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Check out the Fun House at the Brisbane Festival!

From the creators of sell-out festival sensations Blanc de Blanc and LIMBO comes a brand new show full of exhilaration, exaltation and the best kind of inflation. This is fun on a BIG scale. Watch as a cast of international performers creates a pop-up technicolour world before your very eyes and then invite you in to explore.   //   Featuring the music of viral YouTube sensation DJ Pogo, pale-faced harlequin Spencer Novich, multi-award winning star of Kracken Trygve ...

Shakespeare like it’s 1614 – Pop-up Globe Coming to Melbourne!

It will pop-up, be amazing and then disappear again. Epic battles. Laugh-out-loud comedy. Dazzling special effects. Elaborate costumes. Spectacular dances. Sword fights in full suits of armour. This is Shakespeare like it’s 1614.   //   Don’t miss the immersive experience of Shakespeare performed in the space for which it was written. This isn’t dusty Shakespeare. This is now. Alive. Like a party. The game’s afoot… Pop-up Globe 21 September – 12 ...

Watch the New mother! Featurette – In Cinemas September 14

From Darren Aronosfky, director of Requiem For A Dream & Black Swan, Academy Award ® winners Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem star in mother! A couple’s relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.   //   Mother stars Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, and Michelle Pfeiffer in this Darren Aronofsky film – in cinemas September 14! www.facebook.com/OfficialMotherMovie

Tash Sultana Homecoming Tour This November/December

Moving through arena sized venues, starting at the Adelaide Entertainment Theatre on the 18th November, continuing to the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on the 1st December and finishing up in her home town of Melbourne at the Margaret Court Arena on the 14th December. She will be joined by likeminded strummers Pierce Brothers and forest ravers Willow Beats for a celebration of musical freedom and instrumental virtuosity. Tash Sultana has spent the last 18 months collecting fans and selling ...

Watch the New Trailer for The Snowman – in Cinemas October 9!

When an elite crime squad’s lead detective (Fassbender) investigates the disappearance of a victim on the first snow of winter, he fears an elusive serial killer may be active again.   //   With the help of a brilliant recruit (Ferguson), the cop must connect decades-old cold cases to the brutal new one if he hopes to outwit this unthinkable evil before the next snowfall. The Snowman is in Cinemas October 9 2017. www.facebook.com/thesnowmanmovie

Listen to the new The Barr Brothers single – It Came To Me!

The driving, ecstatic ‘It Came to Me’ begins with a squall of guitar and a rush of drums, quickly formed into a mean, bluesy riff textured with classical acoustic harp.  Brad Barr’s voice distorts to a rasp, telling the tale of a Zen-like quest for answers to the questions of the universe. "Since we were kids, Brad and I would sit down at our instruments and, without speaking, launch into playing loud rock and roll at high volume. It was probably in part to drown out the confusing ...

18th Lavazza Italian Film Festival

LIFF is thrilled to have Milan-born Italian/Australian actor Greta Scacchi on board as this year’s Festival Ambassador. She’ll be participating in Q&As at selected festival screenings of TENDERNESS (LA TENEREZZA), Gianni Amelio’s latest film, in which Scacchi features. Best known for her AFI Award-winning performance in Looking for Alibrandi, Scacchi also made a name for herself internationally in films such as White Mischief, Presumed Innocent and The Player. In 2013 she was ...

I Am Not Your Negro screening exclusively at ACMI

From acclaimed director Raoul Peck (The Man by the Shore, Lumumba, Murder in Pacot), I Am Not Your Negrobrings to life Remember This House, the unfinished manuscript of American novelist and intellectual James Baldwin. Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, this blistering film shares Baldwin’s personal experience of racism as considered through the lens of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcom X and Martin Luther King Jr. A most expertly crafted documentary of recent times I Am Not Your ...

Dendy Portside and National Theatre Live presents the two-part epic ANGELS IN AMERICA, starring Andrew Garfield!

Recognised as one of the great works of late 20th Century theatre, this landmark in LGBT theatre is set in 1980’s during the rise of the AIDS epidemic and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. It has as much to say now as it did then with respect to people’s rights, livelihood and feeling welcome in the world being compromised.   //   In this production, Tony & Olivier award winning Marianne ...

Watch the new Good Time Trailer – in Cinemas October 12!

With an award-winning score by ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER and breakout performances from Pattinson and Ben Safdie as Connie’s brother Nick, GOOD TIME recalls the grit and urgency of ‘70s New Hollywood films such as Taxi Driver, Mean Streets and Dog Day Afternoon. GOOD TIME also stars JENNIFER JASON LEIGH. GOOD TIME is anchored by a magnificent lead performance by ROBERT PATTINSON. As the city conspires against him, Pattinson’s breathless portrayal of Connie’s mounting desperation drives the ...