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NewsTen of Our Most-Anticipated Games to Check Out at SXSW Sydney's Gaming Festival
With over 150 games to check out at SXSW Sydney, we're taking out the stress of choosing with 10 recommendations.
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NewsTen Must-Catch Gigs at the Inaugural SXSW Sydney's Massive Music Festival
SXSW Sydney has served up an absolutely huge music lineup, so we've broken down all the must-see sets for you.
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NewsZac Efron and Jeremy Allen White Jump Into the Ring in the Trailer for Wrestling Drama 'The Iron Claw'
The story of the Von Erich brothers gets the biopic treatment in this 80s-set film from 'Martha Marcy May Marlene' and 'The Nest' director Sean Durkin.
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NewsTV Dramedies Don't Get Much Better Than the Sublime and Soulful 'Reservation Dogs' From Start to Finish
This Taika Waititi-produced series just wrapped up its third and final season — and television is all the better for its 28-episode run.
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News'The Nightmare Before Christmas' and 'Hocus Pocus' Are Returning to Cinemas for Their 30th Anniversaries
This year's spooky movie season includes new big-screen dates with two 90s favourites.
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NewsPalace's New Moonee Ponds Picture Palace with a Rooftop Cinema Is Opening Just in Time for Boxing Day
You'll be able to spend the biggest moviegoing day of the year (and plenty more afterwards) at Palace's latest Melbourne cinema.
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NewsTwelve Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream This Month
Spend your couch time watching the delicious return of 'The Bear', Glen Powell playing a fake hitman and Lily Gladstone's latest excellent performance.
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GuideMust-Stream TV: All the Best Shows You Should Be Watching From 2024 So Far
Don't spend hours scrolling through streaming platforms — here's 2024's standout shows that you need to see.
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NewsEight New Movies You Can Watch Right Now That Have Been Fast-Tracked From Cinemas to Streaming
Get comfy on the couch with the Sydney-shot action antics of 'The Fall Guy', a heartbreaking Oscar-nominated animated gem and the love-triangle games of 'Challengers'.
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GuideTwelve of the Best RISING 2024 Events That Will Help You Get Out of the House This Winter
RISING 2024's most-exciting events include an absurdist dinner party, a massive festival within the festival and a heap of different one-off parties.
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NewsTwelve Movies to Put on Your Must-See List at the 2024 Sydney Film Festival
Whether you're keen on a dose of weirdness with your SFF sessions, to embrace a Sydney icon or to see award-winning flicks, there's something for you among these titles.
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NewsTwelve Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in May
Spend your couch time watching a documentary about Jim Henson, an Elisabeth Moss-led spy thriller and the new season of an Aussie rom-com sitcom.
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NewsThirteen New Movies You Can Watch in May That Have Been Fast-Tracked From Cinemas to Streaming
Get comfy on the couch with Kirsten Dunst as a war photographer in a divided America, Dev Patel directing himself in an action-packed revenge thriller and Kristen Stewart turning heartthrob.
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GuideSpectacular Autumn Events For Culture Vultures Seeking Their Next Fix
Make sure you add these must-do events to your Sydney culture calendar.
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NewsEurovision Alert: Here's When and Where 2024's Song Contest Is Unleashing Its Europop Marvels
Electric Fields are representing Australia with 'One Milkali (One Blood)', which features the language Yankunytjatjara from the Anangu peoples.
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NewsTwelve Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in April
Spend your couch time watching Andrew Scott step into Tom Ripley's shoes, a shattering docuseries about Nickelodeon's kids TV hits and Colin Farrell as a PI.
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News'Elvis: A Musical Revolution' Will Keep Getting Australia All Shook Up About the King of Rock 'n' Roll in 2024
This brand-new Aussie stage musical features more than 40 of the singer's hits — and it's returning to Sydney, then hitting up Adelaide, Perth and the Gold Coast.
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NewsPaul Mescal, Penelope Cruz, LGBTQIA+ Classics: They're All on Melbourne Queer Film Festival's 2023 Lineup
This year's celebration of queer cinema includes 50 feature films and 17 documentaries, plus the return of the Victorian Pride Centre Rooftop's outdoor cinema.
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NewsLiterally Huge: Sydney's IMAX Is Finally Reopening with One of the Biggest Cinema Screens in the World
Relaunching on Wednesday, October 11 with a hefty 692-square-metre screen, Darling Harbour's IMAX will reopen with 'Avatar: The Way of Water', 'Barbenheimer' and Taylor Swift.
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News'The Crown' Season Six Is Being Split Into Two Parts That'll Arrive From November — and There's a Trailer
Mark November and December in your diary for the hit regal drama's big farewell.
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News'Sunset Boulevard' Is the Next Big Tony-Winning Musical That's Returning to the Stage Down Under
It's been almost 20 years since this screen-to-stage production brought Norma Desmond and her Hollywood story to Australia — and this time, Sarah Brightman is ready for her closeup.
