The Moro Spanish Film Festival Announces First Highlights for 2020 Programme!
The following six titles are our first sneak peak into the curated programme which will screen nationally from 21 April exclusively at Palace Cinemas.
From Spain, the selection includes:
Oscar-winner Alejandro Amenábar’s exposé of the 1936 Spanish coup WHILE AT WAR (Mientras dure la Guerra). Filmed across Spain and Argentina, it reveals the personal side of politics through the eyes of writer Miguel de Unamuno.
Trapped inside a small apartment where hidden secrets slowly rise to ...
Disney On Ice presents Dare to Dream – coming to Brisbane this June!
General public tickets are now on-sale through Ticketek.
In this action-packed extravaganza, the beloved Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse will take families on a journey across raging seas and snow-covered mountains featuring Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Moana, Frozen, Tangled, Cinderella and Disney and Pixar’s Coco. Plus, for the very first time all the way from Hundred Acre Wood, special guests Winnie the Pooh and Tigger will get the families out of their seats and onto their feet ...
Céline Sciamma: Portrait of a Lady on Fire retrospective
Sciamma received widespread critical acclaim for her coming-of-age trilogy (Water Lilies 2007, Tomboy 2011 and Girlhood 2014), and has been highly sought after as a scriptwriter. She was awarded the Best Screenplay and Queer Palm awards at the most recent Cannes Film Festival for her directorial feature Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019.
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This program brings together Sciamma’s evocative cinematic style and distinct approach to filmmaking showcasing her works as ...
Ben Folds The Symphonic Tour is coming to Brisbane this March!
Folds, widely regarded as one of the major music influencers of our time, is a renowned pop artist who has also composed critically acclaimed classical works of his own, travelling the globe performing with some of the world’s best orchestras for over a decade.
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Over the years, Folds has created an enormous body of genre-bending music that includes pop albums with Ben Folds Five, multiple solo albums, and numerous collaborative records. His last album was a blend ...
Ásgeir touring Australia this May
Expertly composed and transcendental in approach, Ásgeir’s melancholic, electronic-folk and ambitious electro-pop beats penetrate a little deeper than most. His debut album soared to success in his native land, becoming the fastest selling debut from a homegrown artist in Iceland, breaking all previous records and outselling Björk and Sigur Rós.
The English language edition of his debut album In The Silence was spotlighted as triple j Feature Album in 2014. Both the album and its ...
Brisbane’s second Cinnabon bakery tops opening day sales globally!
The opening catapulted Cinnabon Garden City to the highest opening day sales in the history of the franchise worldwide, with over 6500 Cinnabon Rolls sold.
Cinnabon Franchisor and Bansal Group Director, Gaurav Bansal, was ecstatic with the turnout over the weekend and the love Queenslanders have for the brand. He added that sales have continued to stay strong throughout the week at both the Garden City and Toombul locations.
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“Our rolls made the perfect ...
The Neighbourhood Theatre Review
Different avenues to the same hopeful destination. Those paths are lined with obstacles of omission and the hurdles of acceptance. Sometimes it’s just an uncaring aside that cuts the deepest. Embracing a world view outside the easily known is often a step too far. Rattle the cage of easy avoidance.
Each remembrance carries the weight of deeply felt emotion, sometimes through appalling apathy, sometimes amid armed conflagration or even the deep desire for anonymity. After giving our ...
Supercell to challenge and inspire as the dance festival returns for fourth year!
Running from 21 to 29 February 2020, Supercell: Festival of Contemporary Dance will share its thoughtprovoking and innovative cultural showcase to the people of Brisbane as they take over iconic landscapes spanning workshops, talks, social gatherings and performances. In 2020, Supercell is free to the public thanks to the generous support of Brisbane City Council.
Spotlighting major home-grown and international dance companies including Gogi Dance Collective,
Australian Dance Party, ...
Paul McDermott & Gatesy are coming to the Brisbane Powerhouse
Best known as the middle-men of two of Australia’s greatest musical-comedy trios, Paul McDermott (Doug Anthony All-stars ) and Steven Gates (Tripod) lock harmonies and minds in one unmissable show. An evening of beauty and heartbreak, freshly-minted comedy concoctions, old squabbles and spontaneous nonsense.
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Don’t miss the chance to see these two extraordinary talents, together at last.
Paul McDermott & Gatesy
7-8 March 2020
Brisbane Powerhouse, ...
Speed: The Movie, The Play
Climb aboard our vintage Volvo for this shameless comedic homage to the 1994 action thriller, Speed, the film which proved once and for all the best drama is on public transport.
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After sell out seasons at Sydney Fringe and Perth Fringe World, this high-octane trip down the highway of 90s nostalgia makes an explosive return to the Brisbane Comedy Festival.
Warning: contains Hollywood-ish special effects and jokes about Keanu Reeves’ career.
Speed: The ...
