Gemma Bovery
Director: Anne Fontaine Starring: Gemma Arterton, Jason Flemyng, Fabrice Luchini, Niels Schneider Gemma Bovery, the latest film from Anne Fontaine, is a tragicomedy based on Posy Simmond’s graphic novel re-imagination…
Jurassic World
Director: Colin Trevorrow Starring: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, dinosaurs! You know your franchise reboot is in trouble when its best moments are explicit references to the much, much better…
One hundred years on: Does Russia need another revolution?
Words by Brad Griffin In 1917, Imperialist Russia was swept away by two cataclysmic revolutions in February and October (March and November, depending on which calendar you’re using). The old,…
Pass the Salt
Words by Nathaniel Wells We’re all pretty familiar with activists, I’m sure. You can’t walk five-hundred metres within the confines of UWA without encountering one under a bridge. They’re not…
Green vs. Mean: Pelican Does Top Gear
I am not a car person. I want to make that clear before I get into this. I will not, throughout this article, be making use of that secret language…
How to Run Your Own Art Exhibition as a Student
Kate Prendergast interviews Nelson Jeffrey & Frankie Shaw How did you come up with the idea of running your own exhibition? Over the years we have come across many artists…
Fringe Binge
You wake up on a balmy February morning, tangled in your sweaty sheets. You had a terrible nightmare, and yet even in the light of day it seemed so real.…
The Popularist Manifesto (Party for Your Right to Fight)
So you want to change the world. In the words of Joe Strummer, “You gotta give it all you got, or forget it,” and he’d know: their protest song, ‘Rock…
Personal and Political
This year has seen the release of two of the most valorised political films in recent years in Ava Duvernay’s Selma, disturbingly relevant in the America of Mike Brown and…
Dream Rimmy – Dream Rimmy EP (Independent)
The term “up and coming” has been prone to overuse in the Perth music scene, but this is a well-founded depiction of Dream Rimmy in terms of the musical quality…