Marty Supreme is exactly the kind of big, brash, slightly unhinged swing that feels tailor-made for co-writer/director Josh Safdie and for Timothée Chalamet at this precise moment in his career. A kinetic, sweaty, frequently overwhelming sports comedy-drama, the film barrels through 1950s New York and far beyond with the same single-minded obsession as its protagonist,…
Queer Screen has revealed the full program for the 33rd Mardi Gras Film Festival, returning to Sydney from 12th – 26th February, 2026 with two vibrant weeks of LGBTIQ+ cinema as part of the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras celebrations. Screenings will take place across key city venues including Event Cinemas George Street and…
Viagra Boys returned to Sydney to play the Hordern Pavilion on The Infinite Anxiety Tour. The Swedish post-punk rockers led by Sebastian Murphy delivered a killer set of brute-force rock and roll that pumped up the crowd and they reacted the only way that made sense, bodies colliding, crowd surfing, sweat flying, fists pumping. Supported…
On a Saturday night with some of the worst weather Sydney has seen in a while, The Last Dinner Party put their best feet forward and delivered an intricate, fun and overwhelmingly brilliant set as part of their From The Pyre world tour. Returning to Australia 18 months on from their inaugural tour, the English…
Irrespective of how old you are, the memories of adolescence are never far behind. The awkwardness and insecurity of growing into yourself – both physically and mentally – and the overwhelming sense that your parents will simply never understand. And if they try, well that’s just so embarrassing. Perhaps that is what makes the character…
The Last Dinner Party delivered an electrifying and theatrical performance in Sydney at the TikTok Entertainment Centre on a very wet Saturday night. Frontwoman Abigail Morris was magnetic, prowling the stage with preacher-like intensity, her voice swinging from operatic to punkish in the space of a verse. Around her, the band moved like a small…
Cavetown has always felt like a project built on connection rather than spectacle. Over the years, Robin Skinner has quietly grown from uploading songs online to becoming one of the most trusted voices in indie music, all without losing the intimacy that made people gravitate towards his work in the first place. Now, with a…
After more than a decade away from releasing a full-length studio album (the last being 2015’s Breathe In. Breathe Out.), Hilary Duff is rejuvenating her place in pop music with Luck…or Something – a record that feels less like a nostalgic throwback and more like a necessary evolution. Scheduled to arrive on February 20th, via…
Joe Carnahan’s The Rip arrives with the familiar Netflix sheen, but beneath that polish is something tougher, meaner, and far more cinematic than the algorithm usually allows. A pressure-cooker crime thriller steeped in mistrust and moral rot, the film leans hard into character before letting violence and paranoia take the wheel. It’s a throwback with…
It Was Just an Accident is a quietly devastating triumph, a film that proves how little spectacle is needed when moral tension, lived experience, and cinematic restraint are in perfect alignment. Working with an almost disarmingly simple premise, writer/director Jafar Panahi crafts a thriller that unfolds largely through conversation, hesitation, and silence. Yet the film…
Maggie Gyllenhaal isn’t interested in playing it safe. At the global trailer launch for The Bride!, the writer-director-producer spoke with infectious passion about her radical reimagining of one of cinema’s most iconic monsters, revealing a film that’s punk, romantic, mythic, deeply personal, and unapologetically loud. Here’s everything we learned about The Bride! and the bold…
Madison Beer has spent much of her career being underestimated, written off as an influencer-adjacent pop star, praised faintly for singles but rarely credited for her artistry as a whole. Locket, her third album, should finally put that misconception to rest. It’s a deeply introspective, emotionally cohesive body of work that rewards close listening, offering…
With What I Like About You arriving on Netflix Australia this coming Monday, 19th January, the early-2000s sitcom has a chance at a second life – one it arguably always deserved. In its original run from 2002 to 2006, the show rarely received the cultural spotlight afforded to its peers, yet it quietly delivered something…
When Scream arrived in 1996, the slasher genre wasn’t just tired, it was on life support. The once-mighty franchises of the ’70s and ’80s had collapsed under the weight of diminishing returns, self-parody, and cultural irrelevance. Friday the 13th had become a punchline. A Nightmare on Elm Street had turned Freddy Krueger into a merchandising…
ARMY! Do we have news for you. Back in 2014, we were lucky to get Australia’s first interview with the K-Pop group who became a sensation around the world, BTS. And now for the first time since 2022, the group are back and ready to tour the world through 2026 and 2027 across 34 regions…
