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Alexia Shaw (writer)

Review: Community, Indigenous Rights and Adolescence in Stolen

Victoria Winata (writer)

Sex, Scarecrows and Stardom: Mia Goth Proves She Really Is “a Star” in Ti West’s Latest Film, Pearl

Emma Xerri (writer)

The film therefore serves as the remedy for Pearl’s unfulfilled aspirations, a manifestation of the powerful stage preseRead Article

All Style & No Substance: MFF'S Power Runway Missing that Spark

Alexia Shaw (writer)

International Women’s Day is a recognition of the power possessed by all women, not just those that wear sparkly dressesRead Article

Living (2022) is lovingly sentimental–if familiar

Chelsea Daniel (writer)

Living is lovingly sentimental–in its performances, as well as the themes and messaging that existed in Ikiru. It would Read Article

Last Summer On State Street: Resilience, Hope and Tragedy in Black Chicago

Katelyn Samarkovski (writer)

Night Ride (2020): Oscar Nominee for Best Short Sends a Good but Patronising Message

Chelsea Daniel (writer)

In places where strangers congregate, like on a tram, it’s easy to dismiss others as stand-ins, mere figures who happen Read Article

My Year of Dicks (2022): A Rare Moment of Sincerity

Chelsea Daniel (writer)

My Year of Dicks is unabashed in its use of cliche that it creates something wholly original, a film brimming with sinceRead Article

In Missing (2023), the Camera Sees Everything

Dimple Malhotra (writer)

Missing (2023), the standalone sequel to Searching (2018), takes the current society's roadblocks for thrillers (connectRead Article

Review: The Mousetrap, at Comedy Theatre

Victoria Winata

Indeed, it is easy to forget about worldwide disaster once you are in the grip of a classic murder mystery, no matter hoRead Article

Review: ‘Virginia’ at La Mama HQ

Sybilla George (writer), Tanya De Haan (image)

Showing at La Mama HQ from the 14th to the 26th of February is acclaimed Irish writer Edna O’Brien’s Virginia, a compellRead Article

Review: A World With No Shore by Hélène Gaudy

Sarah Pemberton (writer)

Review: Seven Kinds Of People You Find In Bookshops by Shaun Bythell

Christina Savopoulos (writer)

Laughably and Painfully AccurateRead Article

Review: Let’s Talk About Layla by Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Sarah Peters (writer)

Review: Mothering Sunday (2021)

Victoria Winata (writer)

‘Mothering Sunday’ (dir. Eva Husson) is a period drama in the most unconventional sense – both the viewer and the characRead Article

Review: Six the Musical; Production, Creative Direction & Legacy

Larissa Brand (writer), Akash Anil Nair (photography)

Six, possibly one of the most important musicals of our generation, has finally arrived in Melbourne, after originally bRead Article

Review: Operation Mincemeat (2020)

Daniel Snowden (writer)

Along with the atrocities of the Second World War came a total distrust of how we as humanity can communicate with each Read Article

Review: Dice Paper Role 'Myths & Legends', MICF 2022

Sherry Tay (writer)

You don’t have to be a “nerd” to enjoy good ol’ role-playRead Article

An ‘exorcism of perfection’, Beige Bitch forces us to confront the mediocrity within us all

Sidonie Bird de la Coeur (writer)

Emily Carr presents a one-woman tour-de-force, a beautifully blunt exorcism of unrealistic expectations as captivatinglyRead Article

Review: Empathy Training, MICF 2022

Alex Thomas (writer)

Should our mistakes define us? The dogmatic dominion of ‘cancel culture’, perpetuated by its re-tweeting apostles, has sRead Article

Review: Happening 'L’événement' (2021)

Victoria Winata (writer)

Audrey Diwan’s Happening is a simple film. Set in 1960s Paris, the story focuses on heroine Anne Duchesne (Anamaria VartRead Article