Film & TV

Blackhat opens with exhilarating paranoia. The camera soars, impossibly, through a computer chip, where tiny lights flicker with an ominous trill. We are watching a hack that triggers the overheating of a nuclear plant in China and nullifies the warning signs. People die because of a series of numbers. A similar but harmless breach is…

Icon film distribution has announced that the world premiere of their Australian drama Last Cab to Darwin will be held at the Sydney State Theatre on June 6th 2015. And cast and crew from the film will be in attendance at the premiere. In addition, it’s inclusion in the Sydney Film festival program has also been…

This marks the final week The Late Show With David Letterman will be on the air with new episodes, bringing an end to over 20 years of nightly television tradition in the iconic Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York City, and a television career spanning 35 years. Having watched the show since it first arrived…

Just over a month since declaring he was leaving the project, director David Lynch has rejoined the Showtime Network’s Twin Peaks revival. Lynch had originally left the project after disputes over the series’ budget, but after negotiations with Showtime, and a campaign by Twin Peaks’ original cast, Lynch confirmed his return to the series via…

  As of Sunday evening, the mega five stop WHONIVERSE Australian tour wrapped up with a decently attended event at Adelaide’s Town Hall. The crowd may have been smaller than that of Melbourne (held the day previous), but as the guests and fans noted throughout, the grandeur and general historic ambience of the venue and setting…

The CeBit Australia Expo at Sydney Olympic Park brought together some of the best technology exhibitors from Australia and abroad who are looking at making their presence felt in the Australian technology scene. From electric cars, drones, soccer playing robots and wearables, here are our four best stalls from the expo. Tesla The star and…

This marks the final week The Late Show With David Letterman will be on the air with new episodes, bringing an end to over 20 years of nightly television tradition in the iconic Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York City, and a television career spanning 35 years. Having watched the show since it first arrived…

There will be many adjectives thrown about when it comes to describing Mad Max Fury Road and I can guarantee you that all of them will be accurate. Breathtaking, explosive, relentless, spectacle, intense, awesome, mind-blowing, and even epic. This film lives up to all of those and quite possibly does the impressive job of surpassing…

Roadshow Films have released the new trailer for the forthcoming dramatic comedy film The Intern starring Academy Award winners Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables, Interstellar) and Robert De Niro (Raging Bull, Silver Linings Playbook) and this time it’s Hathaway who gets to play boss. Oscar nominated and award winning director Nancy Meyers (It’s Complicated, Something’s Gotta…

Doctor Who fans have been revelling in the fact they’ve had Doctor number 11 himself, Matt Smith, in the country with two previous companions (Alex Kingston and Freema Agyeman), meeting fans, partaking in various Tim Tam slams and generally being a cool dude. The Hub Productions’ WHONIVERSE fan meet and greet tour has been and…

There aren’t a lot of films that could knock a Marvel flick off off their perch and in such a timely manner no less. But in only it’s third week since opening, Age of Ultron has been relegated to second spot as the sequel to 2012’s comedy smash Pitch Perfect 2 takes home an impressive $9.4…

Today the iconic St Kilda film festival released its 10 day program. The festival will showcase 100 of Australia’s top short films, music videos, archival screenings, youth programs, an extensive filmmaker development program and highlights from the internationally acclaimed Palm Springs International ShortFest. This year the festival will feature special events including a screening of…

Episode 1: The force gets ahead of itself While anticipation mounts for Episode VII’s release in December, Disney are busy preparing two stand-alone Star Wars films, as well as Episode VIII (2017). Apparently they’re no longer able to produce a franchise one film at a time. The first stand-alone, Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One (2016),…

The Golden Age Cinema in Sydney is set to become a haven for literary lovers and film aficionados alike, as they present a program full of films adapted from and inspired by some of the best books of recent history. First cab off the rank is a special appearance by author and illustrator of All…

Curious Cartel is a relatively new film experience, and on Saturday I got to see what all the fuss was about surrounding their new event Popcorn Therapy. Here’s the jist of Popcorn Therapy – a secret screening of a secret film is held somewhere in a secret location within Sydney… secretly. You know nothing of the…

