Author: Fergus Halliday

The first trailer for Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is here and it looks hilarious

Anticipation is high surrounding The Lonely Island‘s upcoming movie Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping and now that we’ve seen the first trailer, it’s hard to not jump on-board. Starring Andy Samberg as fictional popstar Conner4Real and Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone as his inner-circle. The jokes in this trailer all land pretty well and there are too many…

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Netflix’s Luke Cage gets a release date

Actor Mike Colter has announced that Marvel’s Luke Cage will be coming to Netflix audiences on September 30th of 2016. The actor himself made the revelation during the NYC-based premiere for the second season of Daredevil. Luke Cage is Netflix’s third Marvel-affiliated superhero series after Daredevil and Jessica Jones with the series itself following the titular Cage, an ex-convict with super-strength…

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Full House comes to Netflix

If you’ve been enjoying Fuller House on Netflix, we’ve got good news – the original Full House is now on the service too. Seasons 1-8 of the classic sitcom are now streaming on Netflix and are sure to make for great binge-watching material alongside the reboot. Full House originally aired in 1987 and stars John Stamos,…

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10 Things we learned from talking Making a Murderer with Charlie Pickering

Making a Murderer co-creators Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos stopped by Sydney this week for an exclusive talk as part of The Sydney Herald Spectrum Now Festival Presented by ANZ. Hosted by Charlie Pickering, it was a fascinating night of shared enthusiasm for the Netflix true crime series that released over the holidays. Theories were exchanged, Len Kachinsky’s name was…

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Spiderman revealed in new Captain America: Civil War trailer

Marvel’s latest trailer for Captain America: Civil War has been released – and it features the first appearance of Tom Holland as Spider-Man. Spider-Man aside, the trailer is loaded with great moments and callbacks to earlier Captain America films. It spends a bit more time fleshing out the nature of the disagreement between Tony Stark…

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Final pair of teasers and poster released for 10 Cloverfield Lane

J.J. Abrams‘ latest mystery box, 10 Cloverfield Lane,  will release this week and on the eve of this release, Bad Robot have let loose a final cryptic poster for the film, along with two more teasers. The first teaser is simply titled ‘Table’, check it out below. The other teaser, ‘Windows’, offers up a similarly enigmatic glimpse…

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Teaser trailer released for Stan’s upcoming Wolf Creek TV series

The six-part series, based on the Wolf Creek films, received a new teaser trailer today, giving us a first look at the series’ female lead. The Stan Original Series sees Eve (Lucy Fry) set out on a quest for revenge against the franchise’s infamous serial killer Mick Taylor (John Jarratt) after her family is murdered….

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Hugh Jackman returning to Australia for Eddie the Eagle premiere

Dexter Fletcher‘s Eddie The Eagle, starring Hugh Jackman and Taron Egerton, will premiere for Australian audiences this March with Jackman set to walk the red carpet. Two screenings are currently listed with Melbourne audiences able to see Jackman and the film on the 29th of March at 6PM at Village Cinemas Crown and Sydney getting a screening…

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TV Review: Better Call Saul , Season 2, Episodes 2-4 (USA, 2016)

Better Call Saul is unique among the cable-drama landscape in that it doesn’t go for the big dramatic stakes. When it comes to Vince Gilligan‘s follow-up/prequel to Breaking Bad, the smaller and more personal the stakes, the better. If the first four episodes of the show’s second season are any indication, Gilligan, Peter Gould, Bob Odenkirk and…

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ABC’s iView comes to Apple TV

Australia’s most popular video on demand service is now available to owners of 4th generation Apple TVs. According to ABC Head of TV Strategy and Digital Products, Rebecca Heap, “we’ve had strong audience demand for iview on the new Apple TV and have built an experience that makes it easier than ever to explore and watch the ABC’s…

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Season 6 of Game of Thrones is looking grim in all the right ways

After a number of behind-the-scenes stills and a teaser or two, the full trailer for the upcoming sixth season of HBO’s Game of Thrones is here. As far as trailers go, it’s one of their best. With the series set to overtake the George R. R. Martin‘s books this season, there are a lot of little details…

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New stills from Tim Burton’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children released

Tim Burton‘s film adaption of bestselling book Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is set to hit theaters in September and distributor Fox have released a trio of stills for the film. According to Burton, he was “immediately intrigued by the haunting and mysterious pictures in Ransom Rigg‘s novel and knew I wanted to tell the…

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Arrow‘s Stephen Amell is coming to Australia

It’s early days on this news but it looks like Arrow star Stephen Amell has confirmed that he’ll be making his first trip to Australia as part of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows press tour. Amell revealed the trip, along with the cancellation of his upcoming appearance at the Birmingham-based City of Heroes…

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Sandman film loses Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Less than a day after news broke that The Conjuring 2 screenwriter Eric Heisserer had joining the adaption of Neil Gaiman‘s long running comic series, news has broken that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is parting ways with the film. Gordon-Levitt and screenwriter David Goyer were regarded as the major creative figures behind recent efforts to free the film from ‘development-hell’ and move…

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Assassins Creed film is already getting a sequel

The Michael Fassbender-fronted adaption of Ubisoft’s historical open-world video game series isn’t due till December but 20th Century Fox and New Regency have already working towards releasing a sequel, The Tracking Board reports. It’s hard to know what to expect from Assassins Creed. Though we’ve gotten a few stills here and there from the film, no official trailers have yet…

