Brisbane International Film Festival – Aquarius: Dreamers, tree-huggers and radical ratbags Movie Review
The festival was created with the help of the National Union of Australian University Students and Nimbin was their third edition after events in Sydney and Melbourne. It was, however, the first event under the Aquarius moniker. Its stated intent was to celebrate alternative thinking and sustainable lifestyles and lasted for ten days. It is credited for starting Australia's hippie movement.
This doco tells the story through archival footage and interviews with event organisers, perform...
Brisbane International Film Festival – Teaches of Peaches Movie Review
The documentary Teaches of Peaches tells this story in her own words and the words of friends mixed with archival live footage and well-known video clips. Her journey has been a fascinating one and her bravery in not following expectations shows a true punk rock spirit. Few in the music business have been this courageous or immune to the expectations of others.
Her concerts are such a joyous communal experience because they are so inclusive. Looking out into her audience will defy your ...
Brisbane International Film Festival – Daddio Movie Review
The set-up is basic as we catch a preoccupied-looking Johnson exiting the airport and grabbing a cab from the rank to transport her back into Manhattan. Behind the wheel is Clark (Penn) a twenty-plus-year veteran of driving people where they want to go. He is a keen observer of the human condition and those decades have not been wasted.
They soon strike up a conversation that will slowly reveal hidden secrets and expose the depths of their internal conflicts. It is fascinating watching, ...
Adolescent Wonderland – Solo Exhibition by Naomi Hobson is coming to JWAC!
Flying Arts Alliance is thrilled to announce Adolescent Wonderland, a solo exhibition by acclaimed Indigenous artist Naomi Hobson, will run 4 - 18 November at Judith Wright Arts Centre. This deeply personal and vibrant exhibition offers a window into Hobson’s unique artistic vision and her connection to community, culture, and country.
Naomi Hobson, a multi-disciplinary artist, engages audiences with her work in painting, photography, and ceramics. A winner of The Mervyn Moriarty Landscape ...
A Terrifying Theatre Takeover is coming to Dendy Cinemas this Halloween!
It's time for the third annual Halloween House of Horror event at the haunted house of Dendy Cinemas.
At Dendy Cinemas Coorparoo, we’ll be featuring six spooky horror films, including cult classics and more modern must sees. Take your pick from Japanese Language horror AUDITION; the 1922 Horror original NOSFERATU; the 4K Restoration for the 20th Anniversary of SHAUN OF THE DEAD – 20 BLOODY YEARS; the 50th Anniversary screening of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE; or Halloween Classics THE ...
Find your zen when La Boite stages the hilarious “Yoga Play”!
A stellar cast – including Brisbane stars Andrea Moor and Thomas Larkin – bring the razor-sharp comedy to life at La Boite’s iconic Roundhouse Theatre, alongside Sydney darlings Jemwel Danao, Nat Jobe and Camila Ponte-Alvarez.
Moor is Joan, a savvy businesswoman hired to revitalise a cult-ish yoga apparel company in the wake of a scandal involving its former CEO.
Yet, underneath the seemingly serene surface lies a cesspool of misconduct, plummeting sales, cultural appropriation, ...
Godzilla Day 70th Anniversary Preview Screening is coming to Dendy Cinemas Coorparoo 🦖
It’s also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama, made in Japan at a time when the country was reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing in the Pacific.
Its rampaging radioactive beast, the poignant embodiment of an entire population’s fears, became a beloved international icon of destruction.
Dendy is proud to present the original 1954 Japanese version on the big screen, restored in glorious 4K. See it first on National Godzilla Day Nov 3, before it’s unleashed for ...
Special Q&A Preview Screening of You Should Have Been Here Yesterday is coming to Dendy Coorparoo!
Compiled from over 200 hours of home movies, iconic documentaries and restored 16mm footage by the Surf Film Archive, this evocative and poetic homage, set to a killer original soundtrack from Headland, will transport you through time back to the 1960s and 70s.
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Narrated by surfing fans and heroes such as Tim Winton and Wayne Lynch, the compelling documentary YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN HERE YESTERDAY uses beautifully restored, breathtaking imagery and powerful stories to ...
Yvonne Rainer – Everything is a Performance is coming to the Australian Cinémathèque!
This program brings together the seven feature films that Rainer directed between 1972 and 1996. Her films blend archival footage, reconstructions, still photography and innovative audiovisual approaches to explore the personal and the political. They are spirited and vital works, brimming with droll humour and literary sophistication. Screening alongside these films is the impressionistic documentary Rainer Variations 2002, which explores Rainer’s life and work while playfully adopting ...
Star-studded 2024 Russell Hobbs British Film Festival line up has been announced!
Opening this year’s festival is the Australian Premiere of BLITZ, Steve McQueen's visually stunning period drama depicting pivotal moments of World War II in London and starring Saoirse Ronan, Paul Weller and brilliant newcomer Elliot Heffernan. Closing the festival is another exciting exclusive, the premiere of the highly anticipated WE LIVE IN TIME. With beautifully nuanced performances from Oscar nominees Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield, this heart rendering romance delves into the ...
