As The Feed on SBS2 wraps up its Taboo week tonight, we thought we’d look at six films that broke the ultimate film Taboo: sex. Sure, you can blow someone’s head up and depict violence in a realistic manner – but the minute there is nudity, or sex, the censor board has a field day….
The Cannes Film Festival wrapped up recently, and as usual a crop of world class actors and film-makers were awarded at the close of the festival. In a great boost for Aussie film and, more particularly, Indigenous Australian artists, legendary Australian actor David Gulpilil was awarded Best Actor for his role in Rolf de Heer’s Charlie’s…
In the lead up to the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, World Movies is presenting Sex Before Soccer; a series of sexy international films, with two films playing off against each other at 9.30pm each night from Monday June 2nd, culminating with a marathon starting at 6pm on Saturday June 7th. Below is a promo and a…
X Men: Days of Future Past focuses heavily on the concept of time travel , and in a similar fashion to the penultimate season of Lost, approaches it with a sense of playful irreverence as we are given something much lighter than the previous X Men installment (First Class). Mystique plays a central role in…
Acclaimed director Guillermo del Toro and executive producer of Lost Carlton Cuse have joined their creative minds to bring a new vampire horror series to cable channel FX. Titled The Strain, the series looks to be about parasitic creatures which spread out on a doomed flight and cause an apocalyptic outbreak. The official trailer is…
Episode 2 in ‘Taboo Week’ examines the struggles of gay surfers and the surfing subculture and also a revealing look into the workings of a BDSM master/slave relationship. But before that the main headline of the news was the very public arrest of former detective Roger Rogerson over the alleged murder of uni student Jamie…
Gonzo, Parv and Nick spend the majority of this episode in Detroit. The once motor industry powerhouse is now the most bankrupt city in the country and a physical metaphor of the failure of the American Dream. Everything from houses to the once grand Michigan Central station are now abandoned and being reclaimed by nature….
In the privileged valleys of north-west California, the next generation are figuring their shit out. Based on James Franco’s linked short story collection of the same name, Palo Alto is the directorial debut of Gia Coppola. The premise will be familiar to anyone versed in the disaffected-slacker-coming-of-age genre: boys do stupid things, with pyrotechnics, alcohol and/or…
“They saw what I saw” And with that, the Draper torch has been passed. An incredible amount of hype and hesitation has been attached to the mid-season finale for Mad Men Season 7, and it’s safe to say that Waterloo delivered on every note it had to. From the rocket lift off at the episode’s…
It’s Halloween, and the dance floor has been rolled out, the alcohol has been mixed and the candy bought: it’s time for Kevulie IX – Kevin (Christopher J Domig) and Julie’s (Lucy Walters) annual Halloween party. Their best friends, Jesse (Gregory Perri) and Jen (Amelia Martin), have been married for ten years and are on…
And we’re off! With the crew at The Feed focussing on the unspeakable and the impolite throughout the last week of May for its ‘Taboo Week’, what better way to kick off than with a brief look at the tragedy that are the Isla Vista killings. Whenever a shooting takes place, we as commentators and…
We’re only a few weeks away from the release of comedy sequel 22 Jump Street, and publicity for the film is heating up. Just a couple of weeks after the release of the last clip from the film, Sony has released a clip from another scene. The new clip sees Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) meeting their…
Bryan Singer’s X-Men (2000) is generally credited with starting the phenomenally successful boom of modern comic book film adaptations that has dominated popular culture in the years since. Previous to the release of the film, comic book films had found some success with the Superman and Batman series, but had hit a low point with Batman & Robin in…
What an episode! The Strategy stands up against some of the finest episodes of the entire series and will likely be looked back upon a defining moment of season 7. A whole lot happened in this one, by Mad Men standards of ‘a lot’, and much of focused on Don and Peggy. Always the most…
We’ve officially reached the half-way point of the series and with the plans of most of our characters now in full motion, it’s looking a lot clearer cut. But the clean-up crew of both the hit-men and the police are now hot on the trails and making in-roads to getting things wrapped up, or so…
