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Brisbane Serenades returns to the Brisbane Festival this September!

The much-loved Brisbane Serenades returns in 2023 with both beloved programs and new surprises. Traversing the city from north, south, east and west, over 23 suburbs will take centre-stage for a celebration of music and community like no other and it is all FREE. Following a standout success last year, the Moorooka Block Party returns bigger and better than ever! Mosaic Multicultural Festival is back and Victoria Park becomes Brisbane residents’ stage for the Closing Concert with a new ...

Gran Turismo Movie Review

Accurate it is certainly not but it does provide a fun blast of racing histrionics amid a feel-good story of overcoming great obstacles to realise your dreams. Don’t be misled by the fact it is based on a true story and base your level of enjoyment on its sense of realism. This is pure fantasy stuff.   //   The real racing driver in question is Brit Jann Mardenborough who beat 90,000 other entrants in the GT Academy competition. He had no real racing experience but ...

Asteroid City Movie Review

That idiosyncratic nature plays out in the look of the sets and costumes, the colour palette and lighting, the dialogue and performance of the actors and the whimsical nature of the stories they tell. Seldom laugh-out-loud funny, the humour is too dexterous for that, this is the kind of mirth that builds most in remembrance.   //     Trying to reduce Asteroid City to a mere synopsis does it a disservice as it is a work filled with subtext, subversion and sublim...

Salamander is coming to the 2023 Brisbane Festival!

Time to go, Time to wake up Time to stand up and hold each other before it is too late Before there is nothing left Do we fight and stay? Do we make a change? Or do we adapt?   //     A dance-theatre visual feast, Salamander sees a warehouse at Northshore, Brisbane transformed into a fully immersive, climate-fiction dream-like world through light, sound, design, and movement. Es Devlin’s labyrinthian and kinetic sculptures live within a flooded ...

Check out the first look at the 2023 St. Ali Italian Film Festival Lineup!

The Festival is thrilled to welcome the wonderful and talented Italian-Australian food writer, TV producer and host Silvia Colloca as the 2023 Festival Ambassador. A great film lover, Silvia will be talking about her top picks plus her Italian heritage and will be in attendance to open the Festival in Sydney and Melbourne. Opening the 2023 Festival is the exciting drama THE LAST NIGHT OF AMORE (L'ultima notte di Amore) led by Italian superstar Pierfrancesco Favino. The stylish, Milan set ...

He’s Back!!!! Limited Screenings of Oldboy is coming to Dendy Cinemas Coorparoo!

OLDBOY blazed a trail at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival where it was lauded by the President of the Jury, Quentin Tarantino, and won the esteemed Grand Prix prize. Now restored & remastered, you don’t want to miss seeing this cult classic on the big screen! An average man is kidnapped and imprisoned in a shabby cell for 15 years without explanation. He then is released, equipped with money, a cell phone and expensive clothes. As he strives to explain his imprisonment and get his ...

Watch the new trailer for Loki – coming to Disney+ this October!

The series stars Tom Hiddleston, Sophia Di Martino, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Wunmi Mosaku, Eugene Cordero, Rafael Casal, Tara Strong, Kate Dickie, Liz Carr, Neil Ellice, with Jonathan Majors, Ke Huy Quan and Owen Wilson. Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead, Dan Deleeuw and Kasra Farahani direct episodes.   //   The head writer is Eric Martin. Kevin Feige, Stephen Broussard, Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Brad Winderbaum, Kevin R. Wright, Tom Hiddleston, Justin Benson & ...

Waltz into Dendy Cinemas with André Rieu in concert!

ANDRÉ RIEU'S 2023 MAASTRICHT CONCERT: LOVE IS ALL AROUND will be a musical feast with heart-warming pieces lovingly chosen by André himself, covering classics, popular sing-alongs, and delightful waltzes that make you want to dance.   //     Along with his beloved Johann Strauss Orchestra, André teams up with the charming Gospel Choir and special surprise guests, bringing you a refreshing, romantic, fun party. André Rieu's 2023 Maastricht Concert: Love Is ...

Watch the new trailer for Strays – coming to cinemas August 7!

When Reggie (Will Ferrell), a naïve, relentlessly optimistic Border Terrier, is abandoned on the mean city streets by his lowlife owner, Doug (Will Forte; The Last Man on Earth, Nebraska), Reggie is certain that his beloved owner would never leave him on purpose. But once Reggie falls in with a fast-talking, foul-mouthed Boston Terrier named Bug (Oscar® winner Jamie Foxx), a stray who loves his freedom and believes that owners are for suckers, Reggie finally realizes he was in a toxic ...

Brisbane Festival unveils a World-Class 2023 Program!

The fourth program from Artistic Director Louise Bezzina simultaneously welcomes the world and spotlights Brisbane on the global stage across 23 days of evocative, accessible, and uplifting work. Brisbane’s premier arts venues and some of the city’s most iconic locations will stage more than 1000 performances – 230 of which are free – including 19 world premieres, two Australian premieres and 11 Queensland premieres. Brisbane Festival will provide employment opportunities for ...