Renowned for screening quality cinema, Palace Cinemas are an all-Australian family-owned business. They have a great reputation for high-quality programming, showing the best in local and international cinema. Re-opening on Sunday June 7 2015, The Astor Theatre, now a part of the Palace family, is set to flourish again. This is the last single screen…
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In our 51st instalment of “Stumbled Upon”, we meet West Yorkshire lads The Grand, and chat about their debut album and dark and twisted romances. Band Name: The Grand Website / Social Media: Facebook / Bandcamp Genre: Alternative. Pop. Members & their roles: Russ Smith- Vocals/Bass Tom Peel- Gtr/Backing Vocals Andy Jennings- Drums/Backing Vocals What…
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Photo Credit: Daniel Boud, Sydney Opera House (Used with Permission) Formerly known as Smog, and the brief touring and life companion of the incomparable Joanna Newsom, Bill Callahan is sitting on an impressive catalogue of music that spans some 25 years and 14 albums. This week, he’s touring Australia for the first time in some…
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If you’ve not yet had a chance to get around Hermitude‘s new album Dark Night Sweet Light, this is the album you need to access on whatever music platform you’ve got near today. The recent ARIA #1 record has seen the duo rake in deserved kudos and as our feature artists of this month, we…
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The Melbourne International Film Festival for this year is set to commence on the 30th July and on the 7th July the full program will be launched. But before that we’ve been given a sneak peek of one of the titles that will premiere, Australian film Force Of Destiny. David Wenham stars as Robert, a…
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Directed by award-winning Australian writer and filmmaker Violeta Ayala and produced by Dan Fallshaw over the course of 2011-2015, The Bolivian Case follows three Norwegian teenage girls who are arrested with 22kg of cocaine in their luggage in a foreign country. The documentary explores the misdirected way in which the much relied upon media constructed stories based…
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Exhibition on Screen is bringing The Impressionists and the Man who Made Them to Australian cinemas for a strictly limited time. Based on the Inventing Impressionism exhibition, which recently opened at the National Gallery London (in collaboration with the Musée du Luxembourg, Musée d’Orsay and Philadelphia Museum of Art), EXHIBITION ON SCREEN: The Impressionists and the…
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Hailed as the undisputed king of neo-classical shred guitar and named by Time as one of the ten greatest electric guitarists of all time, Yngwie J. Malmsteen is no stranger to accolades and critical acclaim. The Swedish born musician has mesmerised fans the world over with his technical ability and astonishing speed since his first…
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Talk about a super star collaboration… Australia’s Flume has enlisted the iconic vocals of Andrew Wyatt (Miike Snow) to deliver a killer track in “Some Minds”, which had its world premiere on triple j earlier today. There’s a special video to accompany the release, and it’s a collaboration between the Sydney Opera House, director Clemens…
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Image Credit: Daniel Boud It’s been reminded to me quite a few times – by the band and others – that I was the first person to ever publish written work about a group formerly known as The Preachers. It’s not something I bring up now because I feel I’m entitled to take some glory…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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….
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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:…
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