A doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom, but what lies beyond it in Backrooms is far more unnerving than a simple descent into another space. Expanding on the internet-born phenomenon that has fascinated audiences for years, filmmaker Kane Parsons transforms familiar environments into something deeply alien – endless corridors of fluorescent-lit emptiness…
Thanks to Madman Films, we have 10 double in-season passes (Admit 2) to see Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas in the feel-good story about music, self-respect, friendship, and the price of ambition, Power Ballad, in Australian cinemas from May 28th, 2026. When Rick (Paul Rudd), a past-his-prime wedding singer, meets fading boy-band star Danny (Nick Jonas)…
For all the moral panic that surrounded Jackass in the early 2000s – the think pieces about stupidity, the copycat fears, the handwringing over masculinity run amok – the franchise has quietly aged into something far more fascinating than anyone could have predicted. Rewatch it now – which you may well do in the lead-up…
June on Prime Video arrives with a packed slate spanning live sport, romance, fantasy, horror and prestige drama. Leading the month is every match of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 streaming live, exclusive and free for Australian audiences from June 13, while BookTok-fuelled romance adaptations Every Year After and Your Fault: London promise…
The 2026 HSBC Spanish & Latin American Film Festival is ready to sweep Australian audiences away on a vibrant cinematic journey this winter, returning with a line-up bursting with passion, rhythm, heartbreak, suspense and soul. Running across Palace Cinemas, Palace Nova and Luna Palace Cinemas from June to July, the festival’s 29th edition brings together…
André Øvredal has proven himself capable of delivering horror with atmosphere and restraint. Whether it was the creeping dread of The Autopsy of Jane Doe, the gothic ambition of The Last Voyage of the Demeter, or the gateway scares of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, his work usually contains at least a few…
For Josh Heuston, romance is less about grand gestures than the rare comfort of being fully seen. It’s a sentiment that feels fitting for Off Campus, the buzzy new Prime Video college drama that has quickly become the internet’s latest obsession. Based on the bestselling book series, the show blends the heightened emotion of a…
For a franchise built on cinematic awe, Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu arrives with surprisingly small ambitions. Expanded from the enormously successful Disney+ series The Mandalorian, the film technically delivers everything fans have come to expect: dusty space-western imagery, blaster-heavy action, adorable Grogu reaction shots, and endless lore connective tissue. What it struggles to…
In the world of Spider-Noir, shadows stretch longer, dialogue crackles with old-Hollywood rhythm, and even the city itself feels suspended somewhere between pulp detective fiction and comic-book mythology. But for stars Lamorne Morris and Karen Rodriguez, grounding that heightened world meant focusing less on stylisation and more on humanity. Based on the Marvel comic Spider-Man…
Ben Reilly’s version of Spider-Man has already lived through the kind of disillusionment most superhero stories spend entire trilogies building toward. By the time Spider-Noir begins, the idealism is gone, the city has worn him down, and what remains is a weary private investigator muttering lines like, “With no power, comes no responsibility” – a…
There’s always a risk when a successful streaming series makes the leap to a feature film that it will feel like an extended episode rather than a cinematic evolution. Fortunately, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War threads that needle with confidence, delivering a slick, character-driven thriller that works both as a continuation for fans and…
Romantic comedies live and die by chemistry, sincerity and the audience’s willingness to believe two people are destined to collide at exactly the right moment. Finding Emily, the charming new feature from director Alicia MacDonald, understands that formula completely. Rather than trying to reinvent the genre, the film leans into what has always made these…
There’s a moment early in Finding Emily where sensitive musician Owen locks eyes with a stranger across a crowded student union, and suddenly the world feels charged with possibility. It’s a feeling director Alicia MacDonald spends the entirety of her warm, witty and deeply heartfelt romantic comedy chasing – that intoxicating blur between adolescence and…
Romantic comedies have always thrived on grand gestures, chance encounters and impossibly perfect timing, but Finding Emily is more interested in the messy uncertainty that exists between those moments. Produced by Working Title Films, the warm and disarmingly sincere new film follows sensitive musician Owen (Spike Fearn), whose attempt to reconnect with a girl he…
Tom Cruise has spent more than four decades sprinting across movie screens, hanging off planes, scaling skyscrapers and redefining what audiences expect from a blockbuster star. Now, moviegoers are getting a glimpse at what may be one of the strangest and most transformative roles of his career – but only if they head to the…
