The Chosen is a groundbreaking historical drama based on the life of Jesus, seen through the eyes of those who knew him. Photo: Prime Video/5&2 Studios. The official teaser for Season Six of the global hit TV series The Chosen has been released, offering a first glimpse of the season ahead that premieres on 15 November on Prime Video. Three episodes will be released at launch with ne...

St Mary's Cathedral is opening its Grand Organ to the public this season with a four-part concert series, held on Sunday afternoons from August to November. It brings together a recitalist from the Sydney cathedral, two of the Cathedral's own musicians, one of the country's leading saxophonists, and the youngest players from its Junior Organ School. A visitor from Sydney opens the series...

By John Mulderig Place one of Western civilisation's foundational texts in the hands of one of the entertainment industry's greatest living auteurs and the results are likely to be impressive. And so it proves with The Odyssey (Universal), writer-director Christopher Nolan's lavish and absorbing adaptation of Homer's epic poem. While taking some liberties with his source material, Nolan ...

By Jacinta Jakovcevic Over the past 50 years, the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) Choir Camp has inspired, educated, entertained, and enabled generations of young musicians to engage with the Church through its music. Fostering fellowship, friendship and a lifelong love of Church music worship, Choir Camp brings together young choristers from all denominations, providing them with th...

By John Mulderig Set primarily in the Hollywood of the 1920s, the delightful, animated comedy Minions & Monsters (Universal) is at once director and co-writer Pierre Coffin's paean to and satire of early Tinseltown. Humorous versions of classic movie scenes abound, all recreated in the key of silly. But even those with little knowledge of cinema history can enjoy this romp through th...

By John Mulderig Why be satisfied with an animated success when a live-action re-working of the same tale might also be a hit at the box office? Catherine Laga'aia stars as Moana in a scene from the movie ‘Moana.’ Photo: OSV News/Disney. That's a question that seems to be on the minds of the folks at the Mouse House these days, and so, after several other examples in recent years, we ...

Founded in Western Australia in 1922 during a period of widespread sectarian discrimination, the Knights originally emerged to support Catholics facing exclusion from employment and public life. Photo: Iceberg Media/Knights of the Southern Cross. Centenary books can sometimes feel dutiful. However, the recent Knights of the Southern Cross in Western Australia 1922-2022 is a serious work of...

St Mary's Cathedral is the star of a four-concert series running from August to November. Image: Supplied. There is something about the sound of a pipe organ filling a great cathedral that no recording quite captures. Often called the king of instruments, the organ can whisper like a flute one moment and shake the floor the next, and few buildings in Perth show it off as well as St Mary'...

The Duttons were always going to run out of quiet. Dutton Ranch, the fifth series to grow out of Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone, wastes no time proving it: a wildfire tears through Beth and Rip's hard-won Montana spread before the opening credits, and within two episodes they have gambled everything on a cattle ranch in South Texas. The series began on Paramount+ on 15 May and streamed it...

By John Mulderig The truth is out there, and director Steven Spielberg ultimately intends to tell you all about it with his grandiose, vaguely paranoid fantasy Disclosure Day (Universal). Josh O'Connor plays Dr. Daniel Kellner in a scene in "Disclosure Day," directed by Steven Spielberg. Photo: OSV News/Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment. As written by David Koepp, the film e...