If you’re a Sons of Anarchy fan, especially an Australian based one, the next few months are set to be a mixture of emotions. Of course, the highly anticipated seventh and final season of the wildly popular FX show is premiering in September, which is exciting but sad at the same time. If you’re just…
Read moreUmbrella Entertainment has announced that the Australian film The Babadook will be released in Australian cinemas on the 22nd of May 2014. The film premiered to highly positive reviews at the Sundance Film Festival earlier in the year and has also been tipped for a European release this year. The buzz surrounding the film is…
Read moreWere you aware of the centuries old space dust you breathe in daily? Or the billions of micro-organisms thriving on your body right now? Mysteries of the Unseen World 3D brings these little known facts to life, uncovering an invisible world, too fast, too slow and too small for the human eye. A feat of…
Read moreCertainly the most noteworthy of The Feed’s headlines for its February 25 episode was the proposed fatwa being put on a mission to Mars by the United Arab Emirates. Whilst this sounds like an Onion article or a bizarre pulpy science fiction plot, this is actually the situation many Muslims may find themselves in. Not…
Read moreReleased internationally today was the brand new trailer for the 2014 American rebirth of Godzilla. The film is set to hit cinemas in Australia on May 15, 2014. You can watch the brand new trailer below, as well as a special sound wave clip that was released yesterday to show off Godzilla’s mighty roar. As…
Read moreWhen I think about movies like Non-Stop, I like to imagine a bunch of guys in suits sitting around a table, somewhere in a Hollywood boardroom, with an elaborate multiple choice flowchart spread across the table. It’s littered with options, and the guys around the table work their way across and choose from the options. “So……
Read moreA brand new, epic three minute trailer has been released for the anticipated sequel, Spider-Man 2: Rise of Electro, released in Australian cinemas on April 17th. The film stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, Paul Giamatti and Sally Field. Watch the trailer here and get excited! Who doesn’t love Spider-Man? We’ve always…
Read moreBiopics focusing on the lives of Australia’s music artists come few and far between. There tends to be a focus on criminals, which started with the string of Ned Kelly films (our first ever feature was The Story of the Kelly Gang), continuing over the last few years with the success of the Underbelly series…
Read moreFrom the first book that kicked off the international best-selling series and has sold over 8 million copies in print across 35 countries, Vampire Academy the film is being released in cinemas nation wide on March 6. From the director of Mean Girls and starring Aussie Lucy Fry, Zoey Deutch (Beautiful Creatures) and Sarah Hyland…
Read more‘Claimed’ wasn’t all about our three new characters as most would have expected; instead, Rick’s plight was the highlight of this episode The Walking Dead. In continuing the bleak prospects that come with separation – and both the human and zombie threat that doesn’t allow for any sort of rest – we were split between…
Read moreIt’s always a joy when an Australian film debuts at the top of the box office, and this past weekend was such a time. Home-grown horror sequel Wolf Creek 2, starring John Jarratt and Ryan Corr, took the #1 spot at the Australian box office over the weekend, beating out Mark Wahlberg-led war film Lone Survivor. The film took…
Read moreThe Supanova Pop Culture Expo is soon to be kicking off for another year, hitting up the Gold Coast and Melbourne in April for two massive conventions. Featuring a great line-up of actors, voice artists, authors and more from all over the place, fans of sci-fi, fantasy, graphic novels, manga and everything else in between…
Read moreThursdays come around so quick eh? And with it comes the week’s last episode of The Feed. This episode took a slightly different approach – with a core focus on the third anniversary of the Christchurch earthquake (yes that was somehow three years ago). Before that though- we were treated, if that is the right…
Read moreAs we come to the end of the January/February “catch up” period for American films that were released at the end of last year in their home country (it could also be called “Oscar fever”, if you’re so inclined), we bring you the 14 films we can’t wait for over the year ahead. There are…
Read moreGiven the success in recent years of ridiculous Z-Grade giant animal films such as Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus and giant animal disaster films likeSharknado, the straight-to-DVD market has been flooded with similar titles. The latest is Dracano. As in Dragon Volcano. Get it? Yep, that’s what we’re dealing with here. Dracano introduces us to Professor Simon Lowell (Corin Nemec), who has…
