It seems as if all the most prominent news coverage over the last month has been concerned with Kim Kardashian and Justin Bieber. This worries me for a number of reasons, one being that the generation responsible for the popularity of these individuals will be looking after me in my old age and I don’t [...]

Cunning and conniving, we of the Y will be the first generation forever etched into the recesses of cyberspace forever and in real time – something that all of Generation Y has grasped with a ferocity not seen in terms of social change since Surfies realised what you could really do in the back of [...]

By Natalie Salvo
Philip Seymour Hoffman stars as Father Brendan Flynn, a young priest at the St. Nicholas church and school in the Bronx in 1964. He is at loggerheads with the principal, Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep) a fiery and iron-fisted dragon not dissimilar in character to the strong-willed Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears [...]

By Natalie Salvo
A film adaptation of a play originally written by English playwright, Noël Coward in the roaring twenties is given a contemporary makeover by writer/director, Stephan Elliott (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert). The result is an atypical period piece brimming with comedic moments that ensure the audience will have a gay [...]

By Ferrier
I took the precious patch out, slapped the small square on an arse cheek and waited for a fundemental change. I’d gone to the chemist in search of support. I’d read the packet, checking for side effects. They seemed minimal, but I noted the warning to drink elevated levels of water, hydration a necessity.
I [...]

By Juliet Bathory
Consumers – that’s the term applied to us when we stopped living to survive and started living to experience. Of course an experience worth having carries a price tag, and over the years our society has revolved around just how much we are willing to part with to have that moment in a [...]

By Marty Smiley
The band of two played at Festival Hall, Melbourne, on the 11th of December. Tickets sold out in three minutes. I was lucky enough to get one.
The night began with two support acts, Tame Impala and Luke Steele before the boys of MGMT graced the stage in darkness. The screams of young girls, [...]