The critic game is a dirty business. Us movie reviewer types are bought off, blackmailing, career-ending mafiosos behind the scenes. Watching Lost Illusions, the wall was shattered, and the gig was up.

Although I’ll never get those 82 minutes back, I have no regrets at all, I’d even be willing to spend another 82 on a rewatch.

From tales of first love and having a cool job, to butt sex, racist grandmothers and horse girls, Inexcusable serves an open platter of painfully-personal tales that will make you laugh out loud…

Yummy Deluxe is a glitter soaked fever dream that will leave you longing to ditch your boring job and follow your dreams.

Imagine David Lynch meets Sesame Street, meets Fred Rogers, meet Broadway, but wait - make everything rainbow, and dial up the saturation to eleven, and you might have a sense of what NEUROMANTIC is like…

Finucane rewards your keen ears by sprinkling dark humour into places it feels it ought not to go…

Merging together the notions of workplace conflict, societal status, a “Who done it?” mystery along with a hint of suspected romance, there was never boredom in the unfolding events…

This modern adaption of the classic legend, directed by Dudi Zvedeniuk, takes place in a space devoid of the conventional narrative. Or at least it is an iteration stripped back to its most figurative and psychological parts…

Now at the St Kilda Film Festival 2019, the Slamdance Mixtape 2 showcased an eccentric mix of short films…

‘You’d better like sport,’ was the popular response to my saying I was going to see writer and broadcaster Titus O’ Reily perform at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival…

The Lady is a Tramp, performed as a part of the Melbourne Cabaret Festival, is a celebration of not just Dolly but all women.

For those of you who don’t know him, Ben Pobjie is a self-described writer, comedian and poet with ‘no journalistic qualifications whatsoever.’