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News'Faraway Downs' Turns Baz Luhrmann's 'Australia' Into a Six-Part Miniseries — and It's Premiering at SXSW Sydney
Before it hits streaming in November, the new take on the Nicole Kidman- and Hugh Jackman-starring film will close out the SXSW Sydney Screen Festival with the 'Elvis' director in attendance.
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ShopCounterweight Vinyl & Espresso
32 Chambers Street, Footscray
Browse secondhand vinyl — the specialty is classic dance and bass — or sit down for a coffee and pastry.
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News'Force of Nature: The Dry 2' Will Get Eric Bana Solving Mysteries Again in Cinemas Down Under in February
Detective Aaron Falk's next big-screen date is now your most-anticipated Australian film of 2024.
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NewsHave You Ever, Ever Felt Like This?: The 'Round the Twist' Musical Will Premiere in Brisbane in 2024
The classic Australian series is hitting the stage with songs for the first time ever, debuting as part of Queensland Theatre's 2024 season.
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NewsCalling All Genre Fans: Monster Fest Is Unleashing 2023's Wave of Strange and Surreal Films Throughout October
Among the highlights: a horror-comedy set in one of the last video stores and a Norwegian flick about a gnome uprising.
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NewsHow to Craft the Perfect Harvest Rock Experience — From Budget to Blowout
If you're still deciding which ticket to this huge South Australian festival is for you, we've gathered the details right here.
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NewsTen Must-Catch Talks and Panels That You Don't Want to Miss at the Inaugural SXSW Sydney
What does the executive producer of 'Bluey' think of horror movies? What's the future of Chinatown? How do you communicate the magic of music? All these and more will be answered at SXSW Sydney.
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NewsMarvel's Huge New Exhibition Celebrates the Company's 85-Year History — and It's World-Premiering in NZ
If you want to check out 'Marvel: Earth's Mightiest Exhibition', you'll need to head to Wellington.
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EventWinter Gin Market
Friday, July 26 - Saturday, July 27, 2024
The Craft & Co., Collingwood
Taste and buy some of Australia's best gins at this two-day winter showcase at Smith Street's The Craft & Co.
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Event'The Lord of the Rings' Marathon — Extended Edition
Saturday, July 27 - Sunday, July 28, 2024
Select cinemas in Melbourne, Various locations
Stock up on lembas bread to make it through all three films, back to back and in their extended forms, on the big screen.
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EventThe Bikeriders
Thursday, July 4 - Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Various cinemas in Melbourne
Austin Butler, Jodie Comer and Tom Hardy rev up this intimate and absorbing biker saga, which draws from a 60s photojournalism book of the same name.
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EventBEAST Meat Masters
Monday, July 1 - Saturday, November 30, 2024
Beast City, Melbourne
Everything served at BEAST's Meat Masters takeover series is heavy, meaty and heartburn-inducing. Bring on the food coma.
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EventA Quiet Place: Day One
Thursday, June 27 - Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Various cinemas in Melbourne
The always-excellent Lupita Nyong'o and 'Pig' writer/director Michael Sarnoski take this hit horror franchise back to the alien invasion's beginning in a thoughtful Big Apple-set spinoff.
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EventThe Finders Keepers Autumn/Winter Market
Friday, July 12 - Sunday, July 14, 2024
Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton
Support the next wave of independent artisans at this three-day art and design market that features over 270 makers, foodies and designers.
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EventHorizon — Bangarra Dance Theatre
Wednesday, August 28 - Saturday, September 7, 2024
Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne
The iconic Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performing arts company's first mainstage cross-cultural collaboration tells tales from across Oceania.
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EventScandinavian Film Festival
Friday, July 19 - Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Select cinemas in Melbourne, Various locations
Whether you're after the latest 'Department Q' mystery or a documentary about the Norwegian wilderness, this film festival has something for you.
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EventDisaronno at Palace Cinemas in Melbourne
Monday, May 27 - Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Various Melbourne venues, Melbourne
Where to taste an authentic amaretto sour across Melbourne.
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EventBastille Day
Saturday, July 13 - Sunday, July 14, 2024
Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne
Queen Victoria Market will be filled with buttery pastries, cooking masterclasses, live music and more to celebrate France's national day.
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News'Loki' Remains One of Marvel's Standout Streaming Shows in Its Lively and Entertaining Second Season
This returning Tom Hiddleston-starring stint of time-hopping trickery also benefits from adding 'Everywhere All At Once' Oscar-winner Ke Huy Quan to its cast.
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NewsNicole Kidman, Jason Clarke and Filmmaker Phillip Noyce Just Joined SXSW Sydney's Speaker Lineup
Kidman will chat about her production company, which has been behind 'Big Little Lies' and 'The Undoing', while Clarke and Noyce will share Hollywood tales.
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NewsIf You Really Love Christmas, You'll Want to See 'Love Actually' in Concert Down Under This Festive Season
To ‘Love Actually’ fans, this full orchestra-backed screening is perfect — and it's back for another year.
