Last year’s If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late was a bold move for Drake, moving away from the ultra-relatable, slightly neurotic rapper-singer and towards something closer to street-minded hip hop, taking aim at critics over dark, brooding beats that were glued together by an adrenaline-inducing energy. It was mafioso rap for the selfie generation,…
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There are very few sequels that can better the original, and in the case of comedies, even less so. Films like Ghostbusters 2, the Hangover sequels, the American Pie films and others all failed to capture and improve on what made the originals successful in the first place. When I watched Bad Neighbours 2: Sorority Rising,…
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It’s been reported that Russell Crowe will be joining Tom Cruise in the film The Mummy. Crowe will be playing the role opposite to Cruise’s character in the film, set to be directed by Alex Kurtzman. Word is that Crowe will be playing the famed Dr Jekyl – a role that seems more than worthy…
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Australian comedy-drama, The Dressmaker, starring academy-award-winner Kate Winslet, is proving to be a huge favourite with at-home audiences, with sales of the film hitting 140,000 units in Australia in the first seven weeks of release. To put that in perspective, that makes The Dressmaker the 4th highest selling drama over the past six years and highest selling…
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The 63rd Sydney Film Festival announced their new Beyond Cinema programme this week, including three free immersive film experiences combining cutting edge screen culture with new technologies designed to challenge and inspire. At the heart of the programme, in Sydney’s Lower Town Hall, the virtual reality installation Down the Rabbit Hole will screen nine virtual…
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Broad Green Pictures have reportedly gotten the film rights to the John Leake true crime novel Entering Hades, which will be turned into a film starring Michael Fassbender as Jack Unterweger, who was a well-respected Austrian author/journalist investigating murders and secretly killing people at night. In this chilling tale, Unterweger manages to dump eleven dead…
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Exciting news for comic book fans. Most notably known for Kick-Ass and Kingsman, author Mark Millar has partnered up with producers Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum to work on the latest film adaptation of Empress. Stuart Immonen was the co-creator of the comic which told the story on a wife of a Ming, the Merciless-style galactic…
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The second instalment of Paramount Picture’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live-action reboot was given a new trailer this week. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows sees the four titular turtles, Leonardo (Pete Ploszek), Raphael (Alan Ritchson), Michelangelo (Noel Fisher) and Donatello (Jeremy Howard), fight their way out of the shadows to battle a roster of…
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In an interview with Uproxx, Joe and Anthony Russo have confirmed that the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War – Part 1 and Avengers: Infinity War – Part 2 are set to be re-titled. Despite their titling, the pair of upcoming Avengers films are set to be entirely different stories rather than a single epic two-part story –…
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Florence Foster Jenkins opens with St Clair Bayfield (Hugh Grant) in front of a red curtain, reciting a little Shakespeare. We soon find out he’s just waiting to introduce Florence (Meryl Streep) his wife and client, who is starring in a cabaret of her own design for the patrons of her music club. The truth…
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When it comes to rich cultural history, there are few cities in America with more to offer than San Antonio, Texas. Situated less than 90 minutes drive from Austin, Texas, San Antonio used to be one of the State’s best kept secrets. But now, it’s one of the fastest growing cities in the USA, with…
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Before heading to Austin, Texas for SXSW last year, I took a few days to explore Dallas. Flying out from LAX after landing on an early weekday morning from a long-haul flight out of Sydney, I was able to test out Virgin America‘s domestic flight service for the first time! Airline: Virgin America Route: Virgin America…
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From forth the beaches of Sydney springs greatness, and his name is Flume. The country’s biggest electronic producer at the minute has just announced a huge world tour to support his sophomore album SKIN and this one looks to be one for the books. While the Australian dates fall at the end of 2015 in November and…
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The music conference and festival The Great Escape is one of the most popular annual events in all of the UK and Europe – serving as a place for hundreds of bands from around the region, and the world (including plenty of Australians) to make their mark. Last year, I discovered artists like Jack Garratt,…
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It was an easy 15 minute walk from Sydney’s Central Station to our home for the weekend at Adge Apartment Hotel in the heart of hip Surry Hills. “Home” is the definitely the right word to use, as our stay at Adge felt more like a home away from home (please excuse the cliché) then…