Jing Ai Ng’s Forge slips into the art world through the side door. There are no velvet ropes, champagne-soaked auctions, or globe-trotting thieves in tuxedos here. Instead, the film plants itself in the sticky Miami heat, inside cramped motel rooms and a family-run dim sum restaurant where exhaustion hangs heavier than ambition. What emerges is…
Guy Ritchie’s In the Grey feels like the filmmaker maintaining the exact groove he knows best – fast-talking criminals, swaggering operatives, tangled negotiations, and men who communicate affection through insults, loyalty, and violence. After several years spent bouncing between blockbuster experimentation and franchise filmmaking, Ritchie once again returns to the kind of slick, dialogue-driven crime…
There’s a haunting contradiction at the centre of Life Could Be A Dream. On the surface, Sarah has everything: beauty, privilege, a handsome husband, an elegant home, and the kind of curated life that resembles a glossy magazine spread. But beneath the designer clothes and glass walls sits something far more fragile – a woman…
The housing crisis has become such a relentless part of modern conversation that it’s often reduced to statistics, market forecasts, and political finger-pointing. But in Birthright, writer-director Zoe Pepper turns that anxiety into something far messier, darker, and deeply human. The film follows Cory (Travis Jeffery) and his pregnant wife, Jasmine (Maria Angelico), after they’re…
Birthright is the kind of film that feels painfully recognisable, even as it spirals into increasingly absurd and unsettling territory. Writer-director Zoe Pepper takes the all-too-relatable anxiety of moving back in with your parents as an adult and turns it into a viciously funny social satire about class, entitlement, and the widening emotional divide between…
There’s a grimy authenticity pulsing through Dirty Hands that elevates it beyond the standard one-night crime thriller. Written, directed by, and starring Kevin Interdonato, the film thrives not because of its escalating violence, but because of the emotional wreckage left in its wake. Beneath the bloodshed, bruises, and frantic survival instincts is a surprisingly affecting…
BINGE has unveiled the official trailer for The Five Star Weekend, a glossy new eight-part drama led by and executive produced by Jennifer Garner. Adapted from the bestselling novel by Elin Hilderband, The Five Star Weekend follows Hollis Shaw (Garner), a beloved celebrity chef and author whose carefully curated life begins to unravel after a…
David Lowery’s Mother Mary wants to be an exorcism of pop stardom. Sometimes it feels like a fever dream stitched together from celebrity mythology, couture spectacle, psychological collapse, and gothic horror imagery. Other times, it feels like a film so entranced by its own symbolism that it forgets to give its characters enough humanity to…
Off Campus understands exactly what it is selling within the first ten minutes. Beautiful people. Hockey players with tragic backstories and perfect jawlines. College hookups shot like perfume ads. Emotional vulnerability wrapped in towels (and sometimes not) and locker-room lighting. It knows the “girls, gays, and theys” audience it is chasing, and it goes after…
After four successful seasons on Prime Video, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War marks the franchise’s leap from streaming series to full-scale feature-length thriller. Directed by Andrew Bernstein, the film finds Jack Ryan (John Krasinski) reluctantly pulled back into the world of espionage when a covert international mission spirals into a deadly conspiracy involving a…
Endurance stories are often framed around the finish line – the record broken, the impossible conquered. But In Pieces Together reframes that idea entirely. What begins as Blake Johnston’s attempt to break the world record for the longest continuous surf – a gruelling 40-hour effort – quickly reveals itself to be something far more profound….
There’s a moment in In Pieces Together where the scale of what Blake Johnston is attempting stops feeling physical and starts feeling deeply emotional. On paper, surfing continuously for 40 hours to break a world record sounds almost impossible. But beneath the exhaustion, saltwater and spectacle lies something far more personal: a son trying to honour…
Fifteen years on, Bridesmaids doesn’t simply just hold up – it looms. What once arrived as a risky studio gamble now feels like a cultural reset, a film that didn’t merely succeed within its moment but permanently altered the parameters of what mainstream comedy could look like, who it could center, and how honestly it…
The Gold Coast turned into Earthrealm this week as fans, gamers and cosplayers packed out the Official Australian Preview of Mortal Kombat II at Event Cinemas Pacific Fair on Tuesday night, welcoming the stars of the blood-soaked blockbuster back to the place where much of the film was brought to life. The event marked something…
Before she conquered Harvard in pink stilettos, Elle Woods was just trying to survive high school. Prime Video has unveiled the first teaser trailer for Elle, the upcoming prequel series to the beloved Legally Blonde franchise, ahead of Amazon’s annual upfront presentation in New York on May 11th. The series will premiere July 1st on…
