Film & TV

Ravenswood, the new spin off series from the successful tween thriller Pretty Little Liars (PLL), jumps smack bang right into the middle of its own story line. In the latest series for young adults who like to find themselves questioning every single plot line in a television show, Ravenswood immediately slaps the audience with dark and awkward family secrets,…

Well, what can we say about last week’s New Girl? First and foremost, it’s nice to see a lot of the usual humour is getting back on track, although I have to say that this season has already showcased some splendid jokes, if they really can be called that. The theme of episode five seemed to…

You’ve probably heard of the name ‘Sleepy Hollow’, you might be familiar with the original ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ story by Washington Irving, or maybe the Tim Burton horror film that featured Johnny Depp rings a bell? It’s a fairly popular and remade work of fiction and this time it gets a modern twist…

After a lacklustre pilot, there was still the potential for the season to produce nail-biting suspense and shocking twists that was delivered in the previous seasons. After the airing of the second episode, however, it seems we will have to wait a little longer. “American Horror Story: Coven” is set in the present day and although…

In a recent photo shoot for The Hollywood Reporter, Ricky Gervais is captured flipping the bird to the camera, whilst burning money with the smoke of his cigar. Say what you will about him, but I think he’s brilliant. His aptitude in developing comic relief which showcase the raw reality of banal existence is spot…

Eagle Entertainment is pleased to announce the release of the cop thriller McCanick. David Morse is the titular character, a rough-hewn Philadelphia detective; and Cory Monteith, in his final role, portrays a recently released prisoner that McCanick soon has in the crosshairs. McCanick has been released on DVD and Blu-ray this month. Parallel plot lines shift between the…

Armageddon Expo – when you hear the name, what does it conjure up in your mind? The book of revelation will tell you it’s the end of the world between good and evil. Going to this festival you will see it is full of characters that are portrayed as good and evil as well as…

As one of the UK’s most-loved comedy characters, Alan Partridge, the fictional local radio DJ and one time talk show host is coming to cinemas October 24 in the not to be missed British Comedy Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa When Alan’s radio station, North Norfolk Digital, is taken over by a new media conglomerate, it sets…

There was a collective breath held when New Girl returned on September 17th. After the not-so-surprising but nevertheless big finish of last season, there was a definite curiosity about where this season could be heading, especially as we all know that TV relationships are never destined to work out. So what did the beginning of…

The horror anthology produced by FX in the US and now airing Monday nights on channel Eleven usually bases its setting, characters and plot around archetypal horror concepts and sub-genres. Now in its third incarnation, American Horror Story sets Coven modern day New Orleans with flashbacks to the nineteen hundreds and focuses on the supernatural aspect…

In this issue: A release date for Static, upcoming programming on MAX and World Movies, BIFF and GFF are coming to town, while Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is heading to Missoula while Neil Finn and Paul Kelly are in cahoots with their new doco Static available on DVD now New film from director Todd…

Have you ever wished that you could go back in time to stop yourself from saying something stupid? Or to return to a moment when you should have kissed someone but didn’t? Of course you have. One of the great frustrations of life is that you cannot re-live moments that have passed. But what if you…

Supernatural has long been a staple on Channel 10 and now its digital offshoot 11, since it first hit screens in 2005. With a team comprising of a large chunk of the production and writing crew behind The X-Files and a “supernatural” storyline base it was sure to sweep up the fans of the aforementioned…

Let’s get it out of the way up front: I love Homeland. I think it is the best thing on TV right now (with its only true competition being Game of Thrones now that Breaking Bad has ended). I found the first two seasons to be riveting and immaculately constructed, and I have high hopes for the third. As I…

The Iris catches up with Nazeem Hussain about his new show, Legally Brown, which is currently airing on SBS. Putting politics and culture directly in the line of fire, Legally Brown is a hilarious comedy and who best to find out more, than from the man himself? Thanks for your time Nazeem! So, you’re one episode down (at least in…

The Iris’ Johnny Au speaks with Jason Carter ahead of the Armageddon Expo in Melbourne. Jason is best known of his role as Ranger Marcus Cole in the Sci-fi series Babylon 5. What inspired you to get into acting in the beginning? I had been fortunate enough as a teen to be cast as ‘The Artful…

