Activists unite! The 2016 The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (HRAFF) is coming to Melbourne on the 5th of May and running through to the 19th. It showcases an incredible selection of documentaries, narrative films, animated features, and shorts. I spoke…
Melbourne continues its prominence as the cultural capitol of Australia, and it’s not hard to see why. Some of our favourites of the year are on this month, from beer to jazz festivals to Eurovision. We’re hard-pressed with what we’re looking…
A film festival can be seen as the artistic expression of a culture, a way of celebrating achievements or articulating difficult past events. Running from 30 April to 12 May, the Jewish International Film Festival’s Holocaust Film Series presents 30…
It’s better than Xmas! At least that’s how I felt bouncing around my lounge room in my pyjamas the morning the Good Beer Week program launched. With 270 events in the festival this year, there is an awesome range of…
Last Saturday, December 1928, Lord Quiten Daventry hosted his annual party bash. Not knowing him in person, I had a business proposition to make – that he sell his manor house so I, the baron Gerhaard Haase, Swedish property tycoon,…
Stephen Amos is a Melbourne Comedy Festival pro. He has been attending the festival and entertaining Melburnians for over a decades, and this year he has two performances! An intimate talk show and the larger ‘The Laughter Master’. I was lucky…
Palace Cinemas held the great opening of the 2016 Spanish Film Festival with a night full of killer tunes and lots of dancing, tapas, and paella along with the screening of Spanish Affair 2, which has become one of the most…
What’s the worst thing that any comedy-goer fears when seeing stand-up. Being late. Being late to a person who can take you apart for being late. Well we were late, only five mins and to my relief Arj Barker wasn’t…
What happens when an asteroid hits Earth and a new species arises? It is something that I have pondered from time to time but I don’t think I have given it as much thought as Kate. In her Melbourne Comedy Festival…
Wil Anderson is significantly better than Madonna – cheaper, more value for money, and starting at 8:47pm, he had a much happier audience. Coming off his two shows from last year, including ‘Political Wil’, and with a constant tendency for…