year : 2019 713 results

Archie Brothers Cirque Electriq opens at Toombul on November 14!

Archie Brothers will be a jewel in the crown of Toombul Shopping Centre’s new entertainment and dining precinct, UPSTAIRS, when it launches with arcade games galore, theme park adventures, trippy virtual reality experiences, bowling and dodgems, not to mention the insane cocktails and rip-snorter of a menu. There’s literally enough bells and whistles to keep you occupied for days (and nights). With that in mind, we’ve put together some good ol’ fashioned Top 5 lists to help you ...

Russian Film Festival – Beanpole Movie Review

Iya Sergueeva (Viktoria Miroshnichenko) and Masha (Vasilisa Perelygina) have returned from the front to a war revenged Leningrad. Iya or Beanpole works in a hospital and suffers from severe PTSD. Masha has entrusted Iya with her baby Pashka (Timofey Glazkov) until she returns from Berlin. Upon arrival in Leningrad she is confronted by the loss of her child. This is the tale of how these two women deal with the after effects of having their lives completely changed and having their hopes ...

Awesome Ocean Party is coming to the Brisbane Powerhouse this month!

She invites you, her party guests, into the depths of her three hearts. Through song, storytelling and ocean-themed everything she weaves together a tale of love, loss, longing and legends of amphibious family histories. An exploration into our need for human connection, it asks: how can we transform our pain and fear into vulnerability and courage allowing us to be imperfectly human, together?   //   Awesome Ocean Party was nominated for Best Cabaret at Melbourne ...

Arctic Justice Movie review

Jeremy Renner does the voice of Swifty, an Arctic Fox trying to be a big dog. Those dogs in question pull sleds with the Arctic town’s mail service and are heroes to the small animal population. Swifty’s small stature makes him the underdog, underfox? of the piece.   //   The dialogue is rather simplistic and the situations are not overly complicated. It’s presented as a quant and easily digestible story and there is an absent of the adult innuendo that marks most ...

The Irishman Movie Review

Based on the 2004 book, I Heard You Paint Houses by a former homicide prosecutor, Charles Brandt, it focuses on the life of mob hitman Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran played by Robert De Niro. In a confession given after the book was published, Sheeran claims to have been the hitman behind the murder and disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa who is played by Al Pacino. Spoiler alert, his body is not buried under the turf at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.   //   The film is ...

Last Christmas Movie Review

Struggling to recover from a major surgery and enduring a succession of one night stands, she’s a mess. Her self-destructive and selfish streak has alienated her from almost all her friends (and their husbands) and she’s on the outs with her family as well. Hitting a new low by becoming homeless, she really does need a Christmas miracle.   //   Enter Tom (Henry Golding) a mysterious man she meets outside her place of employment. He gets her and her wise cracking ...

Sleaford Mods 2020 Australian Tour

As one of the most important, politically charged and thought-provoking bands in music today, Sleaford Mods have been running crass but clever commentary on The People’s discontent, their five critically acclaimed albums a pre-Boris crystal ball of impending doom. Stumbling into the music scene in 2013 at a time of political and creative austerity, their breakthrough album ‘Austerity Dogs’ surprised many and caught the moment, spearheading a punk renaissance and paving the way for ...

Doctor Sleep Movie Review

It picks up after the original film when we touch bases with the child Danny as he enters adulthood. His gifts have not made his life easy and he spends his days drinking, fighting and living a life of quiet despair. He relocates to an out of the way town, where the kindness of a stranger has a positive effect on his life.   //   Danny (Ewan McGregor) now lives a sober and quiet life until he is made aware of the evil temptress, Rose The Hat (Rebecca Ferguson) and Abra ...

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons is coming to La Boite

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons imagines a world where we’re forced to say less. It’s about what we say and how we say it; about the things we can only hear in the silence; about dead cats, activism, eye contact and lemons, lemons, lemons, lemons, lemons.   //   Under Matt Seery’s incisive direction, La Boite’s Young Artist Company will deconstruct and reconstruct the work as an ensemble of twelve performers, taking on Steiner’s sharp, dystopian two-hander ...

Watch the new trailer for the hardcore new vision of The Grudge — in cinemas January 30!

Directed by Nicolas Pesce, The Grudge stars Andrea Riseborough, Demián Bichir, John Cho, Betty Gilpin with Lin Shaye and Jacki Weaver. With a screenplay by Nicolas Pesce and a story by Nicolas Pesce and Jeff Buhler, The Grudge is based on the film “Ju-On: The Grudge” written & directed by Takashi Shimizu.   //   After a young mother murders her family in her own house, a single mother and young detective tries to investigate and solve the case. Later, she ...