Dope
Director: Rick Famuyiwa Starring: Shameik Moore, Tony Revolori, Kiersey Clemons, Zoë Kravitz and A$AP Rocky Dope, one of the breakout hits of this year’s Sundance is (to go for the…
Review: Memento Mori (University Dramatic Society)
UDS’ latest offering, Memento Mori, follows the story of Leo, a gifted scientist who believes he is on the verge of discovering a way to drastically slow the process of…
Review: Friday the 14th (UWA Pantomime Society)
Never seen a pantomime? Unsure of what to expect, or wary of awkward cues seeking audience participation? Never fear: this high-energy production from the UWA Pantomime Society will soon see…
The Weeknd – Beauty Behind The Madness (Republic Records/XO)
In the video for ‘I Can’t Feel My Face’, the bonafide summer #banger from the Weeknd, Abel Tesfaye is set on fire after his performance in a discotheque. It’s a…
Theory of Obscurity: A Film About the Residents
Director: Don Hardy Jr. Starring: The Residents, Matt Groening, Les Claypool, Pen Gillette The Residents, for the uninitiated, are that band your weirdo friend tried to impress on you at…
Straight Outta Compton
Biopics aren’t really independent works of art. They’re inherently revisionist in nature, in that the constraints of scriptwriting and running time and the pressure to produce something with commercial appeal…
Royal Headache – High (Distant and Vague Recordings)
In 2009, I put out a call on social media asking what people’s favourite albums of that year were. A friend living on the East Coast, Matt Bellair, shot me…
Girls Pissing on Girls Pissing – Scrying in Infirmary Architecture (Muzai Records)
I was prepared to be disappointed on my first listen of Girls Pissing On Girls Pissing’s, Scrying in Infirmary Architecture. From the album’s two preceding singles ‘A Fraud Abroad’ and…
Gentlemen And Sledgers: A History of the Ashes in 100 Quotations and Confrontations by Rob Smyth
Some of the most stunning works of sport history in recent times have come not from historians but from the cabal of talented writers who have circled the offices of…
French Rockets – Arc (Independent)
Perth’s French Rockets have never been a band to embrace minimalism, and in keeping with this their latest album is heavily layered – seemingly held together by about 3 or…