Despicable Me sequel not despicable after all

Whenever news spreads of a sequel, one is best advised to hide away from all outside contact until the sophomore film has played out in cinemas, been trashed by critics, and subsequently confined… Read More

Google offers mediocre internship

This article first appeared on Film Blerg Google’s list of achievement includes making a search engine, an email service, and a searchable world map. In The Internship, Google adds yet another string to its bow.… Read More

How are you surviving?

This article was first published on Youth Central All week, my friends greeted me with the same question, “How are you surviving?” Given how much I had flooded my Facebook page with Live… Read More

Melbored? – Gosch’s Paddock

This article first appeared in Farrago (Issue 4, 2013) With no disrespect to the Neighbours cast or the gangland community, the closest thing Melbourne has to celebrities are footballers. If they’re not on… Read More

Melbored? – The Melbourne Magistrate’s Court

This article first appeared in Farrago (Issue 3, 2013) When people put together their bucket list, “going to court” doesn’t usually make the cut. Much like prisons, brothels, and the Docklands, the courts… Read More

How do you change the way Australians think about poverty?

This article was first published on WhyDev.org on behalf of the Live Below the Line charity campaign. How do you change the way Australians think about poverty, let alone extreme poverty? That’s the number one… Read More

The Other Son shows how the other half lives

This article first appeared on Film Blerg. If you weren’t you, who would you be? That’s the questionLorraine Levy asks us in her captivating film The Other Son. The Other Son begins with the kind of premise… Read More

Axis of Awesome live up to their name

This article first appeared on Farrago. Not many good things came out of 2005’s television flop The Ronnie Johns Half Hour. Jordan Raskopoulos, however, seems to be the exception. Unlike the show in which… Read More

No, the film is called No

  This article first appeared on Film Blerg.As exciting as Chilean politics might be to some people, it’s a subject area most Westerners seldom bother to touch. In No,director Pablo Larraín attempts to re-tell one of… Read More

Josh Thomas preaches to the converted

This article first appeared at Farrago. This might sound like I’m stating the obvious, but if you don’t like Josh Thomas, you won’t like his new show. That’s not to say that Thomas’… Read More

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