With each run strictly limited and with several hip artists contributing to each, Be@rbrick are like troll dolls for the highbrow, or art for plebs...

Bruce LaBruce: not for the kiddies. If only we had noted this on the 2007 Rooftop Cinema program next to Raspberry Reich. Anyway, you know, bygones...

If you're anything like us, all it takes is two beers, and the next thing you know, you’re surrounded by 20 sweating salarymen in a small cubicle...

So this is it. The final laundry mat review. Over the last five weeks we've covered the inner west, south, north and east. For the grand finale I wanted...

When the word best-seller is used to describe a book it makes most purists gag and conjures thoughts of Dan Brown-esque chapter hooks and characters thinner...

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

Is your lack of reading...

This never happened with VHS. Sure, we had to fast-forward through that "HAVE ... YOU ... GOT ... WHAT ... YOU ... PAID ... FOR?" anti-piracy...

There is a difference between entertainment and appreciation. Entertainment is a way to pass time, something passive, a way to boost morale, a bag of...

Bruce “My Parents Are Dead!” Wayne has great toys and fashion sense, but crippling angst. The first act of Iron Man, though, is packed with...

Definitely more impressive than a mule, Band Of Horses sound is far from sterile. Bred from orchestral pop band Carissa’s Weird and released...

“They wear their hearts on their sleeves, have their heads in the sky and their guts in the gutter. This is the life of a hopeless romantic.”

Is...

PM: Lamington Drive is a pretty weird name for a gallery.

JW: Jeremy Wortsman is an even weirder name, so that wasn't an option.

PM: Why did you...

Arising from a concern that homosexuality and mediocrity were beginning to blend TSHDT? is, so they say, a look book for gay men and their admirers...

Deep breath. Okay. Standard Operating Procedure is a horror film first and documentary second.

Too many documentaries are mediocre films on amazing...

With a cast of characters initially tied together only by the family unit and their own fallibility,Little Miss Sunshine is a road trip film of...

When Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni died within a week of each other almost a year ago, it felt like a failed Punk'd sketch: some ghoulish...

What do you get when you cross a well-over-it’s-use-by-date Fletcher Jones skirt, circa 1993, with a sports jacket you’d pick up from a thrift...

With tedious predictability, every year I exclaim, ‘I wish you could get hot cross buns the whole year round’, and then realise that they...

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...

In true Melbourne style, Murmur Bar is tucked away down a dark little way with only a faintly glowing sign to mark its presence. But, unlike some other...