Read moreWell, that was surprising. Not the fact that Rake is back on the streets— that was to be expected— but the fact that everything in his outside life has become so egregiously shithouse in such a short amount of jail-time. This is the episode where Cleaver Greene gets thrown into a landfill-sized hole, so that…
Read moreThe transitional space of the open road appears to be the setting most conducive to good storytelling for director, Alexander Payne. He gave us a disheveled Jack Nicholson on a mission to travel across the US to sabotage his daughter’s approaching wedding in About Schmidt (2002), a heartbroken Paul Giamatti taking a wine connoisseur’s tour…
Read moreWith the writers seemingly placing character development first, ‘Inmates’ continues the artful slow-burn that worked so well in ‘Alive,’ but this time they have four disparate storylines to play around with. Despite multiple arcs not working so well in previous seasons, ‘Inmates’ handles the situation quite nicely, patching each tale together with not-so-subtle easter eggs,…
Read moreIt is rare that a film returns to the #1 spot at the box office, and it is even rarer that the film is an R-rated three hour crime epic about stock brokers. But Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street has reclaimed the top spot from the RoboCop remake, which debuted last week. Wolf has been an incredible success, having…
Read moreI think we would all agree that the following conditions must be met for a film to be considered a success: it must be entertaining, have a comprehensible plot and be populated with interesting characters. But sometimes a film comes along that fails to meet even one of those conditions.Outpost 3: Rise of the Spetsnaz is…
Read moreFans of Parks and Recreation will be looking forward to this one – a feature film that features both Adam Scott and Amy Poehler – A.C.O.D.! The film, which was a hit at Sundance, is getting an Australian release on Blu-ray and DVD on March 12, 2014 from Paramount Home Media Distribution. Digital and Video…
Read moreToday marks the release of the indie film It’s a Disaster on DVD and Blu-Ray in Australia. Before the end of last year, I caught up with David Cross, star of the film – alongside the likes of Julia Stiles and America Ferrera – to talk about the release of the Todd Berger helmed film,…
Read moreArmed with the tagline, “A funny thing happened on the way to rehab”, this film tells the story of piano prodigy, Eli Bloom (Jesse Eisenberg) who desperately seeks to get his mother, Penny (Melissa Leo), checked into rehab. And he needs to do this in time to get to a very important audition for a…
Read moreThe 2012 Academy Award-nominated documentary The Act Of Killing directed by Joshua Oppenheimer has now been released on DVD and Digital thought Madman. This chilling and inventive documentary, executive produced by Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man) and Errol Morris (The Fog of War), the unrepentant former members of Indonesian death squads are challenged to re-enact some…
Read moreStylish and brutal, Lone Survivor refuses to hold your hand during its harrowing 121 minutes, while you gasp and squirm at the incredibly uncomfortable fate of four U.S Soldiers deployed in the lonely mountains of Afghanistan. Based on the true story of 2005’s failed Operation Red Wings, this film handles the unquestionable dangers of Navy…
Read moreIt was one of the most anticipated episodes of the series and for one enormous reason: Prince. All right, maybe two: the “l word” was in there as well. The episode started out strong, laughs right from the get go before Jess and Cece regaled the boys with a curious anecdote, ending in an invitation…
Read moreFor those of you who haven’t yet hopped on board with Sleepy Hollow I’m here to once again regale you with a recap of episodes to give you a chance to check the series out now that it’s completed all 13 episodes. Episodes 1-5 of Season One introduced us to Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison) and…
Read moreThe Feed kicked off the second week of its second season with what seemed like a cruel tease of Back to the Future technology only to lead us into decidedly heavier news. The riots and breakouts on the Manus Island detention centre are troubling and depressing realities to our current asylum seeker policy are always…
Read moreWhat was probably the heaviest (and last) episode of the week saw the crew from The Feed tackling pig hunting, sexual abuse, Olympic hanky panky and nudist churches. Just another evening on SBS2! The lead headlines are always the least fascinating part of the show, yet Marc Fennell manages to get the show cooking with…
Read moreThe Iris’ Larry Heath meets Cuban Fury star Nick Frost at the Sydney, Australia premiere on Valentine’s Day, 2014. They talk about Nick’s return to Australia, the film (a dancing romantic comedy!), writing drunk e-mails and potential future films that may or may not involve drinking beer in pools and wrestling… Cuban Fury is released…
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