Homeland is back for another year. I will be chronicling the journeys of Carrie, Saul and Brody throughout the third season of the best show currently on television. Spoilers within so don’t read before viewing the episodes! Previously on Homeland… Saul (Mandy Patinkin) has been successful in his plan to use Carrie (Claire Danes) as bait in…
The Iris brings you the first look official trailer for Interstellar, directed by the acclaimed Christopher Nolan and starring Matthew McConaughey. The trailer introduces us, vaguely, to the film’s premise, with a brief period of shots from the film and found footage from the history of American space exploration. Interstellar opens nationally in Australia on…
Daniel Bolt takes us to the red carpet with these photos from the Sydney, Australia premiere of the acclaimed film American Hustle. You can read our review of the film right HERE. The premiere took place on December 11th at the George St Event Cinemas. [print_gllr id=895] ———- This content has recently been ported from…
With an ensemble cast of some of Hollywood’s current A-list crop and an Oscar nominated multi-award winning director/writer helming the film American Hustle is already garnering a lot of hype and I would say that you better believe it’s worth it. We open with the film telling us that “some of this actually happened” and…
More secrets are unveiled in this episode and things begin to look interesting again. In episode 7, Queenie and Delphine’s friendship grows as Zoe and Cordelia attempt to discover Madison’s murderer. The turning points in this episode are quite dramatic but, as observed in previous reviews, the lack of effective characterisation has decreased their impact. Unlike previous seasons where the…
The Iris meets Paul Rudd on the red carpet of Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues in Sydney, Australia. We talk about what it was like to return to the screen, about his time in Australia so far and the potential of a third Anchorman film! Interview: Chris Singh Camera: Nathan Atkins Edit: Larry Heath Filmed…
The first international trailer for the sci-fi thriller Edge of Tomorrow has premiered, and we have it for you on The Iris! The film stars Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt under the direction of Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr. & Mrs. Smith). It’s a pretty epic trailer which continually promises that “this is not…
Seeing any film at the Chauvel cinema, Paddington in Sydney is like stepping into an intimate experience. The service is friendly and personalised, and the cinema itself exudes a kind of chilled-out classy atmos; before your chosen film starts, you can order a beer or glass of wine to enjoy out on the balcony, or…
The Iris brings you the trailer for Godzilla, which was released internationally today. The film is set to release in cinemas across Australia on the 15th of May, 2014. The film is Hollywood’s second attempt at a rebirth to Toho’s iconic Godzilla, this time from Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures and directed by Gareth…
Three major debuts could not unseat Jennifer Lawrence from her box office throne in Australia this week. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (which has a fair chance of cracking $1 billion worldwide) retained its top spot despite strong competition from animated sequel Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 and new Vince Vaughn comedy Delivery Man. Hopeful franchise-starter Ender’s Game came in with…
Presented by APRA, AMCOS and the AGSC, the winners of the 2013 Screen Music Awards have been announced at a gala event at the Sydney State Theatre. Hosted by The Chaser’s Andrew Hansen and Chris Taylor, the winner’s list features an impressive group of composers who reflect the diversity and depth of the Australian screen…
“Rhyme, meter, conceit. Without this balance, a poem becomes slack.” Allan Ginsberg’s poetry professor proclaims this line in the earlier moments of Kill Your Darlings, and throughout its runtime I found myself wishing that the film had heeded this advice. Kill Your Darlings is a schizophrenic trip through the origins of the Beat Generation that never…
After receiving rave reviews from its debut at the Sundance Film Festival earlier in the year, buzz has been building for James Ponsoldt’s The Spectacular Now. So, does it live up to the hype? No, not really, but films rarely do. Despite being overrated by critics during its currently-brief lifetime, the film still impresses in many ways. It…
The Iris brings you the brand new official trailer for the cinematic sequel (or “sidequel” as it’s being called), 300: Rise of an Empire, which is released in Australian cinemas on 6th March 2014. The film will be released in 3D, 2D and in IMAX. Starring Eva Green, Rodrigo Santoro, Lena Headey and more… ———-…
Released in Australian cinemas on the 17th of April 2014, part two of the four expected Amazing Spider-Man films, starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone, just had its first full trailer unveiled. The title of the film on the official Australian site seems to suggest that we’ll be getting a tagline for the film that…
Check out the recently released companion piece for the acclaimed film Gravity. It’s a short film entitled Aningaaq, and though it was originally planned as an exclusive feature on the Gravity Blu-Ray/DVD release, the makers have ended up with an Academy Award eligible live-action short after showcasing the film alongside selected festival screenings of Gravity….
