They say that music and entertainment can be the greatest forms of escapism, when reality appears helpless and difficult. It’s one of the oldest…
Editorials
Mad Max: Fury Road Five Years Later: What We Can Learn About Surviving Together
“Who killed the world?” This question is splattered across the walls, carved into the floors, etched in dirt, and spoken aloud multiple times th…
Miles’s Star Wars Book Reports – Reviewing The Disney EU Canon
The expanded universes of a lot of existing franchise lore can be confusing, and none as much so as our beloved Star Wars. While the movies have been …
Scare Me Silly: Kay Cannon, Please Direct a Rosemary’s Baby Remake
Humans have gotten exceptionally good at evolution, at Darwin’s grand idea of natural selection, at not dying sooner than we should. We live in sturdi…
The Carnival Is Over: An Introduction to the Australian Festival Controversy
We look into the dying festival culture in Australia and the policies against them. Picture this.A world where teens and students dance in grassy fiel…
Solid Rock: A Brief Inquiry into the Decline of Australian Rock
What has happened to Australian rock? What happened to the days of big hair and bigger dreams, trench coats and ambition, running off to Sydney with a…
With or Without Capes: Our Personal Heroes on International Women’s Day
We take time out of busy schedules to celebrate the women – fictionalized and not – who we either idolized as children, admired as adults …