Australian actor Travis Fimmel appeared on not one but two panels at San Diego Comic-Con over the weekend. Fimmel was there to promote season 4 of Vikings, currently filming in Ireland, as well as the upcoming fantasy film Warcraft, based on the highly popular game World of Warcraft, directed by Duncan Jones (Moon). Fimmel was…
Hello Asia! and The Iris are giving you the chance to win tickets to SMASH! 2015! Australia’s biggest Japaneses Pop Culture festival and convention in Sydney on August 8th and 9th. We are giving away 3 x weekend passes to three lucky people with the lucky top winner scoring 1 x Standing Section ticket to…
The response to Harrison Ford’s death defying Comic-Con appearance speaks to the popularity of his iconic character. Little surprise, then, that the Han Solo movie has been officially announced on starwars.com. Lawrence Kasdan (episodes V, VI and VII) and his son Jon Kasdan (Dawson’s Creek), have written the script about the formative years of everybody’s…
Starring legendary action superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger and Academy Award nominee Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine, My Sister’s Keeper), Maggie is a captivating drama about how far a father will go to stand by his daughter. Featuring an incredibly moving performance by Arnold Schwarzenegger like never before, the highly anticipated Maggie is available on Blu-ray™, DVD…
Don’t you just love Comic-Con? Someone has went and recorded the big reveal at the 20th Century Fox panel, Bryan Singer showing the audience a three-minute trailer for next year’s huge X-Men: Apocalypse. The trailer leaked onto the internet in a speedy fashion, and while it’s slightly off-centre and terrible quality (he/she obviously didn’t want…
A trailer for the new Universal Pictures film, The Dressmaker, has just dropped – and it looks amazing. Starring Kate Winslet, Liam Hemsworth, Judy David, Sarah Snook and Hugo Weaving, The Dressmakeris set in 1950’s Australia and filmed entirely in Victoria. It’s a bittersweet comedy-drama about love, revenge, and haute couture.
Of course someone was going to leak the trailer for the highly anticipated Suicide Squad, which screened at the San Diego Comic-Con recently. It seems all the hype around the cast, especially Jared Leto as Joker, will only get more frenzied as the release date looms closer, with a chilling trailer that reveals this flock…
“You don’t owe this world a thing…you never did” A three-plus minute trailer for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice has debuted at this year’s Comic-Con and it’s a revealing look into the wider DC universe and just how they are going to make this whole thing work. There’s a bleak landscape, a cynical outlook,…
A clever takedown of reality TV and how superficial both on-screen and off-screen they can, UnReal is the latest catch from subscription service Stan and it has been receiving rave reviews from left, right, and centre. The excellent Constance Zimmer plays Quinn King, the boss of a The Bachelor-esque show behind-the-scenes, relying heavily on her…
Fear the Walking Dead the anticipated spin-off series that was inspired by The Walking Dead is almost here, and San Diego’s Comic-Con became the platform for the first full trailer from AMC. Details already leaked earlier this year indicate that the series will be a prequel of sorts to The Walking Dead, detailing the spread…
Let’s get one thing straight. Dirty Bomb ain’t easy to get a hang of. Indeed, Splash Damage (Quake Wars, Brink) have created an FPS so visually similar yet entirely different to most titles in the genre that you’d be a fool for walking in with your Call of Duty swagger. The very tutorial warns you…
AMC has released the full trailer for season 6 of The Walking Dead at the recent Comic-Con, showing us over 4 minutes of footage from what will undoubtedly be a season fraught with tension as Rick’s aggression and restlessness continues to divide the community of Alexandria, and his own group. Throughout the trailer we catch…
For another year, the diversity found in Scandinavian cinema is being celebrated across Australia with the Scandinavian Film Festival. The festival has currently began in Sydney and Melbourne and will be kicking off in other major Australian cities throughout this month. To learn more about the evolution of the festival and what we can expect…
I Am Big Bird profiles Caroll Spinney, the 80-year-old puppeteer who has been behind Sesame Street’s Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch since the show’s first season. Relying heavily on Caroll’s incredible archive of home videos dating back to the 1950s, I Am Big Bird captures how the love radiating from Caroll has created a…
When faced with the challenge of representing over 20 years of the evolution of “French Touch”, a music genre inspired by American Garage, it can be difficult to know where to start. Directed by french auteur Mia Hansen-Love and co-written with her DJ brother Sven Love, Eden is somewhat an autobiographical film taking inspiration from…
Daft Punk’s 2006 directorial debut Electroma is a step away from previous pop- film collaborations such as Discovery 2003 to a more surreal and conceptual journey. Running for 74 minutes without dialogue, Electroma follows the journey of a robot duo who try to achieve humanness. If there was any doubt that the robots desired to…
I think I was amongst many confused fans after watching X-Men: Days of Future Past last year upon seeing Anna Paquin’s name so high in the credits, especially given that I’d only seen the back of Rogue’s head once throughout the entire duration of the film. As soon as I got home, I ran to my computer…
There’s something intrinsically human about the idea of wanting to change the past. That idea that if we had a time machine, we would right all the wrongs and do it all differently. Maybe that’s what makes it so captivating on the screen – the articulation of our wildest fantasies out into some tangible reality….
