Adventure doesn’t come any bigger with Big Trouble In Little China kick starting the new In The House season next Friday! Catch John Carpenter’s energy-filled classic up on the big screen at Event Cinemas George St in Sydney on July 22 with martial arts, feuding demons, action-adventure and comedy! Join David “Quinny” Quinn from Supanova…
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With Pokémon Go‘s first update dropping on iOS this morning, we began to consider the sort of things we’d like to see in future updates. From interface changes to multiplayer functionality, we’ve aiming our Pokéballs high.
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The Australian Government has revealed the 58 recipients of Screen Australia’s Gender Matters: Brilliant Stories and Brilliant Careers, marking the largest cohort of projects funded in a single day in the agency’s history. A combined 45 story ideas and 13 industry projects led by Australian women will share in more than $3 million of funding….
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Escape the hustle and bustle of Sydney for a change of scenery to explore regional New South Wales. Bathurst is a mere three-hour drive from Sydney, offering a perfectly charming winter getaway. A town alive with history, culture, and a growing food scene, there’s something to see and do for everyone. An overnighter in Bathurst…
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On my last trip to the Hunter to cover the famous Hunter Valley food fight, I was lucky enough to sample more Hunter fare. I say Hunter fare here because even though it isn’t too far from Sydney (slightly more than a two hour drive), a lot of the food I tried tasted like an entirely…
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This time last year, I flew from the Calgary Stampede to Ottawa Bluesfest (both happening right now!) on board Air Canada‘s regular service between the two cities. Lucky enough to get bumped up to Business Class on the flight, here’s a look back at that journey. Airline: Air Canada Route: Calgary, Alberta to Ottawa, Ontario – AC118 Seat:…
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In August Sydneysiders will be treated to a very special production of My Fair Lady at the iconic, Sydney Opera House. But if audiences want to see two fair ladies then they have one very special opportunity; that is, to see Dame Julie Andrews and her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton live and in conversation. The…
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Breaking attendance predictions made for every year up until 2019, the 2016 Brisbane Anywhere Festival has cemented itself as one of the most successful in the festival’s history – excellent news, just as cuts to arts funding are already causing damage to the industry’s small to medium sector groups. Productions this year took place at abandoned…
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Twenty years of travellers’ tales have gone into British comedian Bill Bailey‘s latest show, Larks In Transit, which will be touring Australia and New Zealand later this year. His 15 date tour will see him travel around Australia, sharing tales from two decades as a comedian, from politics, to philosophy, to a painful encounter with Paul…
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With the immediate area surrounding Waterloo hotspot Abbotts Hotel becoming a hotbed of Pokémon activity, the team behind the pub have officially declared it a dedicated “PokéPub”, temping frenzied Pokémon Go players with special themed offers that will last all this week. It was only a matter of time before venues jumped on this whole…
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Premium food delivery service Deliveroo are prepping to unleash their Deliveroo Treat concept this Friday 15th July, offering to deliver free burgers from some of the best names in each city across Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane. For three hours, Deliveroo drivers will be riding around their service areas delivering freebies from the likes of Hashtag…
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As their 200th year anniversary celebration continues, Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden have welcomed in a new café from indulgent kings Piccolo Me; yeah, the same Piccolo Me that have perfected the Giant Deep-Fried Nutella Ice Cream Ball, and other lip-smacking treats. Not only have Piccolo Me opened up at the iconic location, but to celebrate…
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Unless you’ve had your head buried deep underground like a subterranean fungus, you’ll know that Canberra’s annual Truffle Festival, held over 12 weeks from June to August, is currently in full swing. Part of the festival includes a showcase of the nation’s best truffles at participating venues like Hotel Kurrajong Canberra and Vibe Hotel Canberra Airport….