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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. gets locked in for a fourth season

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. fans will be relieved to hear that the series has been renewed for another year. Despite the series’ rocky reception both in the States and abroad, it’s made some significant contributions to the greater Marvel Cinematic Universe – from introducing the superpowered Inhumans to continuing the fight against terrorist organization Hydra started in Captain…

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Five movies to see after Pride & Prejudice & Zombies

Five movies to see after Pride & Prejudice & Zombies – P&P&Z is coming out quite soon and a feature pulling together recommendations of similar adaptions blur the lines between fantasy, horror and historical fiction Van Helsing This Hugh Jackman-led horror-action flick blends together the stories of horror-fiction’s greatest monsters from Dracula to Frankenstein’s monster. It’s a little…

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Tina Fey and Margot Robbie turn the tables in new Whiskey Tango Foxtrot promo clip

Tina Fey and Margot Robbie are doing a lot of promotional interviews for the upcoming Whiskey Tango Foxtrot this week but in a new video released by Paramount they turn the tables on the journalists by conducting their own interviews. It’s a pretty fantastic clip, check it out below: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot hits Australian cinemas 12 May 2016. ———-…

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Lady Gaga confirms she’ll return for Season 6 of American Horror Story

Big news for American Horror Story fans this morning with Lady Gaga confirming in an interview with New York City radio station Z100 that she’d return to Ryan Murphy‘s horror anthology in 2016. Gaga joined the series to headline last year’s American Horror Story: Hotel as the enigmatic Countess to fill the void left by Jessica…

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Seven things we noticed after seeing The Force Awakens again at an outdoor cinema

Netting over $2 billion in the box-office, Star Wars: The Force Awakens was one of, if not the, biggest movie of last year. For such a big release, it only seemed right to go see it on one of the biggest screens in Sydney – the Moonlight Cinema. Revisiting Episode 7 – this time in a larger,…

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Film Review: Triple 9 (MA15+)(USA, 2016)

When it comes to modern crime thrillers, film sometimes has trouble competing with television. Each year sees dozens of TV series – prime-time, cable and otherwise – tackle the genre and for a film to really stand out against this herd and compete with stuff like True Detective or Luther, it has to go big or go home….

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Full trailer for Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters released

We got our first real taste of the Paul Feig-directed reboot of Ghostbusters, courtesy of the new trailer released this morning. The trailer wastes no time introducing and showing it’s four new leads – played by Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones – with the full film looking every bit as funny (and slime-filled) as…

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Six People We Want To See Alongside Tom Hardy in Mad Max: The Wasteland

Mad Max: Fury Road was arguably THE MOVIE of 2015. We named it our favorite film of 2015 and it’s easy to get excited about George Miller’s follow-up Mad Mad: The Wasteland. While all signs point to Charlize Theron‘s Imperator Furiosa being absent from this next film, Tom Hardy is set to reprise his role as…

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Stephen King’s The Dark Tower enters production with Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey as leads

After years of failed attempts, the film adaption of Stephen King‘s The Dark Tower looks like it will finally enter production. Idris Elba is set to play the lead role, a gunslinger named Roland while Matthew McConaughey is attached to play his enigmatic nemesis. Nikolaj Arcel is directing the film after working together with King on the…

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Netflix introduces Elektra in new Daredevil trailer

We’re practically counting the days before Marvel’s Daredevil returns for it’s second season and Netflix have released another trailer for fans to get excited over. Where the previous trailer focused on newcomer The Punisher (Joe Bernthal), this one is all about Elektra (Elodie Yung). Check it out below: Daredevil‘s second season launches through Netflix on the 18th of…

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The Lonely Island coming back to cinemas with Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

Musical and comedy group The Lonely Island are coming back to cinemas this year with the graciously-titled Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.  The film will go behind the scenes of the music industry as singer/rapper Conner4Real (Andy Samberg) faces a crisis of popularity after his sophomore album flops, leaving his fans, sycophants and rivals all wondering what…

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Rakhee Thakrar “hotly tipped” to become the next Doctor Who companion

While Doctor Who has found its next showrunner, the search for the Doctor’s next companion continues, with former-Eastenders star Rakhee Thakrar emerging as an early frontrunner. RadioTimes reported earlier today that Thakrar is on a shortlist of actresses being considered to fill the absence left by the departure of Clara (Jenna Coleman) at the end of the most-recent series….

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The Death Star Canteen is coming to Brisbane in May

English stand-up Eddie Izzard once famously joked about what Darth Varder and the stormtroopers would eat on board the iconic Death Star from Star Wars. In a routine titled Death Star Canteen, Izzard laid out a vision of sandwiches and coffee in a galaxy far, far away, not knowing that in 2016 the man behind Brisbane…

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SXSW recieves late addition in the form of Seth Rogen’s Sausage Party

SXSW has announced that a work-in-progress cut of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s upcoming animated feature Sausage Party will be screened at the convention. Featuring voice talent from comedy actors like Kristen Wiig, Paul Rudd, Nick Kroll and Jonah Hill, Sausage Party is an R-rated comedy that follows one sausage’s journey to learn the truth about…

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Full length trailer teases all the feels from the anticipated Pixar sequel Finding Dory

Pixar’s upcoming Finding Dory debuted a brand new earlier today. The trailer showcases more of the beautiful animation we can expect from the film, and gives us more insight into the main storyline of the film – the quest for the forgetful Dory to find her parents. You might also learn a thing or two about…

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