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The Darjeeling Limited (2007) dir. Wes Anderson “I wonder if the three of us would’ve been friends in real life. Not as brothers, but as people.” If I had to choose a film from Wes Anderson’s rapidly growing filmography that has aged the finest, it would have to
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10:30 PM. Chicago Institute of Art. Under the cover of darkness, Daniel flies me in a helicopter over the rooftop, I strap myself to the rope and rappel down. I jog over to the skylight and examine each frame. At the very end of the room it hangs: ‘Nighthawks’
On the third day of EdCon, the schedule showed a queer office plenary but the socialist students running it had a different plan. When students started calling it the “free speech plenary”, a third of the whole plenary stood up and left the conference resulting in quite a bit of
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In 2006, we were introduced to two new formats: Blu-Ray and HD DVD. Media was evolving, 720 pixels weren’t enough for us anymore. We wanted more realistic video, more engaging sound, we wanted to physically feel the movie. The heat as John McClane jumped from an exploding helicopter, the
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After the very intense plenary, we had three separate workshops which we could choose from. I attended the ‘We got ‘Paid’ placements, no what?’ workshop. The speaker started by giving us a recap of what has been going on with paid placements. She stated that there have been shortages since
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On Day 2 of Edcon, we started with the plenary from the welfare office where we discussed issues such as the food insecurity among students, accommodation and student life on campuses more broadly. The first question posed to the panel was, ‘how can our councils support students to address food
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The Firm (1993) dir. Sydney Pollack “It's not sexy, but it's got teeth!” While the 21st century has seen its share of legal thrillers with 2023’s Academy Award winning Anatomy of a Fall, 2007’s Michael Clayton, and 2019’s criminally underseen Dark Waters it
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Every year, students from different universities around Australia, members of the National Union of Students (NUS), get together at a conference for several days to discuss, debate and learn about student politics and the direction of student life. The Education Conference this year is taking place at Curtin University in
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You gaze down at your last hit. It could be a syringe, a tablet, some powder, it could be a beer or a shot of vodka. You try desperately not to grab at it, you’re in cold sweats just thinking about how calm it’ll be when you take
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“If the ‘self’ is a construct, and it’s all just role play, do you think people can change?” Richard Linklater’s latest foray leads audiences to a road less travelled in the mainstream cinema of today. A road full of rough edges, diminished morality and a leading man who,
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Over the weekend I had the pleasure of attending a play put on by students at UOW called Fractured. It was a collection of four plays in which the first three were written by the celebrated socialist-feminist playwright Caryl Churchill: Kill, Glass and Bluebeard’s Friends. These plays delve into
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The Zone of Interest was the area surrounding Auschwitz concentration camp created in 1941 to house SS officers. Right on the other side of the fence, Rudolf Höss and his family lived a privileged life inside a two-storey home with servants, a garden, a pool, access to a stream for