Leila Cochrane reviews Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! A campy retelling of the story of Ida, the bride to Frankenstein's Monster. If you haven't heard of Maggie Gyllenhaal's film ‘The Bride', you should take note. A feminist reimagining of the original 1935 cinematic release of "Bride of Frankenstein" by James Whale, The Bride! gives life to the monster's 'girlfriend', named Ida, played by Jessie Buckley. Under director Maggie Gyllenhaal's vision, The Bride! takes place in

Erin Kavanagh writes Is Rage Just Guilt Disguised, a window into the reality that is women's healthcare rights. Tick. Tick. Tick.  I shut my eyes tight, hoping that would somehow block out that damn clock. It’s not enough that the lady next to me is bouncing her leg up and down, shaking the couch we’re sitting on, or that the pregnant woman across the room is flipping through a magazine in the loudest way possible. It isn’t enough that this clinic seems to be the absolute hot

Ashleigh Illingworth writes The Day He Said I Do, a sombre story about watching your dreams fade before your eyes. She sits at the table across the room, the world passing her by. Her stunning, satin, lavender dress, draping over her statuesque figure. People thriving in conversations that she couldn’t be further away from. The guests are walking past, dancing, enjoying the festivities, but she seems to be floating in space. Travelling to another planet, maybe even another u

Dreams have come true as Australia's first-ever Paralympic three-on-three basketball team has touched down in Puerto Rico, Daniell Allen reports. Special Olympics Australia and the Eltham community have joined forces to send off Australia's entry to the first-ever three-on-three basketball World Cup: Enter, the Eltham Wildcats. The Wildcats are shooting for gold this 3x3 Basketball World Cup. (Image: Supplied) Touching down in San Juan, Puerto Rico, today, the Wildcats have

Amy Anderson captures the quiet moments where we wonder when we left our inner child behind in Before August. We race to grow up and then wish we never grew (Image: Adobe Stock) During that summer when I was nine years old, I would ride my second-hand pink bike around the neighbourhood. The other kids in the street would join me. We knew nothing of the world, and the world knew nothing of us yet.  It was always Abbey’s front yard where we’d leave our bikes all over the lawn,

Genevieve Spiteri reviews Australia's fourth run of Charles Dickens' beloved Christmas tale. Heavy spoilers ahead for the novel and light spoilers for this production! (Although if you don’t know how the story goes by this point, that’s kind of on you)   Premiering to London audiences nine years ago, Matthew Warcus and Jack Thorne’s production of A Christmas Carol  has been praised as one of the greatest theatrical adaptations of the source material, and after experiencing it

Amy Anderson writes Broken Bones for the Prose Poetics unit, a story on love and heartbreak. Some broken things never mend (Image: Adobe Stock) She’d broken her arm the day after we broke up. Karma, I’d say. ‘Get up.’ She says it coldly, standing over me. I must've fallen asleep. ‘Fuck off, B.’ I mumble it out, enjoying the damp grass on the bottom of my back. I close my eyes, and she kicks me in the arm. ‘I said fuck off, B,’ I say a little louder. ‘Jamie, stop being a prick

Swinburne students will be taking the stage at the Leadbeater Hotel for the third annual Inter-Varsity Battle of the Bands this Friday, Ella O'Neill and Matthew Parkhill report. Melbourne's music gig scene is not exactly rock n' roll. Musicians are expected more than ever to fork out cash for gigs themselves and create their own brand, playing a game of 'who you know' to get the ball rolling. Since COVID, venues have seen running costs soar, passing on some of those demands t

Afia Khan reviews Deadbeat, the latest electro, psychedelic fusion from Aussie indie legend Tame Impala. Tame Impala, the psychedelic music project by Australian multi-instrumentalist and singer Kevin Parker, has released a new album after five years.   Titled ‘ Deadbeat ’, the fifth studio album is an ode to the highs and lows experienced at a rave.    Recorded in the Californian coastal town of Montecito and at his studio Wave House in Yallingup, Western Australia, it took

Maggie Papas spoke to student fashion designers showcasing their work today at Melbourne Fashion Week. Talented student fashion designers will showcase their collections at the sold-out Student Collections Runway today in Kensington for Melbourne Fashion Week.   Amongst the next generation of designers are Flora Bellemo and Stephanie Hockey, whose inspirations towards their collections are stylistically different, but both challenge social perceptions and issues through creat

Daniel Allen reviews renowned director Paul Thomas Anderson's newest action comedy, starring Leo DiCaprio, Benicio del Toro and Sean Penn. 'One Battle After Another’ scratches two different spots in my cinephile brain: the absurdist political satire section and the edge-of-your-seat action/thriller section. Loosely inspired by Thomas Pynchon's novel Vineland (1990), this 3-hour journey takes the audience on a memorable fugitive thriller/comedy epic with gorgeous cinematic sh

Brent Lynn reports on the last nail in the coffin for many of Australia's brick-and-mortar comic book stores. James Jagic, owner of Brisbane's ComicsETC, has lost thousands of dollars since the collapse of Australia's primary comic distributor, Diamond Distribution. For owners like Jagic, Diamond Distribution was the first and easiest choice for stock, owning essentially a monoply of the market. But when cracks appeared in their business, Jagec switched early to alternatives