Joss Whedon’s The Avengers: Age of Ulton is going to be met with alarmingly high expectations, especially with how successful and acclaimed the last Avengers film was. Marvel’s big gun will be hitting up cinemas worldwide come May 1st, and the world has been blessed with another look at the very big, very loud superhero…
Few films of recent years have had ingredients for wonder so specific as Birdman. Michael Keaton portraying a washed up, former comic book star trying to revitalise his career in an inventive script co-written and directed by the man who brought us Biutiful; the potential for amazement is through the roof and somehow, the film…
No matter what you think of the station, Triple J has never been a station to shy away from being the equivalent to the rambunctious rebel that’s chewing gum in an upper-class high school, giving off too many pieces of music trivia that you care about. What it did do for many of us music…
Today in Hollywood, the winners of the 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards were announced at the Beverly Hilton, in a televised award show with Amy Poehler and Tina Fey hosting for the third and final time. As usual, the pair delivered a hilarious opening monologue that took aim at everything from North Korea (a popular topic of…
Ahead of announcing the complete festival lineup on February 3rd, the 22nd South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival has started rolling out a list of the screenings which will be spread across Texas come March. This year, SXSW has announced their 2015 Opening Night Film, and world premiere BRAND: A Second Coming, by…
As they wrap up another year of slaying the Golden Globes, the much adored duo of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler bring their dynamism to the bring screen in upcoming Universal Pictures film Sisters. Universal have released a first-look trailer for the Jason Moore directed film, and it’s every bit as hilarious as you would…
The British Academy Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) have now announced the long list of nominees for the 2015 award ceremony, which will be taking place on Sunday February 8th. Ahead of the pack is Wed Anderson and his exceptional The Grand Budapest Hotel with 11 award nominations, beating both Birdman and The Theory of…
Australian zombie flick Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead may seem like your standard post-apocalyptic zombie film, but this trailer is telling us that it’s something much more than that. Made possible by the wonders of crowd-funding, the film is the debut feature from Australia’s Roache-Turner brothers: Kiah (writer-director) and Tristan (writer-producer-production designer), and is quite…
A&E’s Bates Motel has two excellent seasons to speak highly for the vision creators Carlton Cuse, Kerry Ehrin and Anthony Cipriano have used to turn this classic thriller into a prolonged and in-depth psychological timeline. Freddy Highmore’s Norman Bates and Vera Farmiga’s Norma Bates are put under the microscope and their unhealthy relationship has been…
Ah the dreaded work week has returned – though with it usually comes some pretty great television. Here are our picks for Free-To-Air TV in Australia for the next three nights: Monday Bones, Ch. 7, 8:30pm AEST Don’t miss the 200th episode of Bones, a Hitchcock inspired tale that borrows all the elements from classic Hollywood…
The hilarious Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are hosting the Golden Globe Awards for the third and final time tomorrow, and though we know they’ll be at their entertaining best – with recent subject matter like The Interview giving them plenty of material – the question really is: who will the Globes voters – the Hollywood Foreign…
That spin-off/prequel we have all been waiting for is finally here, bringing us back into Vince Gilligan’s beautifully dark world of Albuquerque, New Mexico. It has been almost a year and a half since we said goodbye to the universally acclaimed Breaking Bad so a chance to re-visit one of the show’s most memorable character,…
Ben & Jerry’s Openair Cinemas are back with a bang this summer, bringing music by day and movies by night to Sydney’s Bondi Beach. As part of a nationwide series of events, which are enjoyed by more than 150,000 people across Australia, the Sydney leg of the tour will take place on the lawn by…
It’s hard to not like Liam Neeson, the delicate mix of tender and tough-as-nails be brings to the now well-known character of Bryan Mills gives us a lead that we can really get behind, but Neeson isn’t so much the problem in Taken 3, it’s that damn dead horse they keep flogging. When Taken first…
With Netflix’s debut in Australia and New Zealand in March 2015 coming up, it’s only right that they announce more than a few television shows which will be available for us all to consume at our leisure. The increasingly popular streaming service has set premiere dates for new original series as well as a bunch…
