Mississippi Grind commences with a fixed camera shot of a pastoral landscape, a glorious rainbow stretches across the horizon in the background. Yet, when Ben Mendelsohn’s Gerry remarks on the spectacle with wonder around a local casino poker table later that evening, he is seemingly the only player to have witnessed it. At least, he…
We open in San Francisco in 1976. Minnie Goetz (Bel Powley) has just had sex for the first time. With Monroe (Alexander Skarsgård), her mother’s (Kistin Wiig) boyfriend. Based on Goets’ graphic novel memoir of the same name, The Diary of a Teenage Girl charts a dark and disturbing journey of a young woman, going…
Photo Credit: Stuart Sevastos. Thursday evening saw Death Cab for Cutie play the final show of their Australian tour, their first since 2012, at Perth’s Metro City. An event that saw certain OC memes flood social media in the days and weeks running up to the gig. Bit of a big disclosure right from the…
Kitty Daisy & Lewis captured by Carl Dziunka. Perth, being the most isolated capital city tends to find itself playing host to a lot touring bands playing their final shows of any given tour; especially if they’re in the country for Splendour. This can generally lead to some pretty interesting shows, in some cases the…
The Supanova Pop Culture Expo has added another ‘Supastar’ guest to their growing roster of actors, authors, voice artists and illustrators set to appear at this year’s events in Adelaide and Brisbane – Nick Frost! The British actor best known for his work with Simon Pegg in the classic ‘Cornetto Trilogy’ (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, World’s End)…
There isn’t a whole lot to explain when it comes to Rocket League. When people ask what it is I tell them that it’s soccer with cars. This much is true, because Rocket League’s unrelenting ability to entertain doesn’t require a complex foundation of expansive gameplay elements. Instead it revels in its simplicity and predilection…
Join us on the third day of the Edmonton Folk Music Festival in Canada with the likes of Bear’s Den, The Milk Carton Kids, Lucius, Matt Andersen, Richard Thompson, Hanggai and many more!
We take you to the second day of the action at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival in Canada with the headlining performances of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and Frazey Ford. Also featured is “On a String” – a collaborative performance featuring The Once and others, “Magical Moments” – featuring Bear’s Den, John Smith,…
Hot off the heels of the announcements over the past few months of a new series of X-Files, a 24 reboot (sans Jack Bauer) and a TV version of Minority Report, it seems that Fox – the TV network who over the years have brought us the likes of game changing series like Arrested Development and…
Vinyl – HBO’s new series from Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger and Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire) – is set to take us into the sex and drugs fuelled rock n’ roll lifestyle of the 1970’s. And with the new trailer, it looks like we should get ourselves set for some stylised mayhem that would make Guy Ritchie proud, a…
How To Dance In Ohio is an intimate documentary that allows viewers to see the world through the eyes of a young person on the autistic spectrum. It’s an uplifting film that shows three young women who are coming-of-age and the challenges and triumphs they experience. The story is a gentle, subtle and uplifting one…
The Difference Between Hell and Home was a solid album and Canadian melodic-hardcore outfit Counterparts succeed once again with their latest offering of Tragedy Will Find Us. What strikes as impressive from this band is their ability to make their songs intriguing. Instrumentation in each track is different than the last and each lyric pins right to the core…
Pure Noise Records seem to be pulling out some decent bands in their roster and Brigades was one I kept my eye on. With their fusion of pop punk and hardcore elements mixed together, I was drawn by their music as soon as I stumbled upon their EP, Crocodile Tears and damn was it good. But with their latest…
We’ve travelled to Edmonton, Canada to bring you Australian exclusive coverage of the 36th annual Edmonton Folk Festival. Day one kicked off with performances in their beautiful main stage ampitheatre that included Australia’s Angus and Julia Stone, Iceland’s Of Monsters and Men, Niger’s Bombino and more! Enjoy these photos by Larry Heath here:
Pictured: Peking Duk. Photo by Daniel Boczarski We got to spend quite a lot of time backstage at Lollapalooza this year, interviewing a pile of our favourite artists – which you’ll be seeing online in the days to come – and thought we’d bring you a few candid moments we captured over the weekend, from…
Chicago is transformed by Lollapalooza every year, giving the some 100,000 attendees, alongside those who didn’t get a ticket, the chance to experience the bands and the flavour of the incredible music that the event offers. Last weekend we headed to Chicago to check out the festival and also see what else the city had…
Before we get started on this week’s film and TV round up, we’d like to pay our respects to “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, a great of professional wrestling entertainment, inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005, has passed away at the age of 61 on 30 July 2015. Rest in peace, Hot Rod.
