Fred Pryce

Nov 29, 2023 | overland.org.au | Gregory Marks |Francesca Newton |Fred Pryce

Last year marked the fiftieth anniversary of Wake in Fright, one of Australian cinema’s most unsettling horror movies, as well as one of its most perceptive works of national self-interrogation.

Mar 29, 2023 | overland.org.au | Claire Parnell |Fred Pryce

‘How can you be a champion of rollercoaster tycoon? It’s not a competition!’ is something I get asked on a semi-regular basis. The theme park builder RollerCoaster Tycoon (RCT) was a runaway sensation back at the time of its release, in 1999. The original aim of the game was to complete various scenarios, such as having a certain number of guests in the park or a certain amount of money in the bank at the end of a few years of construction. And yes, you could make the rides blow up.

Mar 26, 2023 | overland.org.au | Claire Parnell |Fred Pryce |Lizzie O'Shea

In 2009, approximately 57,000 books by and about LGBTQIA+ folks disappeared from Amazon’s search results, bestseller lists and sales ranks, a vanishing act that allegedly occurred after an Amazon employee mistakenly marked books classified as queer as adult material.

Mar 15, 2023 | overland.org.au | Daniel Ray |Grace Brooks |Fred Pryce

The internet is abuzz with fast–propagating Lydia Tár memes. She’s a lesbian icon girlboss. She’s flirting with the LA Philharmonic. And, of course, there’s the new film Tár, described by Universal as ‘starring Cate Blanchett as the iconic musician Lydia Tár … widely considered one of the greatest composer/conductors.’ The film relishes in the specifics of her biography—Lydia is an EGOT winner. Lydia is the Berlin Philharmonic’s first female chief conductor.

Mar 13, 2023 | overland.org.au | Grace Brooks |Fred Pryce |Daniel Ray

Ann Turner’s poignant, eerie Cold War coming-of-age film Celia (1989) captures a period in Australian history that is glaringly absent from the national collective memory. Turner was inspired to write and direct her semi-autobiographical film when she discovered that a childhood friend’s father had to leave Victoria in the 1950s because he was a member of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) and blacklisted from employment during Menzies’ Red Scare.