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As if a three-hour set from The Cure and finally witnessing The Avalanches post-Wildflower wasn’t enough, this year’s Splendour in the Grass is promising its biggest food and lifestyle line-up to date. Following the success of having Mary’s up there last year (in the Gold Bar though), Secret Sounds have tapped into some of the…
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With the recent release of his fourth studio album Blank Face, Black Hippy emcee ScHoolboy Q has announced that he’ll be touring Australia this spring, bringing his latest material and rich back catalogue to Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Perth, and This That festival in Newcastle. Fresh off what is perhaps his best and most realised…
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Splendour in the Grass is mere weeks away and the buzz is certainly building for what is going to be one of the biggest years in the festival’s recent history. With the likes of The Strokes, At The Drive-In, Sigur Rós and The Cure set to perform some surefire phenomenal sets (three hours of The Cure!), the names further down on the festival…
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18 year old Melbourne producer Vincent Sole has charmed his way on to our radar with this lush single in “Don’t Waste My Time”. Coming through out of the triple j Unearthed High ranks recently, Vincent stepped things up after the success of breakout single “Instinct” by linking up with Grammy-nominated engineer Andrei Eremin on “Don’t Waste My…
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Bearfoot have been working toward the completion of their new EP Tribe over recent months and in new single “Dreamer”, we’ve been given another lil’ insight into the Sunshine Coast group’s latest laid back, reggae/roots direction. As a follow up to the band’s popular single “Impolite”, released late last year, “Dreamer” stays true to Bearfoot’s well-cultivated musical…
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High profile releases from the likes of Kanye, Drake, and Beyoncé, plus show-stealers from Chance the Rapper, Skepta, Anderson .Paak and dvsn have fleshed out what has been a very strong six months for hip hop and R&B. We’ve also seen emerging talents like Gallant and Joyner Lucas, comebacks from Fat Joe and Maxwell, and…
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Despite the fact that the entire game is built around walking, Pokémon Go players are already coming up with creative ways to get out of doing so. Some of these methods will get you a soft ban from Niantic. Others seem to be working out okay but require some expensive accessories.
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Following a tease on Twitter last week, Blizzard have officially revealed the first character to join their team shooter Overwatch post-launch. Ana is a support class who wields a sniper rifle to heal allies at great range.
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Players of the iOS version of the wildly popular Pokémon Go can this morning grab the game’s version 1.0.1 update from the App Store. The update brings a number of stability improvements, and a fix for those concerned about the security of their Google accounts.
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Korean actor Lee Byung Hun is one of Asia’s most accomplished film stars. On July 5, he was honored at the New York Asian Film Festival for his portrayal of a gritty gangster for Inside Men. We sat down with Lee Byung Hun to discuss his selection criteria for new roles, including his highly anticipated…
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Despite The Legend of Tarzan barrelling into cinemas with a tonne of marketing, Finding Dory still managed to come out on top in this weeks box office figures. Dory racked up another AU$5 million but the real story is that in the U.S, it became the highest grossing domestic release of 2016, currently sitting on…
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The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) is quickly creeping up on us and those who are putting “the southern hemisphere’s greatest annual celebration of Indian cinema” together have announced a number of India’s finest actors, directors, producers, designers, critics and singers as special guests. The leading figures from the world’s biggest film industry will…
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Pokémon Go still storming the mobile app store charts, but its many technical issues are causing headaches for many players. Thankfully, developer Niantic appears to be onto already if a troubleshooter guide on the game’s official site is to believed.
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The Hayden Orpheum in Sydney (Cremorne) will be holding a special Q&A preview screening of Love & Friendship. The event will take place tomorrow, a full week ahead of the films theatrical release. Xavier Samuel, who plays Reginald DeCourcy will be on stage to answer questions. Based on Jane Austin’s novel, Love & Friendship follows Lady Susan Vernon…
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With Pokémon Go now available in Australia, New Zealand and the US, Niantic Labs and Nintendo have chosen to briefly halt the game’s global rollout to deal with its ongoing and significant server problems. The Wall Street Journal reports that Niantic and Nintendo have been working to resolve the server issues and are still poised to launch…
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CNBC is reporting that Nintendo’s share prices have seen a massive 25 percent spike since the worldwide rollout of Pokémon Go began last week. As of this morning, Nintendo’s share price is currently sitting somewhere in the neighbourhood of US$200 a share in Japan, adding an estimated US7.5 billion to the venerable game manufacturer’s market value.
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There’s something an uncanny quality to Our Kind of Traitor. It looks like cold war thriller, sounds like a cold war thriller but, when you get down to it, it’s not. Not really. It wears the trappings of the genre with pride but, by taking place in modern times, fails to do much beyond wear them….
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