Video games have a rich history that often gets lost in the modern era. Even independent developers today have access to game engines that decades…
There’s this somewhat depressing tendency in television and cinema to be completely okay with graphic violence, drugs, profanity, even sex, but the minute two women…
In the words of Kris Weber, the director of Misterman, there needs to be art that explores mental illness in a powerful, fair, and non-stereotypical…
Homelessness is an ongoing and urgent issue throughout Australia. In Victoria alone, around 22,800 people are experiencing homelessness. It’s the topic at the heart of Lost:5 by…
Blockbuster features two young women who bond while escaping danger. Liza Nifontova (Svetlana Ustinova), discontented TV presenter, is taken hostage by Natasha Tulpanova (Anna Chipovskaya),…
Here at Popculture-y, board games, 80s and 90s video games, Japanese game shows, and circus are some of our favourite things, so it’s a great…
There is something oddly satisfying turning peace-loving hippies and those “wholesome” primitivist communes into dark and sinister things. The Commune, written by Gabriel Bergmoser and…
You find yourself wandering down an unfamiliar street at midnight. The moon is bright and full, and illuminates the scene as if it were day,…
What’s better than star-crossed lovers? Star-crossed lesbian lovers, obviously. Romeo Is Not The Only Fruit takes your rom-com tropes and raises them to the point of…
Melbourne is such a hub of amazing emerging theatre, sometimes it can be hard to know exactly what to go to next. Luckily, Poppy Seed…