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NewsOlivia Colman, Ian McKellen, Alfred Hitchcock: They're All on the 2023 British Film Festival Lineup
Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Helen Mirren and Anthony Hopkins all also have movies in the touring cinema celebration's program.
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News'The Wizard of Oz'-Inspired Blockbuster Musical 'Wicked' Will Defy Gravity in Melbourne in 2024
Following the Land of Oz's witches, the Broadway smash is headed to the Regent Theatre in from March.
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NewsZach Bryan's First-Ever Australian Gig Has Been Moved to a Bigger Venue Before Tickets Even Go on Sale
The country music superstar will now take his Melbourne-exclusive concert to Flemington Racecourse.
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NewsIbiza-Born Dance Music Festival Don't Let Daddy Know Is Coming to Australia for the First Time in 2024
More than a decade after starting in Spain, this dance music fest is heading Down Under with AFROJACK, Timmy Trumpet, MORTEN and Sub Zero Project.
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NewsCrime Capers Don't Get Much More Charming Than Netflix's Suave Omar Sy-Starring Standout 'Lupin'
Slick, stylish, twisty and thrillingly entertaining, this heist series about everyone's favourite French gentleman thief is back for a third easy binge.
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NewsRhys Darby and Taika Waititi's Pirate Rom-Com 'Our Flag Means Death' Keeps Sailing Sweetly in Season Two
After proving one of the standout new shows of 2022, the queer seafaring sitcom is back for a second voyage — and it's just as charming.
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NewsCailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi Step Into the Presleys' Shoes in Sofia Coppola's Full 'Priscilla' Trailer
After Baz Luhrmann focused on Elvis in his 2022 Oscar-nominee, Sofia Coppola is approaching the story from a different angle.
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News'Only Murders in the Building' Has Been Renewed for a Fourth Season of Amusing Murder-Mysteries
More episodes, more murders and more comedy are all on the way for Selena Gomez, Steve Martin and Martin Short's hit show.
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NewsBeyoncé's New 'Renaissance' Tour Concert Film Is Playing Cinemas Worldwide From December
Covering the singer's 56-performance, 39-city world tour, 'RENAISSANCE: A FILM BY BEYONCÉ' just dropped its first trailer, too.
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News
Country Music Superstar Zach Bryan Is Heading to Melbourne for His First-Ever Australian Concert
Country music fans, the biggest name in the genre right now is playing St Kilda's Catani Gardens.
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NewsTim Minchin's Stage Musical Version of 'Groundhog Day' Is Finally Coming to Australia in 2024
Déjà vu comes with the territory with this stage version of the Bill Murray-starring classic comedy, which will play an exclusive Aussie season in Melbourne.
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News'The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar' Is Pure Wes Anderson Gold (and It Has Three More Shorts for Company)
If you watch all four of Netflix's Wes Anderson-directed, Roald Dahl-inspired shorts at once, you've got yourself a new feature-length anthology.
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NewsA Home Renovation Show, But Eerie: That's the Vibe in Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder's 'The Curse'
Fielder's first project since 'The Rehearsal', this new A24 series is co-written by Benny Safdie and satirises all things home improvement on TV.
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NewsTwelve Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in September
Spend your couch time watching four new Wes Anderson shorts, the end of 'Sex Education', Daniel Radcliffe's best role and the latest music-filled charmer from the director of 'Once'.
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NewsGlorious 'The Boys' Spinoff 'Gen V' Is Filled with College-Set Coming-of-Age Caped-Crusader Chaos
Its superheroes might be younger, but nothing has been toned down in this characteristically gory and raucous entry in the Vought Cinematic Universe.
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News'True Detective' Is Returning for Season Four in January — and Heading to Alaska to Solve an Icy Mystery
Five years after it last hit HBO, the detective series is back with Jodie Foster and Kali Reis as its new cop duo.
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NewsIf Nicolas Cage Haunts Your Sleep, the Trailer for A24's New Comedy 'Dream Scenario' Understands
Ari Aster produces this case of art imitating life — because who doesn't constantly dream about Nicolas Cage?
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NewsAutumn Plans, Sorted: Golden Plains Has Opened the Ticket Ballot for 2024's Festival
If you're keen to spend three days in March dancing in the Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre, get clicking now.
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NewsWhite Bay Power Station Will Open to the Public for the First Time in Over 100 Years as Part of the Biennale of Sydney
The historic power station has been transformed into an artistic, cultural and community hub which will reopen as part of the Biennale in March next year.
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NewsJeremy Allen White Gets Caught in a Love Triangle in the Trailer for Sci-Fi Romance 'Fingernails'
'The Bear' favourite stars opposite Jessie Buckley from 'Women Talking' and 'Sound of Metal' lead Riz Ahmed.
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NewsTaylor Swift's 'Eras' Tour Concert Film Will Hit Cinemas Down Under in October If You're Ready for It
Can't wait till Swift hits Australia's stages in 2024? Missed out on tickets? You can catch the movie version this spring.