The Bellas battle it out with the Underwoods in this week’s DVD releases. Here are our three picks of DVDs and Blu-Rays you can pick up in Australian stores this week: PITCH PERFECT 2 Becca (Anna Kendrick) and the Barden Bellas are back for an international aca-battle in Pitch Perfect 2. Whilst the sequel to…
Blizzard have unveiled more new material for their upcoming shooter Overwatch at Gamescom in Germany overnight. Included in the presentation: a new character and two brand new maps.
The more we see of Guitar Hero Live, the more I feel like FreeStyle Games are coming at this project the right way. In addition to a comprehensive behind-the-scenes trailer, FreeStyle have announced the addition of singing to the game so that others can join in for co-op.
Bungie have released the latest trailer for their massive Destiny expansion, The Taken King, at Gamescom and it’s a whopper. There is so much good stuff in this trailer it’s hard to know where to begin.
Square Enix have debuted a new trailer for the next installment in their venerable RPG franchise, Final Fantasy XV. It takes us back in time 15 years to a crucial point hero Noctis’ past.
Avalanche Studios’ upcoming Mad Max game looks to be a very pretty and cinematic experience. The latest trailer for the game is no exception, featuring everything we definitely want to see from a Mad Max game but is again missing a crucial element – significant gameplay.
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 is a historically-oriented documentary that takes you through the unique underground music scene of the titular city that emerged during the 80s. Though clumsily-titled, it’s a fascinating portrait of a lost world of almost-surreal parties, rampant counter-culture and uninhibited artistic potential. Structurally, B-Movie follows the gradual immersion of…
If you plan to pick up Just Cause 3 on the Xbox One then good news! Your game will come with a copy of Just Cause 2. Microsoft made the announcement today at their Gamescom 2015 press brief. Just Cause 2 came out back in 2010 on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. The copy included here will…
In our 68th instalment of “Stumbled Upon”, we meet Plastic Birds from Sydney, and chat about being in a band with your brother, rapping, Phil Collins and get a sneak peak at their latest track ‘In Time’. Band Name: Plastic Birds Website / Social Media: Facebook / Soundcloud Genre: Psychedelic froth ‘n’ roll Members &…
Photo by Jenni White Larry caught up with Sydney’s own Spookyland backstage at Lollopalooza in Chicago. Their first everendeavour in North America has lead to a surreal experience of playing live shows at iconic venues and festival, staying in what can only be described as a ghost town and planning their next step: the release…
Exciting news for fans of terror and suspense, Universal Pictures has announced Oscar nominated director M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, The Village, Signs, Unbreakable) is coming to Australia to introduce his new thriller The Visit. Starring Australian rising stars, Olivia DeJonge (ABC TVs Hiding) and Ed Oxenbould (Paper Planes, Puberty Blues) lead as brother…
Universal Pictures just announced that Ice Cube and O’Shea Jackson Jr. will be heading to Sydney in September in support of one of the hottest films of 2015 – Straight Outta Compton. Joining them is visionary director of the film F. Gary Gray (Friday, The Italian Job). All three will be attending the Australian Premiere in Sydney on Tuesday 1st September. Straight Outta Compton follows the true…
Larry (Jason Schwartzman) is on the road to nowhere in notoriously chillaxed Austin. He’s just lost his job for a string of misdemeanours, and his only friends appear to be his very beloved French Bulldog Arrow (Schwatrzman’s pet in real life), a prescription medication dealer and aged carer, Norwood, and his grandmother (Olimpia Dukakis), a…