Paramount Pictures Australia are gearing up the release of side-splitting comedy Top Five from the always peppy mind of Chris Rock with a red band trailer that looks very promising, showcasing the huge cast in what we are expecting to be one of the genuinely hilarious comedies this year. The blend of star-studded comedic romp…
The Mindy Project is back for 2015 and it begins with Mindy moving to California to begin her 8 month fellowship at Stanford University. This is a great move, as I was certain that there was going to be a time jump and we’d soon be seeing Mindy back in New York City. As it…
Following the first 15 films in our countdown yesterday, we now bring you our favourite 15 films of 2014… 15. Fury Fury is quite unlike any war film you have ever seen before, and is quite simply one of the most emotionally shaking films of the past decade. It gives audiences a taste of what…
It’s that time again when we look back at the year of film. Here now are the first 15 films that make up our 30 favourite films of 2014. Films eligble for this list were ones released in Australian Cinemas between 1st January and 31st December, 2014: 30. The Mule A strong script, excellent performances,…
“Is it too late to change the name”, Paul Rudd asks in our first official look at Marvel’s hotly anticipated Ant-Man. With the trailer being released earlier today we begin to witness Marvel and Walt Disney’s marketing campaign for the long-overdue transposition of Marvel’s classic superhero to the big screen. Ant-Man continues the sometimes trend…
The Piano was one big success story in 1993. It was the winner of three Academy Awards (Best Screenplay, Actress and Supporting Actress) and the prestigious Palme d’Or at Cannes, as well as being the darling of critics and fans alike. This beautiful and haunting film has recently been digitally remastered and released on Blu-ray…
Above and Beyond is a documentary that follows a ragtag group of skilled American pilots, both Jewish and non-Jewish, who answered the call to aid in Israel’s War of Independence from 1948-1949. This band of brothers, comprised of many WWII veterans, would not only see their lives altered in unexpected ways, but would also leave their…
With television shows increasingly becoming more impressive in terms of production, scale, and story, it comes to little surprise that HBO plan to transpose their fantasy epic Game of Thrones to the big, big screen. The New York Times reports that HBO plans to show an exclusive trailer for the coming season along with the…
I wonder how James Lapine felt as he penned the screenplay for the Disney film adaptation of his popular book turned musical Into the Woods almost two decades after its release. Debuting in 1986 with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Into the Woods has been developed into several productions, won a stack of Tony…
WARNING: This review contains spoilers. It’s your allied super team from all corners of the globe – Danger 5 is back! This time, they’ve fly-kicked their way out of the swinging sixties and landed in the dripping excess of the eighties. Just when you thought that dastardly Hitler was dead for good, the evil mastermind turns…
As expected, the final chapter of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies has topped the box office with a mammoth $12 million, miles ahead of it’s closest competition which comes from critically acclaimed Disney gem Big Hero 6. Reports are indicating that the close of this trilogy has managed…
Family Guy is one of those shows where you either love it or loathe it. And for some people Season 14 may also cause the same kind of reactions. It’s because this season sees characters like Stewie (Seth MacFarlane) becoming less like the evil and murderous child genius he was at the beginning of the…
Monday – 5th January 2015 The Pursuit of Happyness, One, 8:30pm AEST Will Smith stars as Chris Gardner, a father struggling to make ends meet. Gardner takes a risk on a prestigious stock brokerage internship in an effort to create a better life for himself and his son, played by Smith’s real-life son Jaden in…
This weekend on SBS 2, the cult TV comedy Danger 5 is returning to our screens for the first time in almost three years. First, we’ll be able to relive the pulp magazine inspired original series with all 7 episodes in a marathon tomorrow (3rd January 2015). Then, Sunday night at 9.30pm on SBS 2…
With Christmas behind us, what is there to watch on the TV as the Holidays continue towards New Years? Kimberley Veart has your TV picks for the next three days: Monday December 29th Jaws, Ch. 7, 9:30pm AEST Scare yourself out of ever swimming in the ocean again by watching Jaws. Though the special effects…
