The birth of Christ or the birth of Unknown Pleasures?
Felicity Errington reviews 24 Hour Party People … When I am alone, either on the bus to uni or just before bed, I think of a scene from 24 Hour Party People: Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan) walks through a shadowed alleyway and is heckled by a homeless Mancunian (Christopher Eccleston) who monologu
Linda Linda linda (Asian Cinema Collective & the Sydney Opera House) at Vivid LIVE
Charlotte Macdonald reflects … A bottle of sweet and innocent syrup––being with your friends is the sweetest romance. The bottled-up explosion of nostalgia generated through the care for your craft. Linda Linda Linda was presented by Stuart Buchanan of the Sydney Opera House an
Rave Culture: A New Era (Australian Premiere) at Vivid LIVE, 31/05/26
Cassidy Newman reviews … Accompanied by a fantastic soundtrack and featuring British rave legends such as RatPack, Fabio, Grooverider, SL2, and Leeroy Thornhill from The Prodigy, Eduardo Cubillo’s Rave Culture: A New Era invites us to travel back in time to when the DJs spun vinyl, the molly
23 seconds to eternity and millenium mambo at vivid live: Eliot Tompkins reviews
23 Seconds to Eternity (Australian Theatrical Premiere) (Bill Butt, 2023) Upon entering a cinema full of fifty-something year-olds, I was confronted by the understanding that I was entering part of something great that stretched before my time. 23 Seconds to Eternity presents us with several s
La Haine (Asian Dub Foundation Version) at the Sydney Opera House, 30/05/2026
Lucy Horton reviews … Big night for teen bro-ey sensibilities. Coulda been bigger –– their arbiters were there in spirit, but were probably the sparsest demographic in the Playhouse Theatre on Saturday: a fairly older crowd with a solid slice of twenty-somethings. A young man, Abdel, is
Longlegs: deep chills, shallow cinema
Satan was name-dropped a couple of too many times and, frankly, Satanism is just not that scary anymore.
The Epidemic of ‘Fake Films’
Graphic by David Balodis Serra DAVO ASKS “How did this get released in cinemas?” By now, everyone is well aware of how bad Madame Web is. I’m not here to argue that it’s not as bad as people are saying (it’s worse), or that there are any glimpses of effort from the cast and crew [&
Sydney IMAX to Reopen on Wednesday with a Massive Lineup
Seven years after it closed for ‘brief’ reconstruction, IMAX Sydney will officially open for business this Wednesday (October 11th). The Darling Harbour site is now operated by Event Cinemas, and devastatingly, can no longer boast of the largest cinema screen in the world. It is however
‘Barbie: The album’ deserved better
The soundtrack for the biggest film of the year is heavy on big names, but light on thrills There are probably very few people as satisfied with themselves right now than the Barbie marketing team. Between the universally praised teasers, social media campaigns that caught on like pink wildfire, and
RETROSPECTIVE: Batman and Robin and the Caped Crusader’s eternal identity crisis
For its 25th anniversary, Harry Gay reflects on the tug-of-war between grit and camp that led up to the Dark Knight’s most polarising cinematic outing. On 26 June 1997 – almost 25 years ago to the day – Joel Schumacher’s Batman & Robin premiered in Australia.. The film, which sta