Last weekend’s Writer’s Guild Awards saw Spotlight and The Big Short split the biggest honors of the night, while the final season of Mad Men received a farewell gift of Best Drama Series. Spotlight walked away with Best Original Screenplay while fellow Oscar-frontrunner The Big Short took Best Adapted screenplay. On the TV front, Mad…
HBO released a new teaser for their biggest series this morning. It’s a short but ominous and atmospheric teaser that runs through the many big deaths fans of the series have endured so far, and potentially hints at some yet to come. Potential spoilers. Check it out below: Game of Thrones returns in April 2016….
N.W.A have, is, and always will be integral to hip hop and it’s status as one of the most unique, and accessible, forms of self-expression in music. Birthed in the excessively rough neighbourhood of Compton, California, the group became a reference point for hip hop as a channel through which youth can make sense of…
“No one gets to clock out today, and hell, this is a story people are going to tell”. What a way to kick off the latter half of season 6. The Walking Dead has always been strongest when the crew are scattering smaller character moments within a big action set piece, and “No Way Out”…
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant has garnered accolades at the 2016 BAFTA awards – pushing the frontier-epic ever-closer to its anticipated Oscar win. The other big winner of the night was Mad Max: Fury Road, which took best Makeup and Hair, Costume Design, Editing and Production Design. Check out the full list of award-winners below: Best Film: The Revenant…
The director of the classic Australian horror film Wolf Creek is bringing new horror film The Darkness to audience this May. The Greg McLean-directed film stars Kevin Bacon, Radha Mitchell, Matt Walsh and Jennifer Morrison and centers on a family that returns home from a trip to the Grand Canyon – only to bring a malicious supernatural force along…
Following the success of New Year’s Eve and Valentine’s Day director Garry Marshall promises to again deliver big things for Mother’s Day with his winning storytelling style and an all-star cast. The film stars Kate Hudson, Jennifer Anniston and Julia Roberts and explores the very different relationships between mothers and their children. Check out the trailer below: Mother’s Day hits…
An evocative Claymation on breaking down barriers has seen Yianni Rowlands aged 15 win Trop Jr 2016. His film, Chess People, is set in an imaginary chess world where everything is split in two by a great wall and two boys either side of the wall protesting against a call for war. Tropfest Founder and Director, John Polson…
There’s a new trailer for The Huntsman: Winter’s War, starring Chris Hemsworth, Emily Blunt, Charlize Theron and Jessica Chastain. The sequel to 2012’s Snow White and The Huntsman will see Hemsworth and Chastain’s characters caught up in a war for domination between two queens. Check out the trailer below: The Huntsman: Winter’s War releases in Australian cinemas on…
Comedian Aziz Ansari’s has confirmed that a second season of his Netflix comedy Master of None is on the way. Netflix hasn’t spoken up about the length or when audiences can expect to see the series return yet but Aziz took to Twitter to share the news. Master of None Season 2 coming 2017. Thanks for…
That Quentin Tarantino is quite the unique film maker no? With a filmography spanning more than two decades, the 52 year old continues to make entertaining films that are nothing like anything else being made. One of these reasons may very well be his unflinching penchant for violence and its ability not only to progress…
Abbi and Ilana are back in the newest season of sometimes surreal, always on point TV series Broad City. And it’s just been confirmed by Comedy Central they’re green lighted for Season 4 and 5 as well. (Yass Gaga!) If the sneak peak of the first episode is anything to go by fans are in…
Netflix have released the first full trailer for the upcoming fourth season of House of Cards. From the looks of it, the latest season will continue all the stylish intrigue and drama that the Kevin Spacey-fronted series has become known for. Check it out below: Season 4 of House of Cards launches on March 4th. ———- This…
The return-date for Game of Thrones is creeping up on us but in the meantime HBO have released a slew of photos from the upcoming sixth season of the show. Those particularly-wary of spoilers may want to give the photos a miss but for others, check them out below. Game of Thrones returns on the 24th of April….
The Deadpool movie only landed on Australian screens a few days ago but it’s already shattered Aussie box office records, accounting for 78% of gross box office numbers on opening day. According to Fox, the movie raked in AUD$2.94M – making it the the 3rd biggest opening day in 20th Century Fox history. The Iris’ Carina Nilma said that “from…
A new trailer for Tina Fey’s WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT dropped over the weekend. In case you hadn’t heard of it, the Tina Fey-fronted comedy-war film sees Fey take on the role of a war correspondent in Pakistan and Afghanistan and is based on the book, The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Kim Barker….
