52 Films By Women 4. American Psycho, directed by
Mary Harron

4. American Psycho, directed by
Mary Harron

American Psycho: Do All Psychopathic Murderers Look That Celestial?   Given an R Rating for a reason, this film is based on the novel which was famously banned in several countries for its controversial and explicit content. In other countries, like Australia, the book was wrapped in a protective cover. Thankfully, much of the intensely graphic …

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Music Best Songs in the Hottest 100

Best Songs in the Hottest 100

Looking at Music that Popticon Doesn’t Often Give it’s Fair Due, Here’s What We Enjoyed in Triple J’s Hottest 100   This afternoon, countless Australians around the country gathered to have a barbie and a game of beach cricket in order to commemorate our unblemished history and awesome treatment of Aboriginal people. Many will take …

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News & Events Oscar Nominations and Picks

Oscar Nominations and Picks

La La Land Got Nominated For Everything… Seriously   After a controversial two year run of nominating only white people in every acting category, the Oscars decided to stop playing the, “We can’t be racist, we have black friends!” card and actually nominate some people of colour. So, in that regard alone, we’re off to a …

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Music Our First 100 Days

Our First 100 Days

Our First 100 Days is A Worthy Cause That Doubles As A Great Source For New and Unearthed Songs   There a lot of things that Donald Trump has pledged to do in his first 100 days in office, some of which he got under way with almost immediately, like dismantling health care for millions of …

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Lists TV Shows We Missed in 2016, part 2

TV Shows We Missed in 2016, part 2

Our Second Instalment on the Shows We Really Wish Were Still Around Last Year

Lists TV Shows We Missed in 2016, part 1

TV Shows We Missed in 2016, part 1

We Take a Look at Some of Our Favourite Programs That, For Whatever Reason, Weren’t Around Last Year

Video Games The Last of Us Part II

The Last of Us Part II

The Upcoming Sequel to the Best Video Game of the Modern Era Might Actually Be a Really Bad Idea   These shouldn’t be SPOILERS because you really should have done your earthy duty and played this but, in case you haven’t, go and do that now before this ruins the best game you haven’t gotten around …

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52 Films By Women 3. Suffragette, directed by
Sarah Gavron

3. Suffragette, directed by
Sarah Gavron

A Life of Sacrifice in Suffragette   Get ready to leak from every orifice (maybe not every orifice…). Gavron’s Suffragette is a humbling and very real distillation of what women faced in their battle to better not just their own lives, but the lives of the future female generations and, man oh man, does it hit …

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