Perth rebel artists defeat Woodside and Chevron’s social licence
The Perth Festival and Fringe World Festival (said to be the third largest fringe festival globally) will commence their 2024 seasons with a major difference: they... Read more.
Israelism: Why young American Jews are breaking from Zionism
Israelism, seven years in the making, reveals the deep roots of the Jewish anti-Zionist movement and the turbo-charged pro-Israel propaganda that it is responding... Read more.
Sean Healy, 1972–2023, a life of service to humanity
Sean Healy, a life-long, and as a younger person a revolutionary, humanitarian died in Melbourne on Sunday, November 26. He was a significant theorist within the... Read more.
The Old Oak: A love letter to the British working class
At age 87, this may be Ken Loach’s last film. If so, it is his love letter to the working class that he has served all his career.... Read more.
Tantura: the truth about al Nakba that Israel refuses to accept
Alon Schwarz's Tantura shows how naïve it is to accept the myth that Israel was established heroically, that the Palestinian population simply ran away and allowed... Read more.
Hipgnosis: graphic artists who reflected an era
Squaring the Circle is the story of Hipgnosis and by default chronicles a particular slice of cultural history.... Read more.
The Eight Mountains: a rare gem of a movie about men
The Eight Mountains is a hymn of praise to human friendship and enduring relationship to physical place, the kind of relationships that Aboriginal people speak of.... Read more.
The Wife and Her House Husband: a window into modern capitalist life
The Wife and Her House Husband was shot during COVID shutdown in London, so there is physical distance between characters and no crowd scenes. This perfectly suits... Read more.
The glittering Hollywood closet that Rock Hudson hid in
Roy Harold Scherer Jr. went from obscurity in his home state of Illinois via a World War II stint in the US Navy to ascending to Hollywood stardom under the name... Read more.
The death of Cleveland Dodd and the ongoing horror of Indigenous youth detention in WA
300 people from various Indigenous communities and non-Indigenous supporters gathered in Perth’s Forrest Chase public square on Wednesday October 25 to protest... Read more.