

Sometimes described as a loose adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear, Empire is a drama series that follows the power struggle that ensues when gangster turned hip-hop mogul Lucious Lyons (Terrence Howard) is diagnosed with ALS. Faced with only a few months left before the disease kills him, Lucious pits his children against each other in…

Roadshow Home Entertainment are bringing DC Comics’ TV universe to your living room this September with the triple release of The Flash (Season One), Gotham (Season One) and Arrow (Season Three) on DVD and Blu-ray. All three DC shows have proven a hit with TV audiences around the globe with season renewals debuting in the…

Watch our exclusive two part interview with Canadian actor Christopher Heyerdahl, who talks about Supernatural, Stargate and his most recent work in Hell on Wheels. We get the latest on the new season, we find out more about what its like to film in Calgary and much more. Watch the full interview here, filmed at…

In our continuing exclusive interview series with Vikings actor Clive Standen, filmed at Oz Comic-Con over the weekend, we chat about one of his most recent roles – appearing as Ed Viesturs in the blockbuster Everest. He talks about filming in difficult weather conditions – not unlike that of his work on Vikings – and how he…

Over the last few years there has been a steady rise in the popularity of the pop culture convention. Oz Comic Con Sydney was held over the weekend and we went along to check out the movie and TV star guests, the wares on sale by various exhibitors and artists and the ever increasing numbers…

When her heart is stolen by a seductive stranger, a young woman is swept away to a house atop a mountain of blood-red clay: a place filled with secrets that will haunt her forever. Between desire and darkness, between mystery and madness, lies the truth behind Crimson Peak. From the imagination of director Guillermo del…

Actor Jim Beaver – best known for his work on the series Supernatural and Deadwood – talks exclusively to The Iris about his role in the upcoming thriller Crimson Peak, and working with director Guillermo del Toro on the project – alongside the likes of Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska and Charlie Hunnam. Watch the…

Over the last few years there has been a steady rise in the popularity of the pop culture convention. Oz Comic Con Sydney was held over the weekend and we went along to check out the movie and TV star guests, the wares on sale by various exhibitors and artists and the ever increasing numbers…

Following the critical success of the new film Steve Jobs at the Telluride Film Festival, giving Fassbender in particular a pile of Oscar buzz, a new trailer has been released for Australian audiences. Watch it here: https://youtu.be/nCd4UTDrMHw Steve Jobs will be released in Australian cinemas in January. ———- This content has recently been ported from its original…

The 24th James Bond adventure is on its way with Daniel Craig at the helm taking the franchise further with Spectre. On set footage has been released, with a great preview of Bond in the snowy mountains of Austria in what looks to be a staple action scene for the film.

Netflix has analysed its global streaming data across the debut seasons of some of their most popular programs, and have found some trends that help to answer one interesting statistical query: when do viewers go from casual watchers to binge/addicted/hooked fans of a new TV series. In effect, the studies pinpointed where at least 70%…

Oh you like Korean cinema? Me too! You like violent Korean cinema? Yes please, me too! Have you seen any of Kim Ki-Duk‘s films? Me neither. When I read that he had directed 20 features and had received the Cannes Lion a couple of years back, I felt like I might be missing out on…

It’s time to grab a box set and catch up on some of the best shows on the box with this week’s DVD releases.

If Quentin Dupieux can make Rubber, a film about a tyre work, then I figured that this one that is about a person was bound to be gold. People are way more interesting than tyres! He really did make a film about a tyre (I’m not being weird… he is) and I’ve been told it’s great. But…

In part one of our interview with Vikings actor Clive Standen, we talk about his first ever trip to Australia for Oz Comic-Con. We find out what Aussie actor Travis Fimmel (also from Vikings) recommended he do while in the country.

When the red band trailer for Dude Bro Party Massacre III was first released it struck me, and it struck me extremely hard; I hadn’t laughed that loudly since my eighteenth re-watch of Tommy Wiseau’s The Room. Perhaps it isn’t a coincidence then, that Mark from the classic 2003 “disasterpiece” (AKA Greg Sestero) is in…

Moonlight Cinema returns this summer with a collection of old classics, new releases and cult favourites to cities all across Australia. The screenings are set in some of the countries’ largest outdoor cinemas and like previous years, the event offers food truck style foods and a Gold Grass packages for those who really want to up-scale their experience. Returning this…

Need to catch a TV break and don’t know what to watch? Simon takes us through his top picks on must-see shows and films for the week. Click through to see what’s showing for your entertainment needs. Wednesday 23rd September 2015 Scream Queens-Ten-9pm AEST Scream Queens is the latest series from television geniuses Ryan Murphy,…

IN THE HOUSE has returned to Sydney’s Event Cinemas on George Street for its third season. The series of classic films, returning to the big screen for one night only, runs every other Friday at the cinema and Season Three will also see the likes of The Dark Knight, Evil Dead 2, The Goonies in…

No Activity is Stan’s first original series centred around two detectives Hendy and Stokes, played by Patrick Brammall and Darren Gilshenan. With little glimpses into the supporting cast, the trailer gives us a peek into the dynamics of the show and the the humour we should expect from the 6-part Australian comedy series next month. No Activity is coming…

After its run on MTV in the US, the entire season of the TV adaptation of the classic Wes Craven film Scream is now coming to Netflix (including Australia and New Zealand) and will be launching exclusively on the service on 1st October as a Netflix Original Series. Check out a bit more about the show…

Staring music and spoken word legend Henry Rollins, He Never Died is exactly the kind of Grindhouse trash you want to see at an underground film festival. It’s like reading a comic book that was self published in the days where that meant a photocopier and a guillotine. There’s something old school about this whole…

M. Night Shyamalan has copped a lot of criticism in the previous years, some of it warranted, but most of it an overreaction to his missteps. Granted, The Last Airbender, After Earth, and Lady in the Water were particularly bad movies, right alongside the laughable The Happening which was even trashed by it’s lead actor…

Buffy might have been your favourite Vampire slayer, but now we get to meet your new favourite Witch hunter, and it is – perhaps unsurprisingly – Vin Diesel. The action star is fronting Breck Eisner’s new film The Last Witch Hunter, which will debut just in time for Halloween next month. Brought to us from the…

While nowhere near the numbers that Furious 7 and Jurassic World drew in, Universal’s impeccable year continues with Everest debuting at number one in Australia. earning itself $3.2 million over the weekend, Also in its first week in The U.S, it made a solid $7.2 million.

What an incredible cast Director Adam McKay has put together for his new film The Big Short: Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, Melissa Leo, Hamish Linklater, John Magaro, Rafe Spall, Jeremy Strong, Marisa Tomei and Finn Wittrock. To name but a few. And now there’s a first trailer to show this star crammed…

Infinitely Polar Bear was both written and directed by Maya Forbes. She seems to have a talent for speaking through children. Her track record of childhood perception is both entertaining and frustrating. Frustrating because sometimes it’s too right and sometimes it’s too simple. There’s nostalgia to this film. Set in the late 70s, the aesthetic…

Brisbane and Adelaide, you’re in luck. SUPANOVA have just revealed two of your favourite  magical, sci-fi characters will be joining an already huge line up of stars for this years highly anticipated event. And the celebrities are *drum roll please* Matthew  Lewis and Star Wars veteran actor Peter Mayhew!  That’s right,  Neville Longbottom and Chewbacca ,…

We are now in the second half of the first season of Fear the Walking Dead and the showrunners have decided to flip the script, jumping us ahead nine days to the creation of a safe zone, just one of 12 quarantined areas below the San Gabriel mountains – according to the military anyway –…