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Review: The Woman King (2022)

Viola Davis roars on screen in this historical epic film inspired by the kingdom of Dahomey, Africa in the 18th century.

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Where to Shop Like a Local In and Around Rose Bay

For Concrete Playground: Get all of the essentials — bread, bedding and burgers — plus a few treats in this harbourside suburb.

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OzHarvest Has Opened a Second Pay-What-You-Can Supermarket for Sydneysiders Doing it Tough

For Concrete Playground: Located in Waterloo, the new market has a “take what you need, give if you can” philosophy.

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Sydney Institution Frango Has Opened Australia’s First Charcoal Chicken Drive-Thru

For Concrete Playground: Drive, don’t walk or run, to get your charcoal chook and chilli sauce fix in Edmondson Park.

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Carriageworks Has Officially Been Saved — and Plans to Restart Events As Early As August

For Concrete Playground: You could be shopping at the multi-arts centre’s popular Saturday farmers market as early as next month.

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Four Mardi Gras Events to Hit at This Surry Hills Pub to Make the Festivities Last All Month

For Concrete Playground: From watching ‘The Birdcage’ under the stars to joining outrageous bingo nights.

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Eden Caceda’s Top 10 Films of the 2000s

Wow, a decade has passed.

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The best moments from the 2016 Oscars

For Junkee: It was the nights of nights yesterday, with all the top film stars and Hollywood celebrities descending on Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre for the 88th Annual Academy Awards.

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Grammys 2016: Our favourite moments

For Junkee: Unless you were sleeping under a rock yesterday, you would’ve known (or at least heard) about the 2016 Grammy Awards being presented at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

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Helpmann Awards 2015: Les Miserables, Paul Kelly and Kip Williams win top prizes

Long time musical theatre favourite Les Miserables took home Best Musical last night at the annual Helpmann Awards at Sydney’s Capitol Theatre.

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Carrie Bickmore among big winners at TV Week Logies

Channel Ten’s Carrie Bickmore won hearts and brought some tears to viewers of last nights TV Week Logie Awards as she walked away with the coveted Gold Logie.

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2015 ASTRA Award winners announced

Held at The Star in Sydney’s Pyrmont, the ASTRAs presented 19 awards to a number of television channels and hosts during the evening, also marking 20 years of subscription television in Australia. The event was hosted by American personality Giuliana Rancic from the E! Network.

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Sweet Charity tops 2014 Helpmann Awards

Musical Sweet Charity has beaten out Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom at the 2014 Helpmann Awards for live entertainment.

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Cate Blanchett returns to TV as lesbian

For CelebrityOz: The Academy Award-nominated actress Cate Blanchett has transformed herself into a lesbian in a huge return to Australian television for an upcoming episode of the hit ABC drama series Rake.

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Bruno Mars & Red Hot Chili Peppers rock the Super Bowl Halftime Show

For CelebrityOz: This year Grammy winner Bruno Mars was the chosen one to follow up last year’s unforgettable Beyonce performance during the halftime show, collaborating with veteran rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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Lady Gaga visits Britney’s ‘Piece of Me’ Show

For CelebrityOz: It’s not the first time a celebrity has attended Britney Spear’s current ‘Piece of Me’ Las Vegas show but worldwide superstar Lady Gaga joined the club when she watched the new show on Friday night.

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Australia’s Stars Attend the Ozcars: The 3rd AACTA Awards

For CelebrityOz: It was Australia’s night of nights as actors, directors, models, singers and A-list celebrities hit the red carpet for the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Awards.

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All eyes on the AACTA Awards

For CelebrityOz: Sydney’s The Star is preparing to host the annual 3rd AACTA Awards this Thursday, celebrating the best of Australian film and television in 2013.

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Jolie’s New ‘Maleficent’ Trailer Debuts

For CelebrityOz: Based on the “untold story” of the Disney villainess, the upcoming Maleficent is both a prequel and re-imagining of Disney’s 1959 Sleeping Beauty and told from the perspective of the antagonist Maleficent, whom Angelina Jolie is set to portray.

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Beyonce & Jay Z perform at the Grammy Awards

For CelebrityOz: Beyonce and Jay Z have done it again.

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Daft Punk and Lorde dominate 2014 Grammy Awards

For CelebrityOz: The 56th American Grammy Awards, awarding music from 2013, celebrated emerging artists, highlighted social issues and was the musical party of the year on Sunday evening, held in Los Angeles’ Staples Center.

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Sydney City Lawn Library

For Aphra Magazine: Sydney Festival returns to grace the CBD area for its 37th year this January.

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JoJo Comeback Expected

For CelebrityOz: After years of legal troubles regarding record labels, noughties singer Joanna Levesque, also known as JoJo, has finally left her old label Blackground Music and moved to Atlantic Records, igniting beliefs that 2014 will be the year of her comeback.

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American Hustle and Gravity lead Academy Award nominations

For CelebrityOz: Comedy American Hustle and 3D space odyssey Gravity have lead the nominations for the 86th Academy Awards.

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Rihanna & Shakira collaborate on hit new song

For CelebrityOz: Barbados-native Rihanna and Colombian Shakira have been working on the collaboration for a month, with the single cover art going live on January 9.

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Gravity wins big prize at AACTA Awards

For CelebrityOz: 3D science fiction thriller Gravity, starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney took home Best International Film and Best International Director for Alfonso Cuaron at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards.

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Aussie Thriller Wraps

For Filmink: A low-budget local thriller – taking its cues from classic eighties flicks – has just wrapped shooting in New South Wales.

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People’s Choice Awards 2014: Complete Winners List!

For CelebrityOz: Honouring the best in pop culture in 2013, Beth Behrs and Kat Dennings from 2 Broke Girls hosted the event where over 700 million people voted for their favourites.

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Aussie Selected For Berlin

For Filmink: Two Australian features have been selected to screen at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival.

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Flickerfest Unveils It’s 2014 Line-Up

For Filmink: Australia’s premiere short film festival reveals its 2014 program, which comes packed with local talent.

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In Development

For Filmink: A host of new feature film projects have just received a slab of development support funding.

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‘The Inbetweeners Movie 2’ Shooting In Australia

For Filmink: Fans of the UK lads will be excited to hear the adolescent quartet are currently in the country shooting the highly anticipated sequel.

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Two Aussie Features Selected for Sundance

For Filmink: Two female filmmakers, both making their directorial feature debut, have had their works selected for Sundance Film Festival.