Category: CULTURE
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When We Were Kings – Film Review Friday
“I done wrestled with an alligator. That’s right. I have wrestled with an alligator. I done tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail. That’s bad! Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick! I’m so mean I make medicine sick! Bad, fast! Fast! Fast! Last…
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Before I Forget: A Review Of The ‘Before the Coffee Gets Cold’ Series
If you’re looking for a simple autumn read that you can have a crack at while having brekky, I can recommend a cosy series about a time-travelling café that provides its customers the closure they so desperately seek (with some caveats). As fond as I’ve grown to become of this series, Before the Coffee Gets…
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Sleepaway Camp – Film Review Fridays
Sometimes the real horror of a scary movie isn’t the demonic plaything, the alien monster or the immortal butcher who can stand against 5 shotgun blasts to the face. Sometimes the real horror is the evil that men do. When I say that, I don’t mean getting revenge by murdering your high school bullies at…
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Scent Of A Woman – Film Review Fridays
“A very very distant second is a Ferrari. Charlie, give me your hand. This is just the start of your education, son.” – Colonel Frank Slade I can’t explain how this film found a way to my heart. Maybe I was feeling depressed when I saw it for the first time on channel GEM…
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Identity, Visibility, and Pride: The Importance of The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade
Identity, Visibility, and Pride: The Importance of The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade By Edwina Cooke Affectionately dubbed “Gay Christmas”, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is a celebration of visibility, community, and pride. Beyond the loud music and bright lights there is also a deep history. The Sydney Mardi Gras…
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Gene Hackman: A Retrospective on the Greatest – A Film Review Friday Special Presentation
“You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, ‘Why didn’t I choose something else?’ But overall, I’m pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.” For a long while I’ve considered Gene Hackman to be the greatest…
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I Think Therefore I Doubt: Descartes’ Meditations
Descartes’ Meditation on First Philosophy René Descartes wrote against scepticism in the 17th century in his most famous text Meditations. Scepticism is a school of thought that demands the questioning of absolutely everything. Nothing can be what it seems because there is always a logical loophole or a catch to it. There are two types…
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Merrigong presents Trent Dalton’s ‘Love Stories’ at IPAC
Love, apparently, is three good things, so these are mine: my grandma, telling me she was the first person to see me when I was born; my best friend, sending me flowers from halfway across the world on my birthday because she just wanted me to know she loved me; and Guns N Roses, because…
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Friendship On Film – Film Review Friday Triple Feature
The Banshees Of Inisherin (2023) dir. Martin McDonagh – Reviewed by Mason Horsley “Even the worm will turn” – John Heywood It’s a great expression, and one I repeat in my mind regularly. Even the wotOut of fear and out of sick desire. I’m both afraid and…