Instantly recognisable, the gigantic monster that is Godzilla has stalked remakes of the original Ishiro Honda classic for 60 years now, and while results have varied, the tale remains a classic. Gojira was originally conceived as a response to the tragedies which devastated Hiroshima, Negasaki, and Bikini Atoll, serving as a metaphor for the destruction…
Thursday evenings are always a good night for The Feed crew – it’s always a fairly broad reaching episode that manages to touch on a lot of different topics, and last night’s was no different. Opening with the nightly wrap, we were subject to (/able to view, depending on how generous you’re feeling) Tony Abbott’s…
There was a recent study which found that newborns often cry during the night because they’re trying to prevent their parents from reproducing again. This is the same sort of environment that the light comedy, Sex After Kids with tag line, “By any means necessary” comes from. This film explores sexuality and the social issues…
All over the world, fans of comic books and their film adaptations are joint in anticipation of one film. Some are expecting a masterpiece, some are cautiously optimistic, and others are already sharpening their pitchforks. Regardless, they will all be there on opening night to see whether Zack Snyder can successfully bring the two most…
Melbournians, you better start working on your best Hodor impressions, because your favourite Bran-carrying giant is coming to town. That’s right, Irish actor (and DJ) Kristian Nairn, who portrays Hodor on the HBO juggernaut series Game of Thrones, has been announced as a guest at Oz Comic-Con in Melbourne on July 5th and 6th. Fans will be…
The Iris takes you behind-the-scenes in this exclusive three part series of the SBS 2 Australian series “The Feed”, which is celebrating a year on the air! In part two, we join the team on a Wednesday afternoon as they prepare the show for their nightly broadcast. We find out what it takes to get…
So it turns out Australian audiences were in the mood for a bit of epic monster destruction over the weekend. In an incredible success story, Gareth Edwards’ reboot of Godzilla took the top spot over the weekend with almost $6.8 million, which also gives it the biggest opening weekend of the year so far! Pretty…
In the next two episodes of Unplanned America the lads Gonzo, Parv and Nick tackle some interesting stereotypes and turn them all upside down and make us re-evaluate what we think we know about the rap music industry, gangs, the parody porn scene and nudists and nudity. Landing in south-side Chicago the boys meet up…
In the next two episodes of Unplanned America the lads Gonzo, Parv and Nick tackle some interesting stereotypes and turn them all upside down and make us re-evaluate what we think we know about the rap music industry, gangs, the parody porn scene and nudists and nudity. In episode 4 “Inhibition and Exhibition” the boys…
As of writing this article, Australian horror film The Babadook sits at a comfortable 100% on review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes; and our very own Penny Spirou gave the film 4.5/5 in her review. Praise is pouring in from all over for this story about a widowed mother raising a young boy with behavioural issues…
As we all enjoy watching Parv, Gonzo and Nick travel around the USA in the new SBS2 series Unplanned America (screening every Monday night at 9.30pm), we reflect on ten TV series that will help give you your own tour of the varied and wild landscape that the USA presents to us travellers. We start…
Vivid Sydney and the 61st Sydney Film Festival have announced a special panel discussion titled ‘Inside The Rover‘ to celebrate the release of David Michôd’s The Rover, his first film since 2010’s searing Aussie crime masterpiece Animal Kingdom. Michôd will be joined by stars Guy Pearce (Animal Kingdom, Prometheus) and Robert Pattinson (Twilight, Cosmopolis), as well as producer Liz Watts. The…
A new Christopher Nolan film is an event that is matched by few others when it comes to audience expectations. After blowing us all away with his Dark Knight trilogy and amazing us with the mind-bending awesomeness of Inception, you can always bet that Nolan has something special up his sleeve. Very little is known…
We begin to sink ever deeper into the mystery surrounding our characters in Episode 4 ‘Eating The Blame’, and as predicted some of their motivations become clearer as they start coming head to head in a battle of wits. Whenever watching Fargo you are constantly reminded of the isolation and the fact that it’s cold,…
“The Laws of Gods and Men” threw us a little courtroom drama to further foreshadow the downfall of the Lannister dynasty. Conflict between siblings, a terribly stern father, and wishes of death are circulating heavily between the four main players in House Lannister; all the while King Tommen sits on his iron throne, relatively innocent…
