For Liv Hewson, a good detective story isn’t really about the crime. It’s about the people trying to make sense of what has been left behind. That philosophy sits at the heart of Treasure & Dirt, a distinctly Australian murder mystery set in the scorched, dust-choked opal mining town of Nullah, where the brutal beheading…
When Ted Lasso concluded its third season, it felt less like a television finale than a heartfelt farewell. It was the kind of ending that seemed content to leave AFC Richmond exactly where audiences hoped it would: bruised, wiser and full of possibility. So the announcement of a fourth season inevitably raised the question every…
On paper, Furious sounds like a familiar crime thriller. Emmy Rossum plays FBI agent Alice Black, a former NYPD detective hunting Catherine (Lola Petticrew), a calculating serial killer who targets powerful men. But creator Elizabeth Meriwether (The Dropout, Dying for Sex) is far less interested in asking who committed the crimes than why these women…
Few television series are as fearless as Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Across its first three seasons, the Paramount+ Original has redefined what modern Star Trek can be, embracing everything from courtroom drama and sweeping romance to a full-blown musical, all while never losing sight of the optimism and humanity that have defined the franchise…
One of the greatest strengths of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is the way it honours the franchise’s legacy while finding new depths in characters fans thought they already knew. Some, like Montgomery “Scotty” Scott, arrive with decades of expectation attached to their name. Others, like Dr. Joseph M’Benga, have been transformed from little more…
After conquering the competition in RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under Season 4, Lazy Susan is back in the Werk Room – but this time, she’s sitting beside Michelle Visage and Rhys Nicholson on the judging panel for Drag Race Down Under vs The World. Premiering July 24th on Stan, the new series brings together eleven…
For four seasons, Rhys Nicholson has watched queens sashay, lip-sync and occasionally self-destruct from the Drag Race Down Under judging panel. But with Drag Race Down Under vs The World, the competition gets even fiercer, bringing together eleven queens from across the global Drag Race franchise for the first international showdown filmed on Australasian soil….
When lives are on the line, there’s little room for hesitation. Stan’s new Australian drama The F Ward throws audiences into the chaotic reality of Sydney’s underfunded Pines Hospital, where a group of failed medical interns are handed one final opportunity to prove they deserve to become doctors. Battling impossible workloads, life-or-death emergencies and the…
Luxury, laughter and seaside escapes might be what first catches your eye in The Five Star Weekend, but beneath the picture-perfect Nantucket backdrop lies a far more relatable story about grief, forgiveness and the friendships that shape us long after we’ve left different chapters of our lives behind. Based on Elin Hilderbrand‘s bestselling novel, Peacock’s…
Medical dramas have long been built around brilliance. The gifted surgeon. The impossible diagnosis. The life-or-death operation that only the best doctor in the hospital can pull off. But The F Ward takes a different approach, asking what happens when the people holding the scalpel are the ones still trying to put themselves back together….
On paper, Lucky has all the ingredients of a gripping crime thriller. There’s a multimillion-dollar heist gone wrong, a woman on the run from both the FBI and a ruthless crime boss, and a protagonist forced to revisit a life she desperately tried to leave behind. But beneath the danger, deception and high-stakes action, the…
There are plenty of television series about criminals. Far fewer are interested in the contradictions that make them human. On paper, Lucky has all the ingredients of a high-stakes thriller. Based on Marissa Stapley’s bestselling novel, the Apple TV+ series follows Lucky (Anya Taylor-Joy), a gifted con artist forced back into the criminal world she…
On the surface, Lucky is a high-stakes thriller about a woman running from both the law and the criminal world she thought she’d left behind. Beneath the twists, cons and near-constant danger, however, lies a far more universal story about inheritance – not of money or possessions, but of perspective. Adapted from Marissa Stapley’s bestselling…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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….
Few television dramas have blended psychological mystery and historical reckoning as effectively as The Woman in the Wall. Led by a remarkable performance from Ruth Wilson, the series follows her Lorna Brady, a woman haunted by trauma and fragmented memories as she becomes entangled in a chilling investigation linked to Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries. While the…
Phoebe Tonkin and Brenton Thwaites know a thing or two about on-screen chemistry, but Two Years Later asks a deceptively simple question: what happens when timing gets in the way of true connection? The Paramount+ romantic drama follows Emily and Ryan, whose promising flirtation is cut short by the COVID pandemic, only for fate to…
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…
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…
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…
In a world where devotion is demanded and dissent is deadly, The Testaments ushers in a chilling new chapter of The Handmaid’s Tale – one that shifts its gaze to the next generation raised within Gilead’s suffocating grip. At the centre are Agnes and Daisy, two young women navigating the brutal indoctrination of Aunt Lydia’s…
Few novels arrive with the sense of destiny that surrounds The House of the Spirits. For Isabel Allende, it began not as a grand literary ambition, but as something far more intimate: a letter written on January 8th to her dying grandfather. More than four decades later, that deeply personal act of remembrance has evolved…
Spanning generations, heartbreak, and political upheaval, The House of the Spirits has long stood as one of the great literary portraits of love and legacy under pressure. Now, in its latest screen adaptation, that sweeping saga is reimagined with an intimate focus – anchoring its revolution not just in history, but within the fragile, shifting…
The red carpet for Peter Farrelly’s latest comedy was less a stroll and more a full-blown warm-up for the chaos to come – fitting for a film that proudly leans into its “balls-to-the-wall” sensibility while still promising a surprising amount of heart. Front and centre was Mark Wahlberg, who didn’t hesitate to set the tone,…
As the world of The Boys barrels toward its explosive final chapter, there’s a sense that nothing – and no one – is safe. In Season 5, Homelander reigns unchecked, the world bending to his volatile will, while the remaining resistance is fractured, imprisoned, or missing entirely. At the centre of it all stands Billy…
The Boys has never been subtle – so it feels only fitting that its final season rollout in Luna Park Sydney went big, loud, and just a little bit unhinged. Prime Video transformed the harbourside amusement park into a chaotic, immersive playground inspired by the show’s twisted universe, drawing more than 500 fans into a…
