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Nov 3, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Rachael Mead |Penelope Debelle |Vicki Englund
The action begins in Los Angeles, where actor Lou Wells (Rebecca Breeds) is fast approaching rock-bottom. After a promising start in Hollywood with a role on a soap, she’s now broke and living on her ex-boyfriend’s couch, and her agent has dropped her. At the climax of a day that couldn’t get much worse, Lou talks her way out of a traffic fine using the plane ticket she received from her estranged father.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Penelope Debelle |Rachael Mead |Vicki Englund
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Vicki Englund |Penelope Debelle |Anthony Mullins
“The river is the biggest player in who I am,” says Māori elder Ned Tapa. “Our trip is about us as people coming together; it’s about saving rivers, saving the planet.”It’s hard to imagine anyone who watches this film disagreeing that the Whanganui River is worthy of saving. Flowing across 290km through the heart of Aotearoa’s North Island and surrounded by lush rainforest, it is breathtakingly beautiful, it’s fast-flowing current and inky depths exuding an almost other-worldly lure.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Jane Ring Frank |Vicki Englund
It was on one of many trips to Japan that Kirsten Siddle decided to transport the Japanese tradition of magic bars back home. Siddle, a former producer at QPAC is creative director of Broad Encounters, an outfit that creates and tours multi-sensory, immersive live productions. Her company’s A Midnight Visit (a journey into the world of Edgar Allen Poe) was a huge hit in Brisbane and ran here for six months in 2021 and 2022.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Vicki Englund |Penelope Debelle |Anthony Mullins
Brisbane’s mild nights present the perfect setting to watch a movie outdoors at Dendy Outdoor Cinema at Brisbane Powerhouse. The cinema has been operating for a year now, but it’s still a well-kept secret to many. Head of marketing for Dendy Cinemas Eloi Mota says it’s not only the first permanent outdoor cinema for Dendy – it’s also the first permanent outdoor cinema of any kind for Brisbane.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Helen Barlow |Vicki Englund
Joe Brumm cuts a pretty low profile for someone who has had such a global impact. He is, after all, the creator of TV kids show Bluey and it would be nice to get to know him better. And we can, thanks to Calile Culture, the series of conversations with creatives hosted by The Calile Hotel in Fortitude Valley’s swish James Street precinct.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Helen Barlow |Penelope Debelle |Vicki Englund
When Iranian French actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi travelled to Melbourne to make Noora Niasari’s Australian film Shayda, she was in many ways re-living the early life of her film director mother in a Brisbane women’s shelter. Though Amir Ebrahimi hardly had time to travel around Australia, let alone to Brisbane. “I was too busy making this very intense film, but I hope to come back one day,” she says.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Penelope Debelle |Vicki Englund
Timothy David’s film about a fraught family reunion on Kangaroo Island showcases the South Australian island’s enviable coastal lifestyle – including a house with private beachfront whose location must remain secret. David, an acclaimed writer and director, returned after 20 years in New York to make Kangaroo Island with his Canadian wife and scriptwriter Sally Gifford. The couple bought their own holiday place on Kangaroo Island’s north coast in 2016 and know the area well.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Sukhmani Khorana |Penelope Debelle |Vicki Englund
Four Years Later comes in the middle of an eventful week for cultural diversity in the Australian media. On one hand, there was a scathing review that revealed systemic racism across the ABC. On the other, there was the release of Media Diversity Australia’s Race Reporting Toolkit, intended to give journalists tools to report without resorting to racial stereotyping.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Vicki Englund
As Deputy Lord Mayor of Brisbane David Hinchliffe got to know the city better than most. He was elected first as a councillor for Brisbane City Council in 1988 and served as deputy lord mayor for 23 years. But Hinchliffe had always been an artist first and foremost, so when he retired from politics he threw himself back into his first love. With gusto. He has now become one of Brisbane’s most loved artists and certainly one of our most prolific.
