month : 05/2019 63 results

Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion Movie Review

The wonderful French comic books featuring Astérix and his friends have fuelled many a youngster’s imagination and sense of fun both here and abroad. This animated feature, Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion continues with those traditions. It is whimsical, irreverent and at times, completely bonkers.   //   The village elder Panoramix (Bernard Alane) falls from a tree while helping a young bird return to its nest and sustains a broken foot. This decline in ...

German Film Festival – 25KM/H Movie Review

This film lays out a well trodden road to follow but that doesn’t prevent it from being very entertaining. It’s filled with humour, pathos and ultimately the bonds of brotherly love. The soundtrack is filled with great songs by T-Rex, The Cure, Yo La Tengo, Sufjan Stevens as well as others and even though the film is spoken in German (with English subtitles) it is extremely accessible. This is the kind of film that will be an audience hit as it provides all the components of a good ...

Romeo and Juliet Theatre Review

The two leads are young and exciting and the veteran actors on stage are generous with both their presence and acting skills. The play features a very clever stage set up that appears very simple at first only to surprise with a depth of application. The use of stage props is excellent throughout as well. There are interludes of song that buttress the work with a fresh approach. Dressing the cast in skinny jeans and Chuck Taylors and doing away with the trappings of time and opulence ...

Rocketman Movie Review

Growing up the only child, Reginald Kenneth Dwight was a shy and awkward young child. With a free spirit mother and physically absent father, only his Grandmother was supportive. He took refuge in music and became very accomplished at a young age.   //   His early musical endeavours followed a familiar arc, learning the music business from the ground up via a succession of bands and backing gigs. When he started a writing partnership with lyricist Bernie Taupin, his ...

Herbie Hancock returns to Australia for a national tour!

Herbie Hancock is a true icon of modern music. Having transcended limitations and genres with his unmistakable voice, his illustrious career, now spanning into its sixth decade, has seen the “master of jazz” claim a staggering 14 Grammy® Awards including Album of the Year and a Lifetime Achievement, an Academy Award for his Round Midnight score, a Kennedy Centre Honours Award, five MTV Video Awards and six honorary doctorates. As the immortal Miles Davis said in his autobiography, ...

Watch the new trailer for Angel Has Fallen starring Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman!

After escaping from capture, he becomes a man on the run and must evade his own agency and outsmart the FBI in order to find the real threat to the President. Desperate to uncover the truth, Banning turns to unlikely allies to help clear his name, keep his family from harm and save the country from imminent danger.   //   Angel Has Fallen is directed by Ric Roman Waugh and stars Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, Jada Pinkett Smith, Lance Reddick, Tim Blake Nelson, Piper ...

Production has begun on the new Austrlaian feature film Black Water: Abyss – filming in South East Queensland!

Director and Producer team Andrew Traucki and Michael Robertson reunite and join Producers Neal Kingston and Queenslander Pam Collis to deliver an adrenalin charged sequel to the 2007 feature ‘Black Water’ which achieved both critical and box office success, as well as picking up several cinematic awards and leaving fans of the rogue predator genre hungry for more. Written by Sarah Smith (Bite Club, Winter, Wild Boys) and Ian John Ridley (Bite Club, Wentworth, Wanted), BLACK WATER: ...

Check out the new trailer for Blinded by the Light!

Blinded By The Light is in Cinemas August 22! www.facebook.com/UniversalPicturesAU

Magpie is coming to Brisbane Powerhouse this month

The home conjures echoes from her distant past: the muggy summers, the smell of rotting mangoes, and the perpetual arguments between her Romani mother and father. When she discovers her old journal; an innocent tapestry of ideas, drawings, and imaginings, Mordecai is drawn back to 1961 and a long-abandoned investigation into her parents’ unhappiness.   //   Pushed along by her childhood friend Splinter, Mordecai sets out to uncover the long dormant secrets that cursed ...

Check out the official trailer for the upcoming thriller Midsommar!

What begins as a carefree summer holiday in a land of eternal sunlight takes a sinister turn when the insular villagers invite their guests to partake in festivities that render the pastoral paradise increasingly unnerving and viscerally disturbing. From the visionary mind of Ari Aster comes a dread-soaked cinematic fairytale where a world of darkness unfolds in broad daylight.   //   MIDSOMMAR is written and directed by Ari Aster and stars Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, ...