Last month, I had the privilege of sitting down in Tokyo, Japan with Orono from Superorganism, and her Dad – the namesake of her new project Nose Noise‘s 2025 LP TOM. Orono and I last formally sat down back in 2018 while they were on ground at The Great Escape in the UK, ahead of…
Returning to a world that once redefined cinematic terror, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple doesn’t simply extend the legacy of Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s vision – it interrogates it. Under Nia DaCosta’s direction, the film pivots away from the familiar terror of the infected and toward something colder and more unsettling: the ways…
Nia DaCosta’s 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple takes the world Danny Boyle and Alex Garland built and flips it on its head, and the result is both shocking and mesmerizing. While it shares some of the DNA of its predecessor, this is very much DaCosta’s film: audacious, unflinching, and surprisingly beautiful. The story expands…
Sarah Snook’s extraordinary career is coming full circle this February, with the acclaimed actor returning home to headline a special In Conversation event at the 2026 AACTA Festival – and to receive one of the Australian screen industry’s highest honours. The Succession star will be awarded the prestigious AACTA Trailblazer Award at the 2026 AACTA…
There is an innate wanderlust that drives us to seek out the extraordinary, to swap the urban jungle for the real one, and to trade screen time for the spectacle of nature. For the discerning traveler, Tanzania represents the pinnacle of African adventure, offering a front-row seat to the circle of life on the Serengeti…
Fresh from redefining modern horror with Evil Dead Rise, Lee Cronin returns with a daring new vision – one that takes on a legend as old as fear itself. Lee Cronin’s The Mummy isn’t interested in polite nostalgia. It’s a reinvention: darker, stranger, and far more unsettling than audiences might be ready for. And if…
Warner Bros. Pictures is bringing a little Hollywood magic home, announcing that two of Australia’s most celebrated talents, Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, will return to Sydney to launch Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” in spectacular fashion. The film will open with a special Opening Night Celebration at the State Theatre on Thursday, February 12th, marking…
On a Brisbane soundstage transformed into open ocean, Killer Whale is quietly revealing itself to be far more than a creature feature. What the producers and creative team are building here is a film that blends old-school practical filmmaking, contemporary visual effects, and a pointed generational perspective – one aimed squarely at an audience rarely…
Grow is the type of film that sneaks up on you. On paper, a family-friendly film about competitive pumpkin growing doesn’t exactly scream “essential viewing”, but director John McPhail clearly understands that sincerity, when handled with confidence, can be quietly disarming. By the time the film settles into its rhythm, pumpkins aren’t just the subject,…
There’s something quietly radical about a family film that trusts gentleness over noise. Set in the self-proclaimed Pumpkin Capital of the World, Grow unfolds like a story many of us remember from childhood, one that invites laughter, warmth, and the comforting belief that people, at their core, are good. Stoic farmer Dinah Little (Golda Rosheuvel,…
When J.Lo arrived at the turn of the millennium, Jennifer Lopez was already famous – but fame and longevity are not the same thing. Released as her sophomore album, J.Lo carried a weighty question: was Lopez a genuine pop force, or merely a celebrity moment stretched into a record deal? Twenty-five years later, the answer…
In Hamnet, grief isn’t a rupture so much as a reorientation – a learning to carry love in a new, altered way. Chloé Zhao’s hushed, elemental adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel traces the aftershocks of unimaginable loss through Agnes and Will Shakespeare, as the death of their son Hamnet becomes both a private wound and…
Hamnet is a film that feels less like it’s being watched than lived alongside. It moves with the hush of grief, the ache of memory, the strange, half-lit space where love continues after loss has shattered its original shape. From its opening scroll – a simple historical truth that “Hamnet” and “Hamlet” were once interchangeable…
Hollywood’s current nostalgia cycle has moved beyond prestige remakes and into something far more interesting: reclamation. The success of Anaconda’s meta-leaning revival – powered by the pairing of Jack Black and Paul Rudd – signals a new appetite for films that don’t apologise for their origins, but interrogate them. The ’90s were an era of…
When Willa Ford announced amanda, her first album in over two decades, it didn’t arrive with the bombast typically expected of a pop comeback. There was no algorithm-chasing single, no irony-soaked Y2K cosplay, no attempt to rewrite history as if the last 25 years hadn’t happened. Instead, what she offered was something far rarer in…
