The Video Music Awards red carpet is historically known for presenting some wild creations, and 2021 was no exception. Not to be outdone, the Met Gala raised the fashion stakes with this year’s theme, In America: A Lexicon of Fashion, producing many iconic looks. Here are some of the best dressed from both events. Megan Fox Fox put it all on display for the VMAs in a bold, sheer Thierry Mugler gown. Fox was accompanied by partner and VMA nominee Machine Gun Kelly. Embed f

Puffy sleeves, bell bottoms, hair flicks, off-the-shoulder sweatshirts and even corsets. They’ve all had their moments in the fashion sun, thanks to our desire to emulate the style of great film and TV shows. In the 1930s it was all about bright-eyed Shirley Temple, with mothers dressing their daughters in smocked shift dresses, puffed sleeves and cutesy collars to imitate her style. In the ’70s it was recreating Farrah Fawcett’s voluminous hair flicks and stepping out in Joh

Tickets were at the ready, the popcorn freshly popped, when a sudden lockdown left Melbourne’s cinemas dark and empty. But that doesn’t mean the party stopped. Melbourne’s independent film community is refusing to give up, and is turning to streaming platforms instead. It’s a spreading trend with the potential to change the future of how we go to the movies. The 2021 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), which ran a few weeks ago, was delivered exclusively via thei

When Campbell Gray began Well Fed Records in 2019, he saw it as a way to get his music out there without it getting lost online. Gray’s band prerock. exports a ruthless brand of droning metal, fitting snugly within a flourishing Melbourne experimental rock pantheon. Well Fed Records distributed Prerock’s music on cassette, selling a limited run of purple tapes at gigs around the city for $10 each. “The tapes we did for [prerock.] were really cheap,” said Gray. “They sound g

The much-anticipated 10th studio album of acclaimed rapper/producer Kanye West has finally dropped after over a year of pushed back release dates and a string of in person listening events. Almost all of it is well worth the hype. Donda is West’s newest one hour 48-minute behemoth – his longest project to date. With a 27-song track list, it’s a massive album and at times can seem like a slog to sit through. However, each time it drags, the next song kicks in and cements itse

Struggling with the state of the world right now? Same, friend, same. So, it’s time to put some smiles back on those dials with a dose of Mindy Kaling. Mindy is a comedy powerhouse, and while there aren’t/better not be enough lockdown days to cover all her work, here are five favourites to get you started … and they’re all on Netflix. 1. The Office Haven’t watched The Office yet? First question, how dare you? Kelly Kapoor is iconic. Kelly Kapoor (Kaling) is neurotic, endear

I’d rather be there than here, says Melbourne writer and director Siobhan Paterson. There is the setting of the film Palm Springs , with sun, sand, and the heart-stealing Andy Samberg, and here is yet another Melbourne lockdown. Siobhan, who has written and directed many films during Melbourne’s lockdowns, says she found an escape through film. “Watching movies and making films is keeping me sane during the pandemic,” she says. Siobhan began producing her own short films duri

Warning: contains spoilers With more gold and more at stake, the suspense has increased tenfold in the second season of Netflix’s treasure hunt hit, Outer Banks. The familiar theme song of Alt-J’s Left Hand Free plays in the background as the new season follows four main plot points, seamlessly weaving in new characters and storylines. The most important of these is the continuation of last season’s hunt for the gold where we followed a group of teenagers from the wrong s

Warning: minor spoilers for seasons 1 & 2 The adult animated series Final Space , created by Olan Rogers, is odd to describe. At its core, it’s sci-fi, set in a future where space travel and alliances with other planets are completely normal. But it’s also a comedy, where wildly funny jokes balance hard-hitting, suspenseful drama and action. If that wasn’t enough, there’s also a central love story and even some supernatural elements thrown into the mix. This impressive and

Lil Nas X’s “Industry Baby” music video is a joyful celebration of queerness in hip-hop, packaged in a tongue-in-cheek prison break story. After sliding down a stripper pole to Hell, giving Satan a lap dance and then taking his crown, Lil Nas X left some wondering what else he might do to keep fans coming back for more. In. response, Lil Nas X says, “hold my Grammy”, and comes out guns blazing (literally, if you count the amount of shirtless screen time). Sticking to his t

The new song from technical death metal stalwarts Rivers of Nihil begins with a lone, mournful guitar fit for a forlorn Morricone, before exploding. From there, the Pennsylvania-based band effortlessly shifts from moments of quiet anguish to righteous anger, with a surprising number of clean vocals adding further deviation from their initial tech death label. The Pennsylvania-based band dropped their latest song and first single— Clean —in late July, from their upcoming alb

In honour of our latest lockdown, here are six movies that will help you weather the storm. 1. Sweet Virginia, a neo-Western thriller Jon Bernthal ( Widows, Sicario, Wind River ) delivers a career-best performance as a motel owner who unknowingly befriends a violent sociopath. What ensues is the tense unravelling of a story about an unlikely friendship. This thriller expertly plays on genre conventions and uses them to its advantage to create a chilling and utterly brillian