– The Magnificent Seven – Only in cinemas from 29 September 2016 We have 10 double in-season passes thanks to Sony Pictures Releasing. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE Director Antoine Fuqua brings his modern vision to a classic story in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures’ and Columbia Pictures’ The Magnificent Seven. With the sleepy…
– Lavazza Film Festival – Only in cinemas from 13 September 2016 We have 10 double in-season passes thanks to Palace Cinemas. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE The Lavazza Italian Film Festival driven by Fiatwill once again showcase the very best new Italian cinema when it screens exclusively at Palace Cinemas. The…
I am really sorry to have to say that I have just seen another Australian movie which is absolutely ghastly, in the form of Red Billabong. Nick Marshall (Dan Ewing from Home and Away) and his estranged brother Tristan (Tim Pocock) are drawn into a world of secrets and lies when their grandfather’s enormous outback…
Relationships can be tricky to navigate at the best of times, but when you must traverse the cultural divide and respective parents are at cross-purposes the task becomes a whole lot more difficult. That is the premise behind Alex & Eve, the feelgood, comedic romance developed, written by and starring Alex Lykos, who began the…
Bold (to a point) and imaginative, writer and director Thomas Ian Doyle’s latest work Between the Sheets straddles the line between film and theatre. The contention is you don’t really need to “act” to appear on film, but theatre takes a lot more time and effort. Tristan Beckett (Jayden Popik) has signed a $32 million contract…
“If music be the food of love, play on”. These words by Shakespeare are perhaps some of his most iconic in a long list of perfect and beautiful phrases. They have lasted across time, and in this, the 400th year since Shakespeare’s death it is only fitting that these words be spoken again in honour…
David Burton the playwright, was a lapsed Catholic who returned to worship when he discovered Fr Peter Kennedy’s breakaway congregation in the Trades and Labour Council hall in South Brisbane, just down the road from St Mary’s Church, in the late 2000s. Fr Kennedy had been a bit of a revolutionary pastor, welcoming gay and…
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the cinema, along comes another shark thriller in the form of The Shallows. Ever since Steven Spielberg gave us the summer blockbuster with Jaws in 1975, great white sharks have been given something of a bad reputation by Hollywood filmmakers. The success of Jaws…
There was merriment aplenty at the Alex Theatre on the opening night of the Australian premiere of Around the World in 80 Days, the epic adventure adapted by Toby Hulse and based on the novel by Jules Verne. Directed by Terence O’Connell and starring Ian Stenlake, Pia Miranda and Grant Piro, the trio plays 39…
It Ends With Us is one of those read-in-a-sitting books for me. Here’s the blurb: Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up – she graduated from college, moved…
