Sad news today, Mindy fans – Adam Pally will be leaving the series in early 2015 (although apparently he will be making guest appearances as time permits). I can’t tell you how sad this makes me, as even if he’s only in the episode for a couple of minutes – as in this week’s offering…
SBS 2’s The Feed has aired the full version of “Broadcast Battleground” as part of their final episode of 2014. Capping off a year of news done a bit differently, the increasingly impressive program has managed to convince the country’s top news broadcasters from rival channels to, well, kill each other. In a totally real…
A couple of decades ago, equality was an issue that many people struggled to achieve in society. Imagine people of today fighting over racial differences? Sadly, this still happens but nothing compared to before. With the recent release of Studiocanal’s trailer of American drama film, Selma (directed by Ava DuVernay), viewers will find a sense of empathy towards…
Thursday Muriel’s Wedding, GEM, 9:10 pm AEST From the horrendous fashion to Muriel’s laughable obsession with ABBA, Muriel’s Wedding offers a hilarious yet equally bleak perspective on life in Australia in the 90s. Whilst Muriel herself may be “terrible” (according to her sister), this movie certainly is not. Stacey Dooley in the USA, SBS 2, 9:30 pm…
Museum of Sydney, as part of Sydney Living Museums (which looks after a group of 12 of the most important historic houses, gardens and museums), will showcase a number of film events which will kick off before the end of this year, focusing on documentaries both old and new. The concept has been curated by…
The inaugural Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival (BAPFF) is a 16 day event screening more than 80 films from across the region. The new program includes multi-award winning features and documentaries, highlights from the festival circuit, and a curated showcase of the best films from the Asia Pacific region. The festival’s program champions the big…
In the last decade society has experienced an enormous upheaval with technology and the effect of that on people and their social relationships has also changed drastically. In Men, Women & Children we take a stark look at the interactions between parents and their kids and how the digital age is both a help and…
Robert Knepper has got a devilish charm about him. Spending last weekend in Adelaide at the Supanova Pop Culture Expo, the American actor has been meeting many fans of his extensive body of work, whether it be Prison Break, Heroes, Mob City or more recently, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part One. Though I remember him mainly as T-Bag…
The last time Rupert Young and I spoke, we had our time together cut short by an odd phone operator. The Merlin star, currently in Australia for the Supanova Pop Culture Expo, and I went round two in Adelaide over the weekend, the day after he fielded fans’ questions at his Q&A and multiple photo and signing sessions on…
“Crossed” had a lot of table setting to do for the mid-season finale, cutting back and forth between four segments of the group in order to bring them all back into the scope and establish where they are and where they will be when the final episode for 2014 airs next week. After a few…
This November, Anchor Bay Entertainment is set to release the highly anticipated Starz Originals series, Black Sails The Complete First Season on Blu-ray and DVD. Direct from its premiere season on Foxtel’s Showcase, Black Sails is an action packed and thrilling series based on history’s most notorious pirate captains, following the story of New Providence…
If he’s not the King then Ian “Molly” Meldrum is undoubtedly the Queen of Australian music. The broadcaster, raconteur, producer, TV presenter, journalist, band manager and passionate music fan has seen and done it all. To celebrate some 50 years in the music industry as well as his upcoming induction into the ARIA Hall of…
Despite Interstellar’s stellar reviews and impressive opening week, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 did as expected and knocked it back down to earth. The Hunger Games is a box office magnet. It is commonplace for the franchise and this week was no different as the the newest iteration pulled in over $11.8 million. Interstellar didn’t…
What may ostensibly be another cash in of a classic children’s cartoon in the vein of Alvin & The Chipmunks and Yogi Bear, Paddington has received the ultimate thumbs up. London’s Leicester Square was the home of the Paddington premier last night and the venue had a very special guest in attendance. Michael Bond -the creator of the…
Sony Pictures has unveiled all the things that will go bump in the night in their upcoming Goosebumps movie. The cavalcade of characters look fantastic, most notable of which is Slappy, the ventriloquist doll from Night of the Living Dummy. Jack Black plays R.L Stine, author of the Goosebumps books who is forced to hide…