  Good news, horror fans. The rumour mill has been thrown back into overdrive with 28 Days Later writer and Ex Machina director Alex Garland recently revealing that he has written a story for the film’s long-awaited new installment, 28 Months Later. Dropping the little news nugget while promoting Ex Machina, Garland says that while his involvement in the horror series will…

We’re now at the halfway point of season five, and things are really kicking into high gear. Storylines from all areas of Westeros, and Essos, are being born, nurtured and steered on what is sure, in many cases, to be a disastrous course. Much of the focus of this episode wasn’t in Westeros, but across the…

It’s official: the resuscitation of beloved sci-fi series The X-Files will take place in January 2016. US network Fox has announced that the six-episode revival of the beloved cult series will begin on Sunday, 24 January 2016, with the second episode screening on Monday, 25 January, and then continuing on for four more weekly episodes….

Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story is a food documentary that will leave you being unable to look at your fridge and food in the same way again. Documentary filmmakers, Jenny Rustemeyer and Grant Baldwin have put together a tight and informative look at the issue of food waste. It offers some eye-opening statistics…

If you fancy yourself as something of a cinematic thrill seeker Golden Age Cinema have the perfect film for you. The theatre is set to host both the Australian premiere and ONLY Sydney screenings of the remastered re-release of the 1981 film Roar, a film that set the bar absurdly high for injuries on set….

So you’ve got your SFF Flexipass but you’re having a hard time choosing between all the hundreds of films that are part of the 62nd Sydney Film Festival. Not to worry, there are many necessary guides out there – like this one – to help you sift through the often overwhelming amount of choices here….

Travis Fimmel as the legendary Ragnar Lothbrok in Vikings. Warning: This article contains Season 3 spoilers! What a journey the Vikings have been on in Season 3, sailing to England, back to Kattegat and then to Paris, led by protagonist Ragnar Lothbrok, portrayed by Australia’s Travis Fimmel. Curious, tortured, ruthless Ragnar who will risk everything…

Girls just wanna have fun. Except that in the film, A Royal Night Out, those two ladies are Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret at ages 19 and 14, respectively. The film is a fun and warm-hearted historic romp that does feel like it’s being played a little too safe at times. On V.E. Day (8…

In the bustling city of Sapporo, Anna (Sara Takatsuki) sits alone and silently sketches the other, happy girls. Presumably they don’t have asthma, their parents are alive and, unlike her foster parents, they don’t keep them just for the tax benefit. After she has an attack that asthma cannot fully explain, her foster mother, Yoriko…

We’ve all had bad days, and on the eve of Alexander’s twelfth birthday he has had one of the worst days ever. To make it hurt just that little bit more, it seems his entire family is riding a wave of positivity and enjoying all the good things in their lives and unaware of how…

In a predictable display of dominance, Avengers: Age of Ultron has blitzed it’s competition in its second week. Earning $7.8 million the comic franchises latest venture has has brushed off the occasional bad review and proved that it is truly “the age” of comic movies. Unfriended, the innovative, out-of-left field horror flick has had a tremendous showing…

Hailing from the UK, The Glass Animals have already made a name for themselves in Oz and now the boys from Oxford are about to guest host Rage. Drawing inspiration from Electronica & Hip-Hop, The Glass Animals made waves down under last year with their debut album Zaba and subsequent tour. They managed to shoot…

The century is the 23rd and the world’s population is, for the most part, impoverished. In an effort to escape the rat race, the poor take jobs in dangerous extraterrestrial industries, of which even the commute, via a process of data transmission known as slipstreaming, is treacherous. Whit Carmichael (Daniel MacPherson) is one such worker….

They are back, pitches. Whether you invited them or not. As Pitch Perfect 2 opens, the Barden Bellas are at the zenith of competitive acapella group achievement, having dominated the scene imperiously since capturing the national title for the first time three years prior. However, a wardrobe malfunction of Janet-Jackson-circa-Super-Bowl-XXXVIII proportions during a televised performance,…

The TARDIS is landing in Australia this week – The Hub Productions’ huge Doctor Who event, ‘Whoniverse’ kicks off in Sydney on Saturday night before heading around the country to venues in Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. Fans will have the opportunity to meet the 11th Doctor Matt Smith, plus beloved companions Karen Gillan (Amy…