Jay Gonzalez joined Drive-By Truckers in 2008, filling in for Spooner Oldham on keyboards, and eventually sharing lead guitar duties with Mike Cooley to compensate for the absence of third guitarist Jason Isbell. Left to his own devices on this second full-length solo album, Gonzalez displays his interest in 70’s pop rock influences, whether it’s…
– Six Minutes to Midnight – Only in cinemas from 22 April 2021 We have 10 double in-season passes thanks to Transmission Films. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE Summer 1939, Hitler’s power is growing and tensions between the UK and Germany are at boiling point. The Augusta Victoria College, a finishing…
– Two by Two Overboard! – Only in cinemas from 1 April 2021 We have 10 family in-season passes thanks to Rialto Distribution. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE Noah’s ark drifts on the open seas, with best friends Finny and Leah on board. But, after weeks with no land in sight,…
Laura Purcell’s debut, The Silent Companions was a creepy gothic thriller. That book featured everything a reader might want from this style of tale – asylums, strange villagers, a dark manor house, whispers of witchcraft and of course the titular Companions – wooden effigies that seemed to move on their own. She followed that up…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 19 March 2021. Mozart’s Violin Concertos need little introduction from No. 3 in G major featuring the 19-year-old Mozart at his elegant, witty and beguilingly changeable best, to the Sinfonia Concertante the string concerto masterpiece with its masterly mixture…
Unsound is an Australian feature film directed by Ian Watson (Doctor Doctor, Janet King). When gigging guitarist, Noah (Reece Noi, Game of Thrones), quits the band of a 90s pop icon Moniqua (Christina Anu), he returns to his mother’s home in Sydney, Australia. Noah soon finds himself swept up in the life of a young,…
– Distraction by The Umbilical Brothers – Only at the Arts Centre Melbourne We have 2 double passes thanks to A-List Entertainment for the performance of Distraction by The Umbilical Brothers at 7 pm on Wednesday, 31 March 2021. *Please make sure before you enter that you will be 1) in Melbourne, and 2) available to…
– Mortal Kombat – Only in cinemas from 15 April 2021 We have 5 double in-season passes thanks to Universal Pictures Australia. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE When Earth’s greatest champions are called upon to battle the enemies of Outworld, they must discover their true powers to save our planet from…
Director Azazel Jacobs (The Lovers) marks his territory in French Exit. That territory is squarely in the realm of Wes Anderson and his ilk, albeit with some of the quirkier edges buffed off. Coincidentally – and perhaps confusingly – Anderson’s new film is called The French Dispatch. Jacobs weaves a compelling story of love and…
Rubika Shah’s documentary feature White Riot re-tells the inspired story of Rock Against Racism. RAR was a grassroots movement that stymied the rise of racism in 1970s Britain by galvanising youth through politically charged music. The film contextualises a growing white supremacist sentiment born from the Nazi Party, but manifesting in numerous cultural and political…
