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MERRIGONGX Theatre Company presents A Place in the Sultan’s Kitchen from the 8th to 10th of August at the IPAC. See the end of the article for information on tickets. Singer-songwriter and theatre-maker Joshua Hinton retells stories, passed down through generations and around the globe whilst cooking
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The drugs hit me at about the halfway mark of the trip. My best mate was driving when I looked up and saw the pterodactyls gliding across the sky I made sure to keep quiet, what could happen if my friend found out? Maybe he’d drive off a cliff
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Blankets of crystal-clear snow press against my boots. I had been traversing the tundra for four days, no - five. Or… seven? Someone can only take so much glimmering white powders now before losing their sanity. It sure didn’t help that I had found myself traversing countryside of a
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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’
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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,
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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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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
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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
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A P.I. walks down a dark, smoky alley, taking a shortcut on the way to a seedy speakeasy. As he walks down, raindrops from this morning’s monsoon fall to the black cobblestone path. The only light coming from the P.I.’s $10 cigarette which he sparks under