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Before any actor graces the stage, the apartment is full of stories. The cracks on the wall tell us it was built-to-last a long time ago. The beaded curtains in the doorway are permanently drawn to the side; while charming, they quickly became a nuisance. By the red corduroy couch, there’s a pair of boots…
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Irish theatre group Fishamble are bringing their hit romantic comedy Swing to the Brisbane Powerhouse as part of a ten venue Australian tour, slated to play the Brisbane River venue in late May. Following the tale of Joe and May, the show tells the story of two strangers who meet at a swing dance class. Swing…
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Adelaide’s Rin McArdle find herself in Toronto this week for Canadian Music Week, the songwriter performing at the Indica Records showcase tonight! Get to know a bit more about Rin in our ‘Getting to Know You’ spotlight series… Introduce yourself! Hello, I’m Rin McArdle and I’m an musician from Adelaide in South Australia! Have you played…
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The distorted, crackling opening notes of music got me first. As “Tom Tom” continued to unfurl, I became more and more hooked. The latest from Holy Fuck is an exciting indicator of where the band is headed on new album Congrats and this week, the film clip for the single has been one we’ve hit…
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If you haven’t heard of Alex Reade, you’re goddamn about to. The front woman of Melbourne post-hardcore group Drown This City has a voice to be reckoned with and in their latest single, “I’m Not Divided”, the vocalist absolutely shines. Rolling with the punches of being part of (still) heavily male-dominated genre is a facet of Reade…
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The Creases are -finally- back with some new music and some tour dates you’d be silly to miss. The Brisbane band have released their single, “Impact”, this week and it’s a great return and step forward for the group. The sound is loud and boisterous as you’d expect, while the songwriting has stepped up and…
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Songwriters are encouraged to enter the 2016 Vanda & Young Songwriting Competition, with entries now open for another year! As with previous years, the winning writer/s will take home a $50,000 prize thanks to APRA AMCOS and Alberts, while two separate cash prizes are up for grabs for the runners up – $10,000 and $5,000,…
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Harrison Craig, the winner of the second series of The Voice, is one of the top performers set to perform Surfers Paradise LIVE – a free three-day musical event celebrating a diversity of genres on the Gold Coast – it really is set to be something spectacular. Currently hard at work on his third studio…
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Local Natives’ 2013 LP Hummingbird was one of the most emotive and consistently strong releases of the year, and they’ve just returned with single “Past Lives”, the first cut from their forthcoming third album. The LA based four piece have consistently evolved their sound since debut Gorilla Manor in 2009, and while “Past Lives” is…
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Splendour in the Grass-bound artist Jack Garratt is on the home stretch of an American tour when I catch up with him. Having seen the UK artist perform briefly while at SXSW, it didn’t take long for me to realise just how much of an impact he had made with the release of debut album Phase. A…
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Netflix’s charged drama Bloodline is releasing on DVD and Blu-ray this week and to celebrate we have an exclusive deleted scene from the first season to share. The scene is entitled “The Secrets We Keep” and is one of several deleted scenes included as part of the releases’ special features. Check it out below: Season…
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The Blues Brothers will return to primetime tv, with co-creators Dan Aykroyd and Judy Belushi set to pitch to networks this month, Rolling Stone reports. After 38 years since the pair’s official debut on Saturday Night Live in 1978, Aykroyd and Belushi will return to the screen, teaming up with Saturday Night Live original writer Anne Beattes and animators…
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The History Channel will tell the true story of Mexico’s drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in drama series #Cartel. The show is written by the co-creator of Netflix’s Narcos, Chris Brancato, and is co-produced by ABC Signature, the cable branch of the ABC studios and A+E Studios. #Cartel reveals the events that took place during El Chapo’s 25-year long reign…
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ABC has announced that locally-produced drama series The Doctor Blake Mysteries will be back for a fifth season. After series four’s successful run (with a whopping average of 1.67 million viewers), Craig McLachlan returns as police surgeon Dr Lucien Blake and Nadine Garner as his trusty housekeeper Jean. Loyalty and friendships will be tested and…
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If you have yet to watch the compelte Star Wars saga through in “The Machete Order”, this May 4th is absolutely the right time to try it. Coined by blogger Rod Hilton, the Machete Order is an approach to rewatching the Star Wars films in a way that seeks to minimize some of the prequel’s…
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