SISU: Road to Revenge
The Man Who Refuses to Die Returns: Inside SISU: Road to Revenge By Mitchell Peters There’s a moment early in SISU: Road to Revenge when Aatami Korpi — the Finnish […]
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The Running Man
Running for His Life: Glen Powell on Edgar Wright’s Bold Reimagining of The Running Man By Mitchell Peters Glen Powell is grinning when he talks about getting punched in the
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
Springsteen’s Dark Night of the Soul — and the Movie That Finds the Light Inside It By Mitchell Peters Autumn, 1981. Bruce Springsteen is 31, coming off The River tour
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Harry Vanda
Still Playing with Fire: Harry Vanda Lights the Fuse Again By Sean Sennett You’re never too old or too young to release your debut single. Just ask Harry Vanda. At
British Film Festival 2025
Ralph Fiennes Leads The Choral as the 2025 Russell Hobbs British Film Festival Takes Flight By Mitchell Peters When the lights go down on November 5, the 2025 Russell Hobbs
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The Church
Steve Kilbey likes to swim. The Church frontman does a lot of thinking in the water. He’s been known to compile an album’s worth of lyrics over a few days
Wicked
After a hiatus of almost a decade, Wicked has returned to Brisbane. Since the musical last played in this town, the production has only grown in stature. The fourth longest
Kasey Chambers
It’s mid-afternoon in the Queen Street Mall and Kasey Chambers is backstage strumming her acoustic guitar. In half an hour she’ll play a short set to the assembled masses and
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
American actor Christopher Reeve is the subject of a new documentary from directors Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story. Ettedgui co-wrote the script with Otto Burnham,
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Madison Beer
Fortitude Valley Music Hall 28.08.2024 There’s almost no better feeling that turning up at a concert with zero expectations and then having your mind blown. Madison Beer is that good.
Griff
Princess Theatre (Brisbane) 13.08.2024 Fresh from supporting Taylor Swift on the London leg of her Era’s tour, Griff is back in Australia. The UK singer/songwriter started her Vertigo world tour
Conway sings King!
Deborah Conway is known to a generation or two as one of Australia’s finest solo artists and singer songwriters. Starting out, Conway earned her indie-cred fronting Do-Re-Mi in the 1980’s.
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Ross Wilson
Ross Wilson is on a roll. The singer/songwriter is staking a claim for being the hardest working man in Australian showbiz. His current ’50 Years of Hits’ tour will see
Billie Eilish
Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisbane, QLD Tuesday, February 18th 2025 The Australian leg of Billie Eilish’s ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour’ opened to a full house in Brisbane. On
Crowded House
Brisbane Entertainment Centre 14.11.24 Crowded House brought their Gravity Stairs tour to a close in Brisbane on Saturday night. Neil Finn acknowledged that show number ‘sixty-nine’ was an auspicious number.
The KILLERS
BEC. 09.12.24 You can tell a lot about a band by their merchandise. The Killers are no exception. Among the hoodies and posters, you’ll find a range of t-shirts that
Superman
Superman (2025): A Stylized Reboot That Flies High — and Sometimes Crashes Hard ★★★½ (3.5/5) James Gunn has always been a guy who swings for the fences — and with
Jesus Christ Superstar
QPAC Lyric Theatre 03.07.2025 Jesus Christ Superstar officially opened in Brisbane last night. And what a show it is. By the time the final curtain dropped, the full house were
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Familiar Touch
Your chance to win a double pass to FAMILIAR TOUCH is here – coming to cinemas October 23! A triple award-winner at the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons Competition, FAMILIAR TOUCH
Graham Nash
It’s mid-winter in Manhattan. Graham Nash is settling into a chat on Zoom and thinking about his setlist for his upcoming Australian tour. The man with an accent that slips
Englebert Humperdinck
Almost sixty years ago Englebert Humperdinck enjoyed the biggest hit of his career with a grand tearjerker of a ballad called ‘Release Me’. In 1967 it hit #1 in eleven
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James Reyne
James Reyne continues to cement his spot as Australia’s hardest working man in show business. In recent years Reyne has been permanently ‘on tour’. And why wouldn’t he be?
Asteroid City
Wes Anderson returns to form with his latest feature, Asteroid City. As the actor Fisher Stevens recently said, Anderson has assembled the biggest ensemble cast since Bridge on the River
Vika & Linda Bull
The Tivoli 14.04.23 Part way through the 2020 Bee Gees documentary, How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, Noel Gallagher lays bare one of the great truths of rock ‘n’
Don McLean
Don McLean Fortitide Music Hall 01.04.23 Tony Migliore strides on stage, sits at his piano, leans into a microphone and asks the audience, ‘What is this? A library?’. He wants
Sting/James Reyne
There’s a certain symmetry to this A Day on the Green line-up that features both Sting and James Reyne. Almost forty years ago the pair shared a stage fronting their
RHCP/Post Malone
The Red Hot Chili Peppers/Post Malone Suncorp Stadium 29.01.2023 Over 45.000 people crammed into Suncorp Stadium on a Sunday night to see a genuine double header, Post Malone and the
Elton John Live
Elton John Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour Suncorp Stadium 21.01.23 At 7.30pm the lights at Suncorp Stadium briefly dim and Sir Elton John hits a single chord on his piano.
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Gold Coast Convention Centre 10.11.2022 It’s a Saturday night on the Gold Coast, and the Convention Centre is hosting Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. Yes,
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The Banshees of Inisherin
Our friends at Dendy have given us five double passes to give away to The Banshees of Inisherin. The film sees actors Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson reunite with Oscar-nominated
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The Killers Live Review
The Killers. BEC. 29.11.2022 Kicking off the first night of their Imploding the Mirage tour in Australia, the Killers played to a capacity house at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre. Prior
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Flume
Flume. Riverstage. 16.11.22 Strolling onto the stage and getting behind the decks to deliver a mash-up of Holding On and Drop the Game, Flume lit up Brisbane’s Riverstage to the