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Netflix favourite Sense8 to get feature length finale

Netflix favourite Sense8 to get feature length finale

Sci-fi series Sense8 is set to return to our screens for a special finale following it’s shock cancellation last year. The Wachowski created show followed the lives of eight mentally-connected individuals across the world, and was celebrated for its representation of LGBT characters on screen. The @sense8 finale arrives June 8! Tell your cluster. pic.twitter.com/FlDwnKzOYW — […]

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Review | Elixir is a fail-safe cure for boredom

Review | Elixir is a fail-safe cure for boredom

Elixir | West Australian Spiegeltent | til Feb 25th | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★  Sci-fi, circus and comedy collide in this brilliant Fringe World show from the boys at Head First Acrobats. Opening with one of the stars gnawing on a severed limb, it’s clear from the outset this isn’t your typical circus show. A zombie outbreak […]

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Shane Adamczak is alone in space in the sci-fi comedy STASIS

Shane Adamczak is alone in space in the sci-fi comedy STASIS

Shane Adamczak is back in Perth after having recently come off his Canadian Fringe tour with his show The Ballad of Frank Allen which won the Just Laugh comedy award. This time he brings up STASIS; his sci-fi vision and the first original solo show Adamczak has performed in 7 years. I sat down with […]

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Anthony Rapp on playing Star Trek’s first fully fledged gay character

Anthony Rapp on playing Star Trek’s first fully fledged gay character

Trekkies and science fiction fans alike are buzzing with excitement as Star Trek’s latest instalment draws nearer to its premiere. LGBT+ fans of the series will finally see themselves boldly go where no-one has gone before, as not one but two queer characters join the cast of Star Trek: Discovery, and a gay relationship is given in-depth […]

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Queer-centric sci-fi Sense8 will not return for third season

Queer-centric sci-fi Sense8 will not return for third season

Netflix has confirmed today that cult favourite Sense8 will not be renewed for a third season, causing a massive outcry from fans of the Wachowski sibling (The Matrix) sci-fi. The series, which has been celebrated for its representation of LGBTIQ characters, joins Baz Luhrmann’s The Get Down as Netflix makes sweeping cuts to its less popular original programming. The […]

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Review | Netflix’s Sense8 is the queer TV we need

Review | Netflix’s Sense8 is the queer TV we need

If you want to see queer themed television that captures moments of exquisite sadness, heart breaking beauty, with heart pounding action and loin tingling sexuality Season 2 of Sense8 delivers this wrapped in the dazzling signature style the of the Wachowskis, the transgender siblings that brought The Matrix trilogy to life. With a diverse ensemble […]

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Second out actor will head to the final frontier in Star Trek Discovery

Second out actor will head to the final frontier in Star Trek Discovery

The Star Trek series, known for pioneering diversity on television, is set to stay the course casting its second openly gay actor in the upcoming series. Maulik Pancholy will join out actor Anthony Rapp on the crew of the Discovery in the soon-to-be-released series of the same name. Pancholy, better known as Jack Donaghy’s doting assistant […]

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Calls to boycott Supanova festival over founder’s comments

Calls to boycott Supanova festival over founder’s comments

The Supanova pop culture festival changed gears into ‘damage control mode’ today after it was revealed that the festival’s founder was an opponent of the Safe Schools Coalition anti-bullying program. Supanova founder Daniel Zachariou shared a petition on his personal Facebook account asking friends to sign a petition opposing the Safe Schools Coalition program. The […]

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Bibliophile: Astra Somnia

Astra Somnia by Clinton John Tommy’s mother Katherine is 86 and as her light fades, she instructs her son to bring her journal to the hospital. She had started to write it in 1939 when she was a teenager, after she had watched the spirit of her Uncle Justin escape from his coffin. Still struggling […]

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