In just a couple of days Sydneysiders will be able to watch Jaws on Manly Wharf. Could anything be more perfect? The Steven Spielberg classic will be the first of many classic shown at Manly Wharf Hotel as the seaside venue transforms into a cinema every Monday until the end of September. While Jaws launches…
With only a few days notice before release, Telltale Games have launched the fourth episode of their ongoing <i>Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series</i> onto Steam with other platforms to follow in the coming days. The story of the permanently embattled children of House Forrester continues as small victories have larger consequences, the past…
San Andreas is a fault line that extends through a large majority of California and is overdue for a BIG earthquake. “It’s not a matter of if but when” is the premonition that Lawrence (Paul Giamatti) a professor of seismology gives his class at Caltech, and after years of research into the prediction of earthquakes,…
Few films of recent years have had ingredients for wonder so specific as Birdman. Michael Keaton portraying a washed up, former comic book star trying to revitalise his career in an inventive script co-written and directed by the man who brought us Biutiful; the potential for amazement is through the roof and somehow, the film…
Alright, you ignorant screwheads – listen up. The new DLC for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Supremacy, drops June 2 and will be throwing the best chin in the business into the mix. Bruce Campbell, nerd icon and star of Sam Raimi’s Evil Deadfilms has joined the DLC’s already star-powered cast list, including Bill Paxton,…
With only a few days notice before release, Telltale Games have launched the fourth episode of their ongoing Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series onto Steam with other platforms to follow in the coming days. The story of the permanently embattled children of House Forrester continues as small victories have larger consequences, the past…
For the second weekend running, the latest Mad Max film has dominated the top of the Australian Box Office (week ending 27th May), outperforming the new entry Spy – which performed well for an American Comedy amongst positive reviews. Pitch Perfect 2 brought in an impressively strong weekend, too, especially being its third on the charts (it…
Silicon Valley is a TV show that takes a byte out of life in that American, computer wonderland, showing various male geeks working at large technological companies. The series is by Mike Judge (Beavis & Butt-head, King of The Hill) who actually worked as an engineer in Silicon Valley in the 1980s. This TV show…
Classic 1991 action film Point Break is getting a remake which is set to release later this year and the first trailer for it has dropped. The trailer shows FBI Agent Johnny Utah (Luke Bracey, in the original Keanu Reeves) is tracking down an elite group of athletes who are using their skills to pull…
Sometimes films transform you, sometimes they inspire you, and sometimes they do neither. Song One is one of those films that don’t really do either but remains a very pleasant story to watch. Directed by Kate Barker-Froyland, the film stars Anne Hathaway as Franny Ellis, an anthropology student studying in Morocco when she is called…
Dirty Laundry Live is part panel game show, part celebrity tabloid gossip discussion. Lawrence Mooney is the host with his partner in crime Brooke Satchwell and has rotating special guests, to help discuss who did what to whom and test their knowledge of the week’s click-bait news and rumour mill. Returning for its third season…
Eurovision is over for another year, and Australia’s first attempt at Eurovision glory created a ratings boom for SBS, with the second semi-final breaking records as the most successful SBS Eurovision broadcast ever. Over one million Australians tuned in to see home-grown crooner Guy Sebastianbattle it out against Europe’s most talented, and weirdest, singing acts….
