Film & TV

Win a double in-season pass to the scorching horror sequel Evil Dead Burn

Thanks to Sony Pictures Australia, we have 5 double in-season passes (Admit 2) to see the scorching horror sequel Evil Dead Burn, only in Australian cinemas from July 9th, 2026. Evil Dead Burn unleashes the franchise’s most savage and terrifying ride to date, blazing onto big screens with an all-new chapter of carnage and demonic…

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Prime Video sets Neagley premiere immediately after Reacher Season Four finale

Prime Video is giving Reacher fans little time to catch their breath, confirming that its highly anticipated spin-off Neagley will premiere immediately following the conclusion of Reacher Season Four. Alongside the announcement, the streamer has also released the first-look images from the new action series, which places fan-favourite Frances Neagley firmly in the spotlight. Reacher…

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Full program revealed for 2026 Regionality Sunshine Coast Documentary and Factual Industry Event

The full program has been unveiled for the 2026 edition of Regionality Sunshine Coast, with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Chai Vasarhelyi set to headline the one-day documentary and factual industry event. Presented by AIDC and Screen Queensland, with the support of Sunshine Coast Council and in association with the Sunshine Coast Screen Collective, the event returns…

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Interview: Producer Jeff Purser on why authentic stories will always find their audience; “I think audiences have always rewarded honesty.”

For more than two decades, Australian producer, writer and director Jeff Purser has worked across both commercial hits and critically acclaimed cinema, helping bring stories as varied as Fat Pizza and Cedar Boys to the screen. With a career spanning film, television and streaming, Purser has seen the industry evolve through changing technologies, audience habits…

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Prime Video’s Elle is charming, but travels a road Legally Blonde already explored

There are few characters as effortlessly likeable as Elle Woods. Twenty-five years after Reese Witherspoon first turned the bubbly sorority girl into one of cinema’s most enduring heroines, Elle arrives with the daunting task of telling us something new about a character who already felt complete. The good news is that the series has found…

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How you can survive the night with Netflix’s new interactive thriller Unhinged

Netflix is expanding its gaming slate with Unhinged, an immersive interactive thriller that transforms your smartphone into your only lifeline as you attempt to survive a terrifying night trapped inside a dark apartment building. Launching exclusively on Netflix on June 30th, Unhinged comes from Night School Studio, the acclaimed developers behind Oxenfree and Oxenfree II:…

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Interview: Jeff Bridges and Bobby Moynihan on Minions & Monsters and the beautiful chaos of making movie magic

For audiences expecting little more than Minions-fuelled chaos, Minions & Monsters has a delightful surprise waiting. Beneath the slapstick, sight gags and monster-sized mayhem lies an unexpectedly heartfelt tribute to the magic of cinema itself. Set during Hollywood’s seismic transition from silent films to talkies, Illumination’s latest adventure isn’t simply about the Minions accidentally conquering…

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Interview: Jesse Eisenberg and Zoey Deutch on Minions & Monsters and falling in love with cinema all over again

On paper, Minions & Monsters sounds exactly as delightfully ridiculous as its title suggests: Minions accidentally conquer Hollywood, unleash monsters upon the world and somehow have to save it all over again. What our Peter Gray wasn’t expecting was a surprisingly heartfelt love letter to the movies themselves. Set against Hollywood’s transition from silent films…

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Interview: Director Sarah D’Ambrosio and star Hannah Emily Anderson on the right to feel bad in Good Vibes Only

With Good Vibes Only, writer/director Sarah D’Ambrosio imagines a world where artificial intelligence doesn’t just organise our lives – it dictates how we’re allowed to feel. After a painful break-up, Eva desperately wants to cry, but her relentlessly upbeat AI companion, Margaret, insists on steering her back towards positivity, transforming grief into something that needs…

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From BookTok to Barry’s Bay: How the cast of Every Year After honoured a beloved love story

The cast of Every Year After knew they were stepping into beloved territory. Adapted from Carley Fortune’s bestselling novel ‘Every Summer After’ – a BookTok sensation that spent 16 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller List and has sold more than one million copies – the series arrives with an audience already deeply invested…

