Junior and Jerry's Birthday - This is Not a Party

Is that great literature in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? Penguin have celebrated 70 years of accessible high quality writing with well...

It seems that the kitsch movement brought with it personality crises for many every day objects. Sofas became beds. Lamps became naked ladies holding...

As most people know, Honkytonks is nearing its end. Feeling like some sort of mini-apocalypse, tributes are being made to honour the most iconic bar...

There is great joy in giving gifts... but not always so much joy in finding them. Especially not if you have to do it in a sweaty, drunken, Christmas-party-fuelled...

In a perfect world, directors would be forced to submit reasons in triplicate for exactly why their films should run for any longer than 87 minutes. As...

Male models, fish hooks in the face, endless self-examination and Dixieland jazz. All too often, we rely on film for most of our cultural reference points...

So many people felt betrayed. Good people. People who had spent weeks - months even - sitting at their computers staring at a sixteen year-old, not...

Cutting your own hair at 12.40am after six or eight beers is a lonely, unnerving business. But wetting my hair in the bathroom mirror, I'm definitely...

Fabulous Diamonds make avant garde music humbly disguised as pop minimalism. A counterpoint to all card-carrying local ‘art' groups, this restlessly...

Johnny Rubble's official job is to design public transport infrastructure, but don't hold it against him! He completely redeems himself by doing what...

You can imagine that if Jens Lekman wasn’t singing he would, in fact, be silent. He would be that shy guy,who sits thinking, laughs occasionally...

Myer stocktake sale? The biggest sale in the country? Phht. Whatever.

If it's the knocks and bruises to the bottom lip you're after, then clamber the...

It all began like this:

GHOST/SPECTRE needed to spook out ex-girlfriend. Must be terrifying, missing limbs/head preferred.

And reached an arguable...

November 1982: LIFE magazine gathers together the best arcade game players for a tournament and a delightfully enthusiastic picture, cheerleaders and...

Before there were computers, people did EVERYTHING by hand. This might seem unbelievable to those of us that now consider our computers lifelines, but...

When Patti Smith moved to NYC in 1967 she said she was going to "kick poetry's ass". Obviously it was not only poetry's butt that had the...

Why does everyone love Pixar? Exhibit A: when Pixar became aware of footage showing someone who cried every time the hero of their latest film simply...

Cinema and surveillance go hand in hand. In fact, someone really needs to put together a Surveillance Film Festival: Coppola’s The Conversation...

Is Speed Racer Kubrick's 2001 for kids?

To call its reception 'lukewarm' is an understatement, and it's easy to see why. It's too child-friendly...

Film festivals occasionally throw a few obscure horror gems into their programs to up their cool quotient, but MIFF takes it a step further this year...