The plot of the recently released Runner, Runner centres around Richie Furst (played by Justin Timberlake), a Princeton student who loses all of his tuition money on Midnight Black, an online poker site run by Ivan Block (played by Ben Affleck) who then ends up working for him, moves swiftly from the get-go, but begins to pace…

Larry heath sits down with Kendall Schmidt from Nickelodeon’s Big Time Rush and his own band Heffron Drive to talk about Slime Time, being in Australia, both projects and all the music that comes with it… and much, much more… ———- This content has recently been ported from its original home on The Iris and…

Since 2005, the Comedy Channel has been the host of one of TV’s most irreverent and disturbing, but also hilarious comedy programs. Robot Chicken uses stop motion animation, toys and the twisted minds of Seth Green and Matt Senreich and their fellow animation creators to challenge the boundaries of taste. The GRAPHIC Festival showcase at…

In this issue: Box office news for We’re the Millers, a new release from Madman, Metallica at Imax, lineups announced for Austin Film Festival and Greek Film Festival, callouts for entries from Edge and Studio, watch Pandora’s Promise to meet Robert Stone, plus much more… The Greek Film Festival is coming to town The Delphi…

Dear Parks and Recreation, I don’t think you quite realise how much I’ve missed you.   I’ve missed you more than Tom Haverford misses 90s RnB!  More than Ron Swanson misses the days when the government didn’t exist [despite not being alive then].  More than Andy is going to miss Champion, now that he’s hanging out…

Being released on Blu-Ray and DVD in Australia on October 23rd is the film McCanick, a film starring David Morse and the late Cory Montieth. Bill Craske, filling in for Larry Heath, caught up with Morse to talk about the film – which sees him take on the role of a narcotics detective, hunting down a “seemingly harmless young…

It’s hard for us to contemplate a world where sex was a giant mystery. But in the late fifties the word “pregnancy” could be censored from television, Elvis caused a stir by shaking his hips and married couples often slept in separate, single beds. Welcome to 1957, the year when two pioneers, William Masters and Virginia Johnson took sex…

I’ve started writing this review mere minutes after seeing the film. There was even more hyperbole than what the end product suggests. I have left the cinema with an uncontrollable sense of awe. Even hours and days later, I can’t escape what I witnessed. In spite of the emotionally engaging and thrilling sequences that leave…

Metallica Through The Never 3D will release for one week only on the world’s biggest screen, IMAX Darling Harbour, on the 10th October 2013. From award-winning filmmaker Nimrod Antal, Metallica Through The Never 3D is a music-driven feature film that combines a bold narrative and spectacular live-performance footage of one of the most popular and influential rock bands…

In this issue: Kim Williams to deliver lecture at SPAA’s Screen Forever, a DVD release for Broken, The Returned running on Foxtel’s Studio, Tropfest gets an extension and make your own film… about cannibals! Screen Forever to host Kim Williams for Hector Crawford Memorial Lecture SPAA’s inaugural Screen Forever conference for 2013 will be host…

Woody Allen’s directorial output has been decidedly uneven, particularly within the last decade. While highlights of the decade have included the thrilling Match Point (2005) and the joyous gem Midnight in Paris (2011), Allen has also underwhelmed us with films like You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) and To Rome with Love (2012). This is understandable given the sheer frequency of…

Now screening at IMAX Darling Harbour in Sydney, Hidden Universe 3D sets quite a few milestones for the Australian film industry. Most notably, the shortform IMAX production marks the first time an IMAX 3D film has been produced and directed by an Australian team. It was suitable, therefore, to premiere the film in a special screening at…

While electronic music is doing supremely well in Australia at the moment, we can’t say that it’s always been this way. We can only dream of regularly having warehouse parties and living up to techno hotspots Paris and Berlin. With links to the underground and drug scene, it’s no surprise that the mysterious depths of…

What do you get when you mash up a classic buddy cop duo film with some sci-fi supernatural elements and the director of a comic book spin-off film? You get R.I.P.D. which is basically like Men In Black, Ghostbusters and aforementioned director’s comic film Red but sadly doesn’t come anywhere near the quality of any of those. When I saw the…