Under this Sun is the debut work from Perth’s latest budding theatre company, The Emergence Co. Directed by Warwick Doddrell, Under This Sun follows the escapades of three young twenty somethings as they, each for their own reasons (some more misguided than others), make their way into the unforgiving landscape of the Australian outback. I…
Johnny Au and Larry Heath spent the last week covering the 10th annual music conference and festival Music Matters in Singapore, catching dozens of bands, a pile of talks and eating a whole heap of great food (of which no trip to the region would be complete without). Featuring over 70 bands from more than…
Cannes is over for another year, and it was a festival full of high heels, talk of ‘lesbian’ dramas, and, most importantly, the screening and recognition of great films. Whilst Carol, the Todd Haynes-directed drama starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, arguably gained the most publicity at Cannes, the film only won one award, with actress…
If you grew up with catchphrases such as “eat my shorts” and “don’t have a cow man” you’ll be all too familiar with the voice of Nancy Cartwright. Though most famous for playing Bart Simpson of The Simpsons, Cartwright has had an exceptional career as a voiceover artist, comedian, and film and television actress. If…
Regardless of your opinion on the controversial figure that was Amy Winehouse, there is no denying she was an incredibly talented musician who sadly passed away much too soon. To celebrate the life and music of Winehouse, the award-winning team behind the acclaimed documentary Senna has created Amy, an insightful and moving portrait of the…
If you’re a fan of Johnny Depp (and let’s face it, we all are) then you’ll definitely want to check out the trailer for his latest film, Black Mass. Directed by Scott Cooper, the movie is a biopic based on the life of James “Whitey” Bulger, as told by Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill in…
What do you get when you put one perpetually optimistic scientifically curious teenager with one former boy-genius now middle aged man jaded by disillusionment on a mission to find a mysterious place in time and space? A quintessential Disney film that somehow manages to be an action-adventure-secret joyride with a surprisingly funny cast that tries…
In our 50th instalment of “Stumbled Upon”, we meet Brisbane’s Black Limousine, and chat about their upcoming self-titled EP and performing dirty blues pop through to retro alt. country and classic blues. Band Name: Black Limousine Website / Social Media: Facebook / Soundcloud Genre: Blues Members & their roles: Alex De Marco: drums/percussion/vibes/vocals Mark Smith:…
<i>The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt</i> is finally here. Years of waiting, delays and many, many trailers with glimpses of what Geralt of Rivia’s next adventure would look like have built fan hype to fever pitch. The question everyone seems to be asking now is: can CD Projekt Red deliver a game that achieves its lofty…
While pacing was surprisingly rapid in the half of “The Gift”, the episode served us up some big, although fairly quiet, developments. Similarly to last weeks “Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken” focus was on the smaller character moments here, with storylines leaping forward involving Sansa, Tyrion, Cersei, and Sam. Let’s start with the more negligible part of…
It’s not the geekiest publication in the world, but Vanity Fair has posted a bunch of treats from Episode VII (2015) in the past week, including interviews with costume designer Michael Kaplan, legendary composer John Williams, and veteran Star Wars writer Lawrence Kasdan. At the bottom of each page are set photos by legendary photographer…
During World War II, the painting The Woman in Gold by renowned painter Gustav Klimt was illegally taken from the home of Adele Bloch-Bauer by the Nazis, and would eventually end up in the Belvedere Gallery in Vienna. It was a practice that went on throughout the war, when many Jewish homes were ransacked, their…
In one of Sydney’s few remaining small live music pubs on an unseasonably warm Autumn evening, some local talent come out to perform their tunes to a small but appreciative crowd. It’s an eclectic little mix of artists, from a singer-songwriter with some Bob Dylan tendencies, to an indie pop rock outfit and then our…
After what seems like a ridiculously long wait, NBC are finally gearing up for the start of the third season of the acclaimed TV adaptation of Hannibal. The show, which has been lauded for it’s clever writing, stylish violence and superb acting, seems to be using season two’s sinister ending to start anew, also drawing…
Since its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January, Cobain: Montage of Heck by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Brett Morgen (Crossfire Hurricane, The Kid Stays In The Picture) has received a phenomenal response from fans and critics alike, and from June 4 it can be yours on Blu-ray and DVD. Morgen received unprecedented access to Cobain’s…
Photo: Daniel Boud It’s the hardest part of being an artist – letting go of your work – and Sufjan Stevens lets go all the way. In the first of his performances for Vivid 2015, he transformed the Concert Hall into a mesmerising montage of his life’s narrative. First thought when the lights came on…
Razer have unveiled their new hard gaming mouse mat with a wealth of crazy built-in lighting effects. It’s called the Firefly. The Firefly uses a lighting feature built by Razer called Chroma that can deliver 16.8 million colour options and a bunch of different effects to use them with like pulse, reactive, weave and spectrum…
While not exactly a shot-for-shot re-make, Gil Kenan’s version of classic supernatural-horrorPoltergeist sticks fairly close to the original, at least when it charges into the brunt of the action. The 1982 original, from horror masterminds Tobe Hooper and Steven Spielberg, has been cemented into popular culture so the story should be familiar to most. You…