Classic science fiction series Quantum Leap will make the jump to Blu-ray this March. Vision Entertainment is re-releasing the first season of the show on March 2, with future seasons expected to release later down the line. Quantum Leap originally aired on NBC in the United States and Network Ten in Australia and followed…
Travis Fimmel (Vikings, Warcraft ) will star in a new adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front, an anti-war film to be directed by Roger Donaldson (Smash Palace, The November Man). ScreenDaily broke the news that the Australian actor will play Captain Katczinsky in the film about four young German soldiers at the end…
Perhaps one of ABC’s cheekiest web series yet will be launched on iView next week. In a time of Abbotts and Turnbulls squabbling for that prized coffee mug that says World’s Best Prime Minister and in most circumstances failing, and a time of turmoil and unrest all over the globe a show like DAFUQ? can…
The first trailer for the star-studded thrillerOur Kind of Traitor went live last night and it looks to be a top notch espionage film. Based on the John Le Carré novel of the same name, the film stars Ewan McGregor, Naomie Harris, Stellar Skarsgård and Damian Lewis and follows an ordinary couple who get caught up in a dangerous…
Tropfest has today announced that Maya Newell, Director of the 2015 landmark feature length documentary Gayby Baby, will join Tropfest’s judging panel for short film’s night of nights. Newell will judge Tropfest’s 16 finalists alongside actor/director Mel Gibson (Braveheart, The Passion of Christ, Apocalypto), The Mentalist star Simon Baker, Rebecca Gibney (Packed to the Rafters and Wanted),…
Warner Bros have let loose the final trailer for the upcoming Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. The trailer spends a bit more time introducing us to Ben Afflecks‘ Bruce Wayne than previous trailers, with a little of Gal Godot‘s Wonder Woman and Jesse Eisenberg‘s Lex Luther thrown in for good measure. Check it out below:…
Following last year, the festival will be showcasing the film sequel of Spanish Affair 2 as this year’s opener. In the opening night of the film and party, audiences will find out why director Emilio Martínez Lázaro and stars Clara Lago and Dani Rovira have teamed together in making the sequel. It’s anticipated that it will make audiences…
There has been enough fuss over Johnny Depp going into Black Mass that the commercial reception of the film is pretty much locked in; the trailers released in the lead up have all signalled a substantial turn for Depp, whose biggest role in recent times has been as a highly exaggerated and energetic pirate. Any doubts…
ABC is partnering with US streaming platform Seeso to take the second series of Soul Mates global. Shooting has just begun on the second series of the show and ABC’s Head of Comedy, Rick Kalowski says: “It’s a thrill for ABC to be among SeeSo’s first international partners, especially on Soul Mates, which showcases some…
Showtime has announced a three-day music lineup from March 16-18 in celebration of the premiere of Cameron Crowe‘s new series, Roadies, as part of the 2016 South By Southwest Music, Film, and Interactive Festival. Roadies delves into the lives of people who live their lives on the road, all for the love of music; a…
Universal have released the first trailer for the third film in The Purge franchise, subtitled Election Year. Though the success of prior Purge films can probably be attributed more to their fascinating premise than their actual quality, it’ll be interesting to see where Election Year takes the series. Writer and director James DeMonaco is set…
Taking a lead on a new venture, creator of Hannibal, Bryan Fuller has been announced as the new showrunner of television series, Star Trek. Alongside Alex Kurtzman, he will also serve as an executive producer for the sci-fi reboot. “My very first experience of Star Trek is my oldest brother turning off all the lights in the…
The UK’s Channel 4 have announced they partnering with Fox Searchlight to co-financing Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. The news broke over at Deadline, who are also reporting that the film will be produced by Blueprint Pictures’ Graham Broadbent and Peter Czernin alongside McDonagh. Filming is expected to begin in April. McDonagh’s previous…
Fast and Furious fans, you may wanna keep a watch on this one! It’s been circling around the internet that Universal have offered Charlize Theron to play the new villain of the next Fast and Furious movie. Although negotiations have been made unclear, it’s been said that the studio are eager to add Theron to…