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It must be the season of the witch for Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman in the full-length trailer for Practical Magic 2

Nearly three decades after becoming one of cinema’s most beloved cult classics, the Owens sisters are finally back. Warner Bros. has unveiled the first full-length trailer for Practical Magic 2, reuniting Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as Sally and Gillian Owens for a long-awaited return to the enchanting world of family curses, forbidden love, and…

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Film Review: Supergirl stands as a confident declaration that DC Studios intends for its heroes to feel distinct rather than interchangeable

Following the colourful optimism and unapologetic comic-book exuberance of Superman, the next chapter of DC Studios’ cinematic universe takes an unexpectedly darker turn. Directed by Craig Gillespie (I, Tonya, Cruella), Supergirl is less concerned with saving the world than it is with the emotional cost of surviving one. Drawing heavily from Tom King and Bilquis…

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New Farm Queer Film Festival celebrates five years with provocative premieres, Cannes favourites and queer cinema classics

Brisbane’s New Farm Queer Film Festival is marking its fifth anniversary with its most ambitious programme yet, bringing together acclaimed international premieres, boundary-pushing independent cinema, and landmark queer classics for a ten-day celebration of LGBTQIA+ storytelling. Running from July 30th to August 8th at New Farm Cinemas, the festival once again positions itself as one…

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Jake Johnson trades tennis for pickleball in first trailer for Apple TV’s The Dink

The battle for sporting supremacy is heading somewhere no one saw coming: the pickleball court. The first trailer for Apple TV’s The Dink has arrived, serving up a crowd-pleasing sports comedy packed with rivalry, redemption and more than a few bruised egos. Starring Jake Johnson, the film follows former tennis prodigy Dusty Boyd, whose promising…

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Drag Race Down Under Vs The World announces the stars battling it out for international drag supremacy

The world is officially coming Down Under. For the first time in Drag Race herstory, queens from across the global Drag Race universe are heading to Australia and New Zealand to battle some of the franchise’s most beloved Down Under alumni in the all-new Stan Original series Drag Race Down Under vs The World, premiering…

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Warner Bros. release Tom Cruise retrospective trailer in celebration of Digger, which looks to be his wildest role to date

For much of the last decade, Tom Cruise has operated almost exclusively in blockbuster territory. Whether dangling from aircraft in the Mission: Impossible franchise or returning to the cockpit for Top Gun: Maverick, the actor has cemented himself as cinema’s ultimate stunt-driven movie star. But a newly released career retrospective from Warner Bros. serves as…

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Film Review: Minions & Monsters is a surprisingly sweet love letter to Old Hollywood

There was a point where it felt as though the Minions had exhausted every conceivable avenue of chaos. After multiple Despicable Me entries and two standalone adventures, these yellow agents of destruction seemed destined to endlessly recycle the same collection of slapstick gags, gibberish conversations and increasingly frantic set pieces. Minions & Monsters doesn’t entirely…

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Interview: Colin Farrell on pushing John Sugar beyond observation in Sugar Season 2

When Apple TV+’s Sugar premiered last year, much of the conversation centred on its audacious mid-season twist. The neo-noir detective drama, starring Colin Farrell as private investigator John Sugar, revealed that its seemingly hard-boiled detective was, in fact, an alien observer living among humanity. But according to Farrell, that revelation was never the true heart…

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Interview: Director Daniel Nettheim and The Killings at Parrish Station series creator Ben Jenkins on grounding cosmic horror in emotional reality

A remote massacre. A decades-spanning mystery. A signal from somewhere beyond understanding. On the surface, The Killings at Parrish Station has all the hallmarks of a gripping cosmic horror thriller. But beneath the murders, the occult intrigue and the lingering questions of what happened at the isolated Parrish Research Station lies something far more human….

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Interview: Brian Cox on his directorial debut Glenrothan and the great exports of Scotland; “(Our) sense of identity runs very deep.”

For a film centred on whisky, Glenrothan is ultimately far more interested in what people inherit than what they produce. Set against the striking backdrop of the Scottish Highlands, Brian Cox‘s directorial debut follows two estranged brothers forced to confront decades of resentment, family history and the pull of a homeland neither can truly escape….

