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Film review: The Long Walk In 1979, when Richard Bachman's novel The Long Walk first released, it was read largely as a book reflecting on the Vietnam War: a conflict where young people were drafted and sent to their death with little sense of reason or purpose. The promised glory...

I had the absolute pleasure of being able to see Alfonso Cuaron’s 2006 modern masterpiece Children of Men on the big screen, thanks to the Sydney Opera House and Alexei Toliopoulos’ new Saturday Film Club. Being way too young to have been able to see it on its original theatrical...

Friendship is a strange thing. It sneaks up on us, it saves us, and sometimes it complicates our lives more than we’d like. Now in it's hysterical second season, the Apple TV+ series Platonic, starring Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen, leans hard into that messy, awkward, necessary part of life:...

In late June I had the immense privilege of participating in an Adnyamathanha Pilgrimage, led by Rev. Dr Aunty Denise Champion. It ran over four days and took us from Tarndanya (Adelaide) in Kaurna country, through or past Nukunu, Narangga, Ngadjuri, and Banggarla lands, to the stunning Flinders Ranges in...

Review: The Death of Stalin, Sheila Fitzpatrick, Black Inc. Books Joseph Stalin’s death was something of a ‘black comedy’, writes Sheila Fitzpatrick, and, indeed, it is treated as such in the 2017 film that shares its name with Fitzpatrick’s book. By 1953 Stalin was aged and was in the habit...

Game Review: Drag X Drive Drag X Drive is a unique prospect - a new launch-period game from Nintendo that centers around wheelchair basketball. Playing it requires a certain level of embodiment as you control it using the Joy-Con 2's mouse mode, rolling both controllers across a surface to control...