German Film Festival The 12th annual Audi Festival of German Films will screen 9-13 May at Cinema Paradiso. For ‘More Than Honey’, director Marcus Imhoof flew around the world four times to collect amazing footage of honey bee colonies in California, Switzerland, China and Australia. He compares his grandfather’s bee keeping practices with modern day [...]
‘Wentworth’ is a re-imaging of one Australia’s favourite television dramas. From 1979 to 1986 Channel 10’s ‘Prisoner’ followed the lives of women detained inside the fictional Wentworth maximum security prison. Now 34 years after the original show debuted, the women of Wentworth are back in an all new re-telling of the tale. We follow Bea [...]
Warm Bodies (M) Directed by Jonathan Levine R (Nicholas Hoult) is not your typical Zombie. He is a bit of a collector and has made a home in a crashed aeroplane. He worries about his bad posture, pale skin, shuffling gait and the fact that he can’t connect with other Zombies at the abandoned airport [...]
One of Australia’s brilliant gay comedians, Josh Thomas, has kick-started a comedy drama series on ABC2. Thomas is starring as himself in the highly anticipated series Please Like Me, which is based on his amusing life experiences surrounding coming out and living life as a young Australian gay man. The first episode begins with an [...]
Over twenty years ago Scott Johnson’s naked body was found at the bottom of a cliff in Sydney. Johnson had been out celebrating completing his PhD at Manly. The young mathematicians death was ruled a suicide but his family is not convinced. Tonight’s episode of ‘Australian Story’ on ABC investigates the circumstances around Johnson’s death [...]
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (MA) Directed by Stephen Chbosky On his first day at his Pittsburgh high school, the extremely introverted Charlie (Logan Lerman) is saved from complete social embarrassment when two seniors let him sit at their lunch table. Openly gay Patrick (Ezra Miller) and extrovert-with-a-past Sam (Emma Watson) are step [...]
Spicks and Specks Returns One of the ABC’s most enduring and popular programs is set to return in 2013. Spicks and Specks will be relaunched with a new host and new team captains. We wonder if they’ll copy the similar British TV show Never Mind The Buzzcocks and have a different host each week. Ricky [...]
The witty, bitchy, eccentric winner of Big Brother Australia 2012 has exited the successful Channel 9 comeback show with a bang, and he’s here to do some explaining. As if being the first openly gay Big Brother winner Australia wasn’t enough, Benjamin Norris dropped to one knee at the live finale and popped the question [...]
Benjamin Norris has become the first openly gay contestant to win an Australian Big Brother, taking home the $250,000 prize money in a show that grabbed Australia’s attention last night. Norris used the limelight opportunity to propose to his long-term boyfriend live on stage. With host Sonia Kruger by his side, Norris announced ‘I took [...]
Hit and Miss is an intriguing new show created by Paul Abbot (Shameless) and produced by Nicola Shindler (Queer as Folk UK). Mia, played Chloe Sevigny (Big Love, Kids, Boys Don’t Cry) is a contract killer working for underworld boss Eddie (Peter Wright). Mia’s secret is that she is a trans* woman. Her life is [...]
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