In the year of the franchise, where three films have already topped $40 million in the Australian box office (in 2014, not a single film achieved the same), it was refreshing to see a film come out of nowhere that was as daring and original as Kingsman: The Secret Service. While the title brought back…
It’s almost impossible to write a review without the series Fortitude without using the word “surprising”. A lot. Every aspect of this show comes as a surprise, from the twists and turns within every episode, to its very existence. It’s one of those shows that has come out of nowhere to captivate everyone who watches…
So let’s get one thing straight from the get-go with this film, this is a movie about a bunch of “male entertainers” (aka strippers) so it’s a given that it’ll be a basic story and be overloaded with a lot of attractive semi-naked men in it. If you’re coming for anything more meaningful than that,…
With its launch on Thursday (23 July), the 8K Radius Film Series will be premiering at Lido Cinemas, presented by director Clayton Jacobson and co-presented by the City of Booroondara. The series entails mini-documentaries that showcase the lives of everyday people and takes a look at their lives in the Lido community. Jacobson took the time to…
Making her screen debut at at the Melbourne International Film Festival and on ABC Television, Lally Katz will be starring in the film adaptation of her one-woman show, Stories I Want to Tell You in Person. The film adaptation of her play will be screening this August. The production of the play follows a modern-day woman’s quest of having…
A hit with both audiences and critics at film festival’s such as Sundance, Cannes, and most recently Sydney Film Festival, the very in-demand Dope will be released through Sony in cinemas around Australia on August 20th. In Dope, Malcolm (Shameik Moore) is carefully surviving life in a tough neighbourhood in Los Angeles while juggling college…
It took another new addition to an iconic 20+ year old franchise to dethrone Jurassic World, but it wasn’t the opening we were expecting. Terminator: Genisys hit theaters over the weekend and while it enjoys its number 1 spot, it has some impressive competition nipping at its heels. Opening with a less that stellar $4.7 million,…
Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has announced what is their biggest program to date, and possibly the biggest any film festival in Australia has seen. The forthcoming event will feature an almost overwhelming 370 films in total, spread across it’s duration from July 30th to August 16th. This total includes 28 world premieres and 163…
Hey there childhood, how you doing? Did you know that there is finally going to be a film based on pretty much every book of the Goosebumps series? The first full trailer for the long anticipated Goosebumps film has been released, and it’s full of footage that references some of the most classic novels in…
Simon brings us his latest picks for free-to-air and Foxtel this week! Wednesday 8th July 2015 State of Origin-Nine-7.30pm AEST It’s state against state and mate against mate as the NSW Blues and Queensland Maroons take to the field for the final match in this year’s State of Origin series. With both sides having a…
Bill Bryson’s bestselling book, A Walk in the Woods, has been turned into an upcoming film and will be released across Australian cinemas on the 3rd of September, 2015. Ahead of this, there will be preview screenings in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in August, where Bill Bryson himself will hold exclusive Q&A sessions in celebration of its…
Following its world premiere at the 2015 Sydney Film Festival, Icon Film Distribution proudly announces its latest feature, Last Cab to Darwin, will be screening exclusively in Brisbane with director Jeremy Sims attending the event for the first stop in its national tour on the 12th of July. Australian screen icon Michael Caton, who will also be attending, gives the…
