Peter Jackson has restored, colourised and added voices to footage of the western front, bringing the soldiers unforgettably back to life. By Peter Bradshaw To mark the centenary of the first world war’s end, Peter Jackson has created a visually staggering thought experiment; an immersive deep-dive into what it was […]
Melbourne outfit’s outstanding fourth album pairs tenderness with political fury. By Andrew Stafford Pack animals … Melbourne rocker Cash Savage (bottom centre) with her band the Last Drinks. Their new album, Good Citizens, was written against the backdrop of Australia’s same-sex marriage postal survey. Everyone’s got a “fucked-up way” of […]
150 business owners, art lovers, educators and community members, gathered to fire a new groundswell of support for cultural change last Friday 7 September at the Friends of Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery’s event, Mona Comes To Coffs. Leigh Carmichael, the original Creative Director of the Museum of Old and New […]
This real-life story of a KKK infiltration marks the director’s best work in years Walking out of BlacKkKlansman, one can’t help but feel electrified. A late-summer entry amidst the seat-shakers of the last three months, here is something deeply substantial and remarkably satisfying. by Blake Goble A Director Spike Lee […]
Elegant songs that explore the pain, folly, and intoxication of building and losing connections by Kayleigh Hughes A The Lowdown: None of us has just one love story inside. No one has just one heartbreak. These moments that pinprick our hearts and shift the earth under our feet — we collect […]
by John Turnbull It’s movie time, as entertainment editor John Turnbull checks out the latest big screen blockbuster from Tom Cruise and a little-seen sci-fi pic with a big twist… Mission Impossible: Fallout Directed by Christopher McQuarrie (2018) Even if you’ve been living under a rock, there is a fair chance […]
Friends of Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery are bringing Leigh Carmichael, the creative mind behind “the ‘Mona effect”, to Coffs Harbour for their gala dinner on September 7th. It’s a move sure to make them the envy of many galleries and regional areas, keen to know the secrets of Mona’s success. […]
05. Annihilation Release Date: February 23rd Who’s in It? Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, Gina Rodriguez, Tuva Novotny, and Oscar Isaac You Gotta See This: In its finest moments (and there were a lot of fine moments), Alex Garland’s Ex Machina managed a nifty trick: It looked like […]
We’re already halfway through 2018, which would feel like a lot more of a sigh of relief if it didn’t instead fill us with dread about what’s still yet to come. As both the US and the world at large begin to shift in seismic ways, old culture clashes still […]
Brad Bird returns to animation with a freewheeling sprint through Pixar’s art-deco world by Clint Worthington With the notable (and infamous) exception of the Cars series, Pixar has an almost unreasonably strong track record with sequels. The Toy Story series wrote the book on how to craft meaningful new stories […]