Pop Culture Check: Entertainment News You Need to Know Right Now

The world of entertainment and pop culture is ever-evolving, delivering a steady stream of new movies, TV shows, and buzzworthy moments that keep us on the edge of our seats. From local gems to global blockbusters, there’s always something exciting to dive into.

From breakout streaming hits to award-winning cinema and headline-making celebrity news, the entertainment world keeps our feeds buzzing with excitement.

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We Finally Know Who’s at the Centre of Off Campus Season 2

One couple made a deal, and the next one is keeping score. From Garrett and Hannah to Dean and Allie, the love story continues, with Mika Abdalla stepping into the spotlight as our leading lady for the adaption of Elle Kennedy’s, The Score.

If that wasn’t enough, filming for season two is confirmed to kick off in June and run through to September — with an expected release date in mid-2027. India Fowler’s Grace Ivers story will presumably follow in season three, which means the Off Campusuniverse has a lot more to give.

We feel we can’t wait that long — but until then, we’ve got the books. For now, we’re just going to eat up all the press tour content.

Kylie Is Finally Opening The Glittering Archives

Netflix’s KYLIE is finally here, and it’s every bit as intimate as we hoped. Across three episodes, Kylie opens her personal archives for the first time, sharing everything from home movies to personal photographs… the lot. She’s remarkably open about the grief, scrutiny and resilience she’s experienced along the way, including her memories of Michael Hutchence and the brutal 90s tabloid era she navigated as a young woman. Her 2005 breast cancer diagnosis gets its own space too, handled with the same grit and grace she’s become known for. This is required viewing for anyone with a soft spot for sequins, reinvention and the woman behind five decades of brilliance.

Streaming now on Netflix

This Brisbane-Shot Romance Is Your Next TV Obsession

Brisbane gets its rom-com close-up in Two Years Later, the new Paramount+ romantic dramedy starring Phoebe Tonkin and Brenton Thwaites. The eight-part series follows Emily and Ryan, two almost-lovers whose daily commute flirtation is cut short by COVID, only for them to reconnect two years later when Ryan proposes eight dates to see if marriage might be on the cards.

Filmed across Brisbane and southeast Queensland, the series lands with all eight episodes on 4th June, and the trailer has new-hyperfixation written all over it.

A24’s New Reunion Comedy Has a Chaotic Dream Cast

A24’s Peaked sounds like a 10-year reunion with a vendetta, a contour palette and several unresolved personality disorders. Molly Gordon directs and stars with Emma Mackey as former high-school terrors who have since flamed out, failed to make the invite list and decide to crash anyway. Add Dua Lipa, Connor Storrie, Simone Ashley, Laura Dern, Amy Sedaris and Alex Consani, and the class of 2016 has never looked more unwell, overdressed or worth RSVPing to.

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A24’s Anthony Bourdain Film Just Dropped Its First Trailer

For anyone who ever watched Anthony Bourdain pull up a plastic chair, order the thing everyone else missed, light a cigarette outside a restaurant and ask the one question that made a city suddenly open, this one is going to hurt. A24 has released the first trailer for Tony, its upcoming film about a young Bourdain, and it already looks dangerously close to splitting hearts clean in two.

Directed by BlackBerry filmmaker Matt Johnson, Tonystars The Holdovers breakout Dominic Sessa as Bourdain at 19, long before the books, the television, the restless appetite and the mythology. Rather than attempting to cover the whole life, the film narrows in on one volatile summer in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where a teenage Bourdain clocks into a restaurant kitchen and begins edging towards the chaos, curiosity and hunger that would later define him.

The cast has that very A24 pull, with Antonio Banderas playing the chef who mentors him, alongside Emilia Jones, Leo Woodall, Dagmara Domińczyk, Rich Sommer and Stavros Halkias. The trailer trades biopic gloss for sweat, nerves, ego, appetite and the charged stillness before service, which feels much closer to the Bourdain so many of us miss: sharp, restless, bruised, funny and romantic in spite of himself.

Bourdain was never just a chef or a travel host. He made curiosity feel like a code to live by. He understood that food was never only food, that a bowl of noodles could hold politics, grief, pleasure, memory, class and everything unsaid at the table. So yes, there is every chance Tony will have us ugly-weeping. But if the trailer is anything to go by, the film may have found the right way in: sideways, through the beginning, before the world knew his name.

Tony is due to arrive in US cinemas in summer 2026. An Australian release date has not yet been confirmed.

Coming to Netflix in June: Voicemails for Isabelle

Zoey Deutch is returning to Netflix rom-com territory, and this one has the exact tender-but-clicky hook we want from a winter watchlist. Voicemails for Isabellefollows Jill, who keeps leaving confessional messages for her late sister, unaware the number has been reassigned to Wes, an Austin real estate agent who starts falling for her from afar. Nick Robinson stars opposite Deutch, with Nick Offerman, Lukas Gage, Harry Shum Jr. and Ciara Bravo also in the cast.

Written and directed by Leah McKendrick, the film lands on Netflix on 19th June 2026.