The Cat and the Pelican: Cat Power Live at Perth Festival
Cat Power’s performance at Chevron Gardens for The Perth Festival on the 14th of February, was a mellow yet thoroughgoing experience. The atmosphere of the smoky, dark stage set the…
Vox Lux (REVIEW)
Vox Lux, dir. Brady Corbet, starring Natalie Portman, Jude Law and Raffey Cassidy A perplexing film to say the least. Vox Lux tells the story of Celeste (Natalie Portman), a…
Hotel Mumbai (Review)
On the 26th November 2008, a group of young men armed with explosives and AK-47s stormed the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, the result of a terror spree sweeping across key…
Ask Professor Pelly: How scientific is the Myers-Briggs Personality test?
Ask Professor Pelly is a column in which the Pelican science team answer your science-y questions Bradan asks: How scientifically accurate is the popular Myers-Briggs personality test? In case you…
#BREAKING Bettina Arndt is still set to speak at UWA despite actions from Student Guild and Working Groups
Controversial social commentator, sex therapist and ‘campus rape crisis’ critic, Bettina Ardnt, remains set to speak at the University of Western Australia despite several measures from the UWA Student Guild.…
Review: Andrew Nicholls, Hyperkulturemia
Walking into the foyer of the Art Gallery of Western Australia on a hot summer’s day always comes with a refreshing blast from AGWA’s mother of all air-conditioning systems. Even…
Hollywood, Where Dreams Come to Die
Cw: suicide, mental health Hollywood is the epicentre of commercial dreams. The dream, however, has particularly suffered in recent years. From the dawn of American filmmaking, generations of stars have…
Review: Alita: Battle Angel
Twenty years after James Cameron first became enamoured with the movie’s source material, a manga series created by Yukito Kishiro, Alita: Battle Angel is finally screening in cinemas. Having been…
The five biggest lies you will tell yourself at the beginning of a new semester at Uni
You will attend all your lectures If you are a fresher, fresh out of the comforting rigidity of high school, you will be forgiven for thinking that you will actually…
The Short Story: Arriving in Perth
Getting out of that cushioned chair was like easing out of five hours of inertia; the old fellow next door had begun rising up from a dream, seven-eighths submerged, with…