Macbeth

Artists should learn to leave their work alone. Director's cut are often vanity projects or novelty acts: sometimes worrying their own work to death,like...

Many zines throughout history have been lowbrow. That was their whole shtick really. But sometimes haphazard photocopying and an overload of cut and paste...

Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me was a lightning-strike to the zeitgeist with a high-concept hook pitched for maximum McDamage. Can the same be said...

In On the Beach, Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner fall tragically in love as they wait for the nuclear fallout that has already wiped out the Northern...

It seems the new way to make a splash when fitting out a store in Melbourne is making it temporary. First we heard of the three-month ‘residency...

A mood-disordered green hairy homeless person hanging out with a gay worm, a bird who lives in a vacant lot in Harlem, hallucinating that his best friend...

When Gwen Stefani stepped into Harajuku the world went crazy for Japan's 'street' style. But just over the Sea of Japan, Korea's kids are also bashing...

Forget to flit about the Art Fair last weekend? Or did you, in fact, flit... did you don your good jeans and was your spirit (and budget) broken by the...

Twinkle Twinkle, the title of Rhys Lee's current exhibition at Helen Gory Galerie, confirms that this young art-star is burning bright. A prolific and...

"They're turning kids into slaves, just to make cheaper sneakers. What's the real cost cause the sneakers don't seem that much cheaper? Why are we...

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

Oh, the ancients were a clever people. They discovered early on that the ingestion of certain plants and berries could mess you up pretty good, and make...

It has been said, and perhaps rightly so, that there's not much to do in Brisbane of an evening. Sometimes there's not much to do of a morning either...

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...

Gus Vant Sant is synonymous with a particular brand of American arthouse, epitomised by films like Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho. Since...

In 1986, before headbangers were (ironically) hip, when camera crews were still a novelty worth cavorting drunkenly before, a dude from D.C. borrowed...

There was once a certain rock band who intentionally produced an album that was so left-field that their heavyweight record company, Virgin, had to break...

The bookshelf is a prized pantry of carefully selected manuscripts, fine films, musical specimens, exotic publications and zine-like hooha. Keeping all...

It's a shame that slogan t-shirts are lamer than a guy who just got stabbed in the kneecap with a wasp knife, because the other day I was inside my...

Are you familiar with the simultaneously glorious and dismaying feeling that results in the sudden realisation that you are just never going to be as...