The Iris talks to Marc Fennell to talk about his upcoming co-hosting duties for the 22nd Tropfest short film festival in Sydney, Australia, broadcast on SBS2 around the country. The broadcast is happening this Sunday, December 8th from 8.30pm! For more details head to http://www.tropfest.com/ ———- This content has recently been ported from its original…
Following their nomination announcements earlier this week, we caught up with three of the AACTA nominees to discuss what this recognition meant to them, learn a little bit more about their films and find out what they thought about the broader nominations. With thanks to Chris Singh for taking on these interviews: CATHERINE KNAPMAN: PRODUCER,…
Sad to say I was a little disappointed when this week’s episode of New Girl began. It was worrying to see it turn down a cliché Thanksgiving/camping ‘everything goes wrong’ path that most sitcoms seem to have gone down at one time or another. New Girl is usually quite consistent in its originality, and while…
The zombie sub-genre can produce gory fun and easy thrills but the incorporation of the undead in Episode 5 of American Horror Story: Coven is nowhere near the standard of a George A. Romero picture. The zombie encounter is the highest point of the episode and it concludes half way through. Following on from the…
Growing up, we always have a couple of books we connect with. For me, before there was Harry Potter and before I could fully appreciate the sheer brilliance of the Hitchhikers series, there was a little 1985 Sci-Fi novel called Ender’s Game. It was the sort of novel, that at nine years old – or…
Opening on Boxing Day in Australia is the long awaited second part of The Hobbit trilogy, The Desolation of Smaug. Today Warner Bros / Roadshow have presented four clips to get you excited about the film, featuring Golbins, the return of Orlando Bloom as Legolas, Gandalf, Hobbits and much more. Also see Legolas get told…
The Iris meets funnyman Will Ferrell on the red carpet of the Sydney Anchorman: The Legend Continues premiere to find out what happened to the Anchorman musical, if a trilogy is in store and how Australia ahas treated him in an all too brief visit to our shores. Interview: Chris Singh Camera: Nathan Atkins Edit:…
Hunger Games‘ sequel Catching Fire held onto the Number One spot over the weekend, taking in an additional $6.75m at the local box office, followed by Bad Grandpa which held onto the Number Two position with $1.1m and Thor 2 which took in just under $900,000, returning to the number three spot. Newcomers Carrie and…
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) have unveiled the nominations for the 39 categories that will comprise the 3rd annual AACTA Awards, and The Great Gatsby tops the list with 14 nominations. The big-budget film faces competition from Kim Mordaunt’s The Rocket, a-low budget film, shot in Laos with unknown actors. Both…
Note: This Review May Contain Spoilers How I Live Now is at once strange and intriguing. Set in the 21st century, How I Live Now tells the story of a young, American girl who is sent to live with her cousins in the English countryside, when a world war breaks out across the country. Daisy, the American, and…
It’s the final year of high school and Sutters life is falling apart. Dumped by his girlfriend, ditched by his friends and failing his way through class, he starts sliding quietly into alcoholism. When he meets the quiet, geeky Aimee she seems to offer him a path out of the murk, but Sutter may not…
“I’m sorry. I know that means little at this point, but I am. I tried. I think you would all agree that I tried. To be true, to be strong, to be kind, to love, to be right. But I wasn’t.” With these few words, so begins All Is Lost, an incredible film about one man’s struggle…
Darlene Love. Merry Clayton. Lisa Fischer. Claudia Lennear. Táta Vega. Judith Hill. Jo Lawry. Stevvi Alexander. The names of these women may not seem familiar, but I can guarantee that you have heard at least one, if not all of them sing. How? Because all of these women are backup singers, and among the most celebrated of…
The grandmaster of animation, Hayao Miyazaki, made the somewhat unexpected announcement of his retirement from filmmaking a few months back when his film The Wind Rises played at the Venice Film Festival. The film’s trailer has arrived, and after great reviews from the festival circuit I’m hoping it’s a great watch. The film tells the…
