The Queer Screen Film Fest comes to Canberra!
There have been gay and lesbian film festivals in Sydney since 1978. Since 1993, however, Sydney’s LGBTIQ film festival has largely coincided with the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and has been...
View ArticleSnowden: A Review
Making a true story more cinematic than documentary is a delicate and precarious process that ‘Snowden’ does not quite achieve. Although well cast, the film progresses like a truck up a hill, with the...
View ArticleBar Rochford vs. Molly’s
Yashi Compares Yashi is undertaking a double degree in International Relations/ Environmental Studies and hails from Western Sydney. Her column is like a Yelp review for things that aren’t restaurants...
View ArticleReview: Laneway 2017
The Laneway Festival in Sydney provides a brief island of bliss for students looking to forget about the impending resumption of the university year and instead focus on life’s real pleasures:...
View ArticleAll That Glitters: Versailles at the NGA
Photos from the National Gallery of Australia website The Chateau de Versailles was built by the ‘Sun King’ Louis XIV of France with one thing in mind: power. Beginning as his father’s hunting lodge...
View ArticleReview: Canberra Multicultural Festival 2017
The Canberra Multicultural Festival – after an electrifying performance from Indigenous group the Wiradjuri Echoes on their main stage – proudly proclaimed that this was its twenty-first birthday...
View ArticleReview: Moonlight
2016 was an important year for African-American representation and voices in popular culture. Works such as Beyonce’s album Lemonade and Ava Duverney’s documentary 13th were stand-outs in particular,...
View ArticleReview: La La Land
Join our armchair reviewers Anna and Jeevan as they take a trip to the cinema together to see 2016’s singing and dancing hit, La La Land. Name a Rom-Com-Musical with a Compelling Story Jeevan...
View Article20for20: Parlour
Woroni continues the everlasting search for affordable lunch options off campus. For each edition, two reviewers will visit a new restaurant that is a 20-minute or less of a walk from uni, to review a...
View ArticleProcess by Sampha – Young Turks Records, 2017
Sampha, Process, Album Cover The rising tide of alternative R&B has brought up with it many boats. Recent years have seen the likes of the Weeknd and Frank Ocean ride the wave of this moody...
View ArticleThe Morrisons at Smiths Alternative
In light of their performance at The Smiths Alternative, The Morrisons should no longer be defined as simply a band, but rather some sort of hurricane-like natural phenomenon. As they re-grouped...
View ArticleReview: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
‘I suppose there is a certain crucial interval in everyone’s life when character is fixed forever … for me, it was that first fall term I spent at Hampden.’ With a fresh academic year stretching out...
View ArticleReview: The Byzantines and The Montreals
The Byzantines Transit Bar: Friday 3 March 2017 Transit Bar became the unofficial South Australian embassy on Thursday night, as Adelaide collectives The Montreals and The Byzantines bounded into...
View ArticleReview: Tilley’s Devine Café Gallery, Lyneham
Photo: Tilley’s website Whatever their opinion, everyone in Canberra seems to know Tilley’s Devine Café Gallery. On the leafy corner of Brigalow and Wattle Street in Lyneham, Tilley’s is a Canberra...
View ArticleReview: Onetoeight Exhibition
Image: School of Art website Canberra-based artist Alison Alder uses a fresh, light-hearted lens to depict Australia’s early political journey in her Onetoeight exhibition. On display at the Museum of...
View ArticleReview: Logan
‘At least we can all agree that the third movie is always the worst.’ – Jean Grey, X–Men: Apocalypse (2016) Logan, inspired by the comic book Old Man Logan, subverts Jean’s statement – Hugh Jackman...
View ArticleReview: Songs for the Band Unformed by John Passant
I would not describe myself as a poetry person. I imagine I’m joined by many people in my trepidation towards a form that can appear to waver between highly technical and utterly inscrutable. But I...
View Article‘Our art centre is our last line of defence’: Resisting the Australian War...
Gallery Entrance to For Country, for Nation at the AWM The recent exhibition For Country, for Nation in the Special Exhibitions Gallery of the Australian War Memorial (AWM) has survived its first five...
View ArticleReview: Age of Bones (Jaman Belulang) at Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centre
One day, the 15-year-old Ikan, who is living in Indonesia with his family, is sent fishing by his mother. But he never returns. This is the premise for Sandra Thibodeaux’s compelling play Age of Bones...
View ArticleReview: Hidden Figures (2016)
Image: 20th Century Fox ‘Why have I not heard of these women before?’ has become the question from critics and audiences alike since the release of Hidden Figures. Why have the stories of three...
View ArticleOur Finest Diplomats: Client Liaison at Academy
It’s hard to know where to start when describing Melbourne-borne Client Liaison. Would you begin with their aesthetic, pulled straight from a bad fashion magazine in the 1980s? Or, perhaps, with their...
View ArticleReview: A Date for Mad Mary at the Mardi Gras Film Festival
A Date for Mad Mary (2016), shown at the Mardi Gras Film Festival this year, is a beautiful, dark, coming-of-age comedy about a young Irish girl just out of prison and determined to restore a lost...
View ArticleReview: Lego Film
Fans of The Lego Movie and the Batman franchise can all breathe easy: Animal Logic’s cash-in spin-off The Lego Batman Movie does your favourite films justice, and then some. Set in the same universe...
View ArticleA Night of Vocal Excellence: Kate Miller-Heidke and the National Pops Orchestra
Touring with the release of her recent EP The Best of Kate Miller-Heidke: Act One Kate Miller-Heidke and her husband, Keir Nuttall, performed in Canberra alongside The National Pops Orchestra. Kate...
View ArticleThe Magnificent Seven: A Review
Going into the cinema, I was quite intrigued to see what The Magnificent Seven remake had to offer. This modern take is a lot of fun, mainly due to the good rapport and visceral actioneering of the...
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