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The Unfortunate Return of the Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour is coming to QPAC this March!

The tour marks Weird Al’s long-anticipated return to the world stage with his original band of four decades, where they have performed at such iconic venues as the Hollywood Bowl, Radio City Music Hall and Forest Hills Stadium, and most recently at The Kennedy Center in Washington DC and New York City’s Carnegie Hall. This tour is a rare opportunity to get up close and personal with this legendary performer. Opening the show is Al’s long-time friend, the legendary comedian Emo ...

The Fabelmans Movie Review

The story begins in a New Jersey cinema where a very young Sammy Fabelman (Mateo Zoryan) experiences his first big screen film and it’s a life-changing event. His parents' father Burt (Paul Dano) and mother Mitzi (Michelle Williams) are doing their best to help their young son cope with the anxieties of his youth.   //   As we transition to an older Sammy now played by Gabriel LaBelle, we see his progress as an aspiring auteur. At this point in the film, it becomes a ...

Mummies Movie Review

Director Juan Jesús García Galocha weaves a tale of a secret hidden city populated by Egyptian Mummies who have lived there for thousands of years. Through circumstance members of the community have to venture out into the real world. In this case, it’s London, England.   //   Thut (Joe Thomas) is an ex-chariot racer who has lost his nerve and is then mistakenly chosen to wed Princess Nefer (Eleanor Tomlinson). Before the nuptials can take place, an evil archaeolog...

Win tickets to Big Trip 2: Special Delivery – in cinemas January 19, 2023!

It has been a year since Mic Mic and Oscar returned from their incredible adventure.   //   But now they find themselves in a race against time to thwart a diabolical plan by the sinister Vulture to sabotage the delivery of a Grizzly bear cub to Vulture’s opponent in the American presidential elections. With no time to waste, our intrepid heroes, Mic Mac and Oscar -joined by Panda and Stork – embark upon an exciting journey as they ride a Zeppelin in their quest ...

Vinyl Nation Movie Review

There is now a subset of the congregation, people that still love, collect and play vinyl. It makes no sense to the outsider to pay the crazy hipster-driven prices that new records cost, not to mention the disadvantages of the format. From an audiophile perspective, it makes even less sense. But there is magic at play here, one not defined by measurements of maybe even sound logic.   //   The documentary Vinyl Nation does a great job of introducing outsiders to this ...

Watch the new trailer for Oppenheimer – in Aussie cinemas July 20, 2023!

The film stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Emily Blunt as his wife, biologist and botanist Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer. Oscar® winner Matt Damon portrays General Leslie Groves Jr., director of the Manhattan Project, and Robert Downey, Jr. plays Lewis Strauss, a founding commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Academy Award® nominee Florence Pugh plays psychiatrist Jean Tatlock, Benny Safdie plays theoretical physicist Edward Teller, Michael Angarano plays ...

Alan Cumming is coming to QPAC this January!

Alan’s diverse career has seen him perform in concert halls across the globe, including the Sydney Opera House, the London Palladium, the Hollywood Bowl and Carnegie Hall. On the screen and on stage he’s played God, the Devil, Hitler, the Pope, a teleporting superhero, Hamlet, all the parts in Macbeth, Dionysus, a Smurf (twice), the MC in Cabaret (thrice), a James Bond baddie – and political spinmeister Eli Gold on seven seasons of TV’s The Good Wife, for which he received multiple ...

Blueback Movie Review

Abby’s mother Dora (Radha Mitchell in the early years) is a firebrand who fights the good fight and tries to keep tourism out of her beautiful seaside community. The teenage Abby (Ilsa Fogg) follows in her mother’s footsteps and becomes a staunch activist for protecting the ecosystem of Australia’s reefs.   //   During her teen years, she befriends a large blue grouper, which she names Blueback. This giant fish spurs her on and buttresses her desire to protect the ...

A Man Called Otto Movie Review

Otto lives a solitary life, one where he adheres to a rigid set of rules and has no patience for those that don’t follow said rules. When a new family moves into his tightly controlled world, they succeed in turning things upside down and inside out.   //   The emptiness at his core is explained through a series of heartbreaking flashbacks. As you learn of all the loss Otto has suffered you begin to excuse his overtly negative nature and then have a stake in his ...

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile Movie Review

Under the magician’s tutelage and showing that dance is also part of the retiles’s skill set, Lyle and Hector are ready to conquer the New York stages. Their first show sells out and everything is set for success until the curtain goes up and the stage fright sets in. Lyle (Shawn Mendes) is completely unable to let rip. From this point on the story shifts to the arrival in the Big Apple of the Primm family. Pops is played by Scoot McNairy. Mother (Constance Wu) and their high-strung ...