Incoming TV..

Here are some trailers to wet your whistles....

Succession | Season 2

HBO has already renewed the 2018 summer drama for a third season, no doubt to air summer 2020. Succession is a look into the world of media moguls where a family is so vile and may swear more than the cast of Veep.

Logan Roy (Brian Cox) is a simply vile piece of work who some compare to young Rupert Murdoch. Kieran Culkin one of the sons (Roman) set to take over from his father one day is delicious whilst being so extremely horrific is everything you would expect from a super rich kid.

The kids including Aussie Sarah Snook as Shiv AKA Siobhan Roy is the youngest of the children, but so calculated and wicked, I love it!

If you are sad with a number of shows wrapping up on HBO like Game of Thrones, Silicon Valley, Veep and Ballers this comedy is a good alternative to Veep, mixing it up from politics to media. One of the same really if this is anything like Fox News and the recent Loudest Voice with Russell Crowe and Naomi Watts.

Succession in it's second divine season is streaming weekly now on Foxtel in Australia. It's full of bad language and lot's of back stabbing, brilliant TV. Forget The Block and the Bachie, this is where it's at.

Cinema Slut #2019 - Angel Has Fallen

Following Olympus Has Fallen (2013) and London Has Fallen (2016) comes Angel Has Fallen. Gerard Butler returns as United States Secret Service agent Mike Banning, whilst Morgan Freeman is the President of the USA now.

Joining the fold is Nick Nolte as Butler's rogue AF father whilst Piper Perabo replaces Radha Mitchell as Leah Banning, Mike’s wife.



I was unkind to the previous films, Olympus Has Fallen (2013) and London Has Fallen (2016), so I was surprised I actually enjoyed this film loads more.

It's a well told story of setting up a previous hero into villain status, however it's kind of fun. The drone strike on the lake at the set up of Butlers downfall is fairly epic.

If you watch the trailer and go hey this looks like more fun than Palm Beach, then maybe give this one a go, it's meant to be cold the next few days, so warm up these final days of winter and get off to the movies.

3 Stars.

(Mini) Sunday Spotlight: WAXX

Brisbane band WAXX have just released their debut album, Big Grief. Written with Bernard Fanning and Grammy Award-winning producer Nick DiDia, WAXX created a blistering punk rock album.

According to Triple J with this week's feature album spot, "the riffs are sick, the energy is explosive, but once again, the highlight is the group's not-so-secret weapon: singer Maz DeVita, who manages to sound raw and pleading one moment and invincible the next".

You can check out a full piece from the Triple J site on the group HERE.

Otherwise take a listen to the record below, check out a video or two below, maybe WAXX could be your next favourite new group from Brisbane.

Until next week...

Cinema Slut #2019 - Palm Beach (2019 film)

A tone deaf movie about rich baby boomers living in a beautiful home in Sydney, never a better time to release a film like this right?

Wrong this movie (despite it's all star Australian/NZ/UK cast) really misses the point.

When I went in I expected drama and secrets with some lies also coming out, instead it's a long winded look at how our baby boomers are blowing cash and day time drinking.



The movie using loads of music to at times awkwardly and abruptly end scenes. The movie swings from couple to couple to expose how age and time can play a tough in role in keeping relationships together.

Bryan Brown was also in a 1980 film called Palm Beach, so maybe this film should have stayed in 1980 too.

The cast is a who's who list of Australian TV, film and stage, but still even Bryan Brown , Richard E. Grant, Aaron Jeffery , Jacqueline McKenzie, Heather Mitchell and Sam Neill can not save this train wreck.

The relationships and getting older bit, interesting in part, but the wealth, small issues of a chimney blocking a view or farting during yoga were all a bit much.

Top End Wedding is easily shaping up to be the Australian film of 2019.

2 Stars for DNSW trying to get behind this as a tourism exercise to get people to Sydney.

(Not at the) Cinema Slut #2019 - Isn't It Romantic

I expected NOTHING when I selected Isn't It Romantic on a recent Qantas flight, however I was happy Netflix and Qantas did a deal to get this on their Inflight Entertainment.



Rebel Wilson stars across from Liam Hemsworth, Adam DeVine, Priyanka Chopra and Betty Gilpin. It's a great little cast and has some magical musical moments.

Rebel did Rebel whilst Liam, Adam and Priyanka really played along with the whole anti rom com vibe.

I did even on my flight laugh out loud, want to sing along and honestly I think my Netflix at home must be stuffed as this never got recommended to me. Side note The Last Summer (KJ Apa and dreamy The Chi cast member Jacob Latimore) was as a Netflix produced film, which was truly shocking.

Isn't It Romantic is a fun little watch, if you have a spare 90 minutes give it a go, give The Last Summer a miss though, it's nowhere as fun as this little rom com romp.

Home again, posts resume as per normal from now!

A preview of this week's (Mini) Sunday Profile, Triple J will feature the album this week, it's Brisbane's WAAX.

Movies to catch real soon and hopefully review -

Palm Beach (local release)
Angel has Fallen (big, DUMB third film in the Fallen series)

TV shows to break down -

Why Women Kill (Marc Cherry x Lucy Liu, YASS)

Handmaid's Tale Season Three finale, what an episode, no spoilers, YET!

Animal Kingdom, finale to come, USA Tuesday, Australian Wednesday Netflix, PM

Queen of the South, Claws, will they be renewed? My trusty USA summer series, will they come to an end?

Succession, Season 2, how many F bombs can they have in one episode, or even one scene?

More to cum, back to normal, it's the end of winter 2019, YASS!