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There's a certain subset of people who'll happily accept all kinds of ridiculousness in their cinema - guns that never need reloading, perfectly choreographed...

The future of Melburnian fashion isn’t necessarily stocked in-store, it’s evolving within studios, sketched in black folios and stitched together...

"Keret's stories are brief and powerful linguistic downpours, usually punctuated by uproarious climaxes." BOOKLIST (US)

Is your lack of reading...

Five degrees can make all the difference in Melbourne: five degrees this way, and the humid streets are transformed into Henry Miller’s World of...

There is nothing more regal or romantic than a wax sealed letter. Jane Austen tried countless times to come up with the literary equivalent, and despite...

For a sexually explicit and politically subversive producer, Christine Vachon holds a homely title.

The “Godmother of politically committed film”...

300 is a film that’s so stylish, so hyperbolic, its heroes might as well be fighting with exclamations points instead of spears. And you can...

When even a MIFF audience leaves the cinema muttering that a film is "too French", you know it must be very French indeed. A tortured romance...

Last time you were conjuring up a love potion, stabbing voodoo dolls over a relaxing G&T, or re-arranging your favourite wolves hides, did you ever...

It's official - white is the new black.

After Black Mountain, Black Angels, Black Dice, Black Keys, and Blackety Blackety Black Black (they're HUGE...

Recently I found myself shark hunting in the Gulf of Mexico with my very special friend Mr. Lou Diamond Phillips. We were sitting aboard my boat The...

In the peak of the festive season when spirits are at their highest and love and joy abound, there is no better time to take a good hard look at death...

It sounds simple. Four young guys decide to take a trip overseas in celebration of a mate’s upcoming wedding, and for a bit of cultural experience...

It's been worth the wait for the Fleet Foxes' well-crafted debut to rear its head; folk, country, and bluegrass mixed together to rather more dreamy...

I desire you would use all your skill to paint your picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughness, pimples, warts...

Written in a deliberately clipped, staccato fashion, The Contortionists Handbook acts to convey the rapid-fire thoughts of John Dolan Vincent, a fast-thinking...

Curated by Miso and Ghostpatrol, Drawing Fancy takes the whole stencil thing back to basics. Eighteen local and international...

Fitzroy Gardens is undeniably one of Melbourne's daytime delights. Ice cream vans. Peaceful Falun Gong practitioners. A greenhouse and statues. I once...

Laundry mats are more than just a place to wash your whites and score drugs. They're also great for reading books, meeting crazy people and getting knifed...

Between 1992 and 1997 R.L Stine made publishing history. His horror novels for children were listed as the fifteenth most challenged books of 1990-1999...