Category: CULTURE

  • Flash Gordon And Barbarella Vs The Galaxy – Film Review Friday

    Flash Gordon And Barbarella Vs The Galaxy – Film Review Friday

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    Mason Horsley
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    This week, we were doing a cleanout of the house and my zone was the attic. I’d never actually been in the attic before, and I had no idea what to expect. Armed with a flashlight, I lit up every chasm, picking up scraps of paper and plastic. In one corner I saw a glimmer.…

  • The Substance – Film Review Friday

    The Substance – Film Review Friday

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    Mason Horsley
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    I’ve set the equipment along my bathroom sink. Firstly, the activator, a green vial to be injected in the arm, secondly, the food packs, one set for me and the other for him, and lastly the switch, for when I just want to sleep for a week. I slowly fill the needle and inject myself.…

  • The Night Of The Hunter – Film Review Fridays

    The Night Of The Hunter – Film Review Fridays

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    Daniel Fagan
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    The Night of the Hunter (1955) dir. Charles Laughton “Ah, little lad, you’re staring at my fingers. Would you like me to tell you the little story of right-hand/left-hand? The story of good and evil?” Charles Laughton’s 1955 expressionistic masterpiece has, since its initial release, defied the typical categorisation attributed to films from critics and…

  • Shame – Film Review Friday

    Shame – Film Review Friday

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    Mason Horsley
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    We all want to be wanted, we all want to be desired, to be someone else’s drug. It’d be nice to be sexually revered. We hear differing opinions like “sex is poison” and “sex is power” or “sex is life”. That little endorphin kick as you and your partner become one in a single ever-lasting…

  • Merrigong presents Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap at the IPAC from 5th-15th September

    Merrigong presents Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap at the IPAC from 5th-15th September

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    Serena Emanuele
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    Merrigong presents Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap at the IPAC from the 5th – 15th September. I had the pleasure of attending on opening night and the performance quite literally had me at the edge of my seat the whole time. The stage was lavishly set as a 1950s living room of a newly-wed couple’s grand…

  • Sweet

    Sweet

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    The Tert
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    Last night I felt you near, as near as my own skin; With eyes that I’ve envisioned countless times in my dreams. Underneath the moonlit sky you pranced around in glee; In the place where you had left me – ages ago it seems.    In the hour of my ruin, you offered me reprieve;…

  • Friends in Every Universe?

    Friends in Every Universe?

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    The Tert
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    You ask, “Do you think we’re friends in every universe?”  My reaction is instinctive. Of course we are. You’re everything to me. My muse and my other half, as familiar to me as my reflection in a mirror. There’s nobody in this world that I consider myself closer to, nobody who understands me the way…

  • Amber Glass

    Amber Glass

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    The Tert
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    We look in the windows of apartments, rich and middle-class and imagine lives of ours. Swapping clothes with the woman lighting candles on her dining table. Cutting my hair like the woman reading under a lamp in her little library. Drinking wine that’s not from Aldi with just a few people who fill the entire…

  • Dreams and despair of a pop-music icon

    Dreams and despair of a pop-music icon

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    Ronan Colley
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    Brian Wilson, singer and principal songwriter for what today must look like an oldies act, The Beach Boys, is an interesting figure in the list of many heartbroken musicians that, understandably, pour their poor souls into the music so dearly loved by many. I say interesting because the guy’s been through more hoops than the…