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Interview: Steve Toussaint on the latest season of House of the Dragon and reflecting on the cost of his character’s ambition

For all its dragons, battles and political intrigue, House of the Dragon has always been fascinated by something far more human: the gap between achievement and fulfilment. No character embodies that tension more than Corlys Velaryon. By the time audiences meet him, he has already accomplished what most people in Westeros could only dream of….

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Jenna Ortega is you new artificial best friend in first trailer for Taika Waititi’s Klara and the Sun

The first trailer for Klara and the Sun has arrived, offering audiences a moving first look at Academy Award winner Taika Waititi‘s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro‘s acclaimed novel. Led by Jenna Ortega, the film centres on Klara, an Artificial Friend designed to provide companionship, who longs for nothing more than to find a place where…

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Prime Video Leads Streamers as TV Week Reveals 66th Annual Logie Awards Nominees

The nominees for the 66th Annual TV WEEK Logie Awards have been unveiled, celebrating another year of Australian television across drama, comedy, entertainment, news, sport and reality programming, with Prime Video emerging as the most-nominated streaming service of 2026. Prime Video’s Australian Originals slate secured an impressive 11 nominations across three productions – The Narrow…

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Reese Witherspoon reunites with original Legally Blonde for sold-out ‘Elle World’ event celebrating the premiere of Elle on Prime Video

The world of Elle Woods took over New York City this week as Amazon MGM Studios transformed Manhattan’s Hall des Lumières into a pink-filled celebration of both the upcoming Prime Video series Elle and the 25th anniversary of Legally Blonde. Dubbed “Elle World,” the one-day immersive experience sold out almost immediately, drawing thousands of fans…

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Interview: Craig Gillespie on building the world of Supergirl from the ground up

One of the most striking things about Supergirl is how fully realised its universe feels. The latest entry in DC Studios’ growing cinematic universe doesn’t simply introduce audiences to new characters and planets; it presents entire cultures that feel as though they’ve existed long before the camera arrived. Watching the film, there’s a sense that…

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Apple TV announce release date for new comedy series Brothers starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson

Apple TV+ has unveiled the premiere date for its upcoming comedy series Brothers, a star-driven comedy led by Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey and Academy Award nominee Woody Harrelson. The eight-episode series will launch on 23rd September, with its first two episodes dropping on premiere day before continuing weekly through to 4th November. Created by…

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Film Review: Toy Story 5; thirty years later, these toys still have plenty of life left in them

The first generation of children raised alongside tablets are now old enough to have their own nostalgia. That reality makes Toy Story 5 feel less like an unnecessary sequel and more like a franchise finally catching up to the world around it. For years, Pixar’s beloved toys have wrestled with obsolescence. They survived the arrival…

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Win a double in-season pass to the riotous new chapter in the Despicable Me universe: Minions & Monsters

Thanks to Universal Pictures and Illumination, we have 5 double digital in-season passes (Admit 2) to see the riotous new chapter in the biggest global animated franchise in history: Minions & Monsters. Fresh off the worldwide blockbuster success of summer 2024’s funniest comedy, ‘Despicable Me 4’, Illumination expands its joyful animated universe with a riotous…

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Win a double in-season pass to see DC Studios’ newest hero: Supergirl

Thanks to Warner Bros. Pictures, we have 5 double digital in-season passes (Admit 2) to see DC Studios’s newest supehero, Supergirl, only in Australian cinemas from June 25th, 2026. Supergirl, DC Studios’ newest feature film to hit the big screen from Warner Bros. Pictures, starring Milly Alcock in the dual role of Supergirl/Kara Zor-El.  When…

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Film Review: Leviticus; haunting, worthwhile queer horror film speaks directly to an audience who rarely see their fears reflected with this much honesty

Religion and horror have long shared a common language. Both deal in fear, temptation, guilt, and the consequences of transgression. Adrian Chiarella‘s Leviticus understands that connection intimately, using supernatural terror not simply to frighten its audience but to examine the emotional violence inflicted upon queer people by institutions that claim to offer salvation. Set within…

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