It’s a full blown, technologically advanced dinosaur theme park that is to serve as our island setting for the fourth installment in the iconic Jurassic Park series. Jurassic World, due for release June 12th next year, has itself an official trailer now, giving us a nice scope of just how chaotic this film is going…
Drawing easily one of the largest crowds of Supanova’s latest Adelaide jaunt were James and Oliver Phelps, otherwise known affectionately as Fred and George Weasley from the popular Harry Potter film series. With a Q&A panel on Sunday apparently cracking a 900-strong crowd number, the British siblings fielded questions from fans of all ages, covering all different topics. Surprisingly,…
Supanova came through Adelaide over the weekend, whipping the Adelaide Showgrounds up into a bit of a frenzy, so much so that the torrential rain and thunder on the Saturday added to the hectic vibes the pop culture expo brought on its own! I had the pleasure of catching up with some of the guests…
It has been confirmed that Netflix, the world leader in Internet TV has ordered the fourth season of the hit drama Longmire , from Warner Horizon Television. With Netflix hitting our shores in March of next year (finally!), ten new episodes will be premiered exclusively on the network. The 10 brand-new episodes will also be…
By Alexandra Donald Jimmy’s Hall, the latest from veteran filmmaker Ken Loach, is a stately portrait of a struggle for justice that’s a delicately executed, picturesque film and a charming watch – if not a particularly memorable one. Based on the life of Irish political activist Jimmy Gralton, the film charts the titular character’s return…
By Kimberley Veart Before its Thanksgiving hiatus, Bones offers up an episode to tug at the heartstrings. Daisy (Carla Gallo) returns, heavily pregnant and about to give birth to her child with the recently departed Sweets. The Jeffersonian team is concerned about her during this vulnerable time, especially as she seems to be acting strangely,…
Well this is escalating quickly. SBS 2’s The Feed has released a trailer for an episode this coming Thursday, featuring Australia’s top broadcast journalists in an all-out war, Anchorman style. The full segment will be part of The Feed’s final episode for 2014, which airs on Thursday November 27 at 7:30pm. David Marr oversees the…
By Kimberley Veart Monday The Talented Mr. Ripley, Gem, 8:30pm AEST This entertaining and thought-provoking film is set in the 1950s and features Matt Damon as Tom Ripley, on his journey to becoming the eponymous ‘Talented Mr. Ripley.’ A skilful liar with a talent for impressions and forgery, Ripley seeks to make the life of…
The Mule marks the Directoral debut of Angus Sampson and Tony Mahony, starring Sampson as Ray Jenkins alongside Leigh Wannell (Gavin) as “brothers in life”, with Gavin roping Ray into becoming a heroin mule following a trip to Bali. After getting nervous at Sydney Airport, he gets taken away by the police for suspicious behaviour and in…
The film Imaginaerum is like opening the doors of perception and entering a music video by Finnish metal band, Nightwish. The movie is based on their seventh studio album and concept record. Imaginaerum seems to have the same trappings as most rock operas once they are adapted for the screen. That is that while the visuals…
Back in 2008, TV audiences around the world were introduced to the fictional world of True Blood, the television adaptation of Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire novels and the first major HBO produced series Alan Ball created since the wrap of the hugely successful Six Feet Under series back in 2005. It was a time where vampire mythology was growing for itself a stronger…
Chicago P.D premiered to Australian audiences with a double episode last night. The series is the newest in but a long line of crime dramas by Law & Order mastermind Dick Wolf, and so it makes sense that all the experience will pour into making the show something special, right? Law & Order has been…
If you were reading The Iris back in March of this year, you may remember we posted parts of an interview we conducted with Angus Sampson and Leigh Whannell to talk about their new film The Mule, which premiered at SXSW 2014. Some eight months later and the film has finally had an Australian release,…
Fans of The Walking Dead have been waiting for Daryl and Carol to have their own episode for awhile, with the chemistry between these two both interesting and unique. Any sexual tension is mostly attributed to fan speculation, but what these two have here is an endearing platonic magnetism that always deserved to be explored…
The very long-awaited fourth installment in the iconic Jurassic Park film series is not longer just a rumour, with the blockbuster to be released on June 12, 2015. Just in case you still refuse to believe the news, a teaser has dropped before the first full-length trailer, which is expected to be unveiled on November…
