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Foxtel was given $30 million over four years in this year's federal budget to promote underrepresented sports on television.

Foxtel's $30m government handout queried

Delta Goodrem's Apple ad breaches community standards, the ASB has found.

Delta Goodrem's Apple ad banned by Standards Bureau

<i>Australian Ninja Warrior </i>has continued to smash TV ratings.

Ninja Warriors weren't screened for 'drug enhancements'

EXCLUSIVE

Sweet turns sour on MasterChef.

MasterChef's obsession with desserts is starting to curdle

COMMENT
Ben Pobjie

Tom Hardy as Spitfire pilot Farrier in Dunkirk.

Dunkirk is an assault on the senses (but Harry Styles fares OK)

Jake Wilson

Sunday Night has re-examined one of Australia's most baffling crimes, but the boss of arch-rival 60 Minutes isn't happy ...

60 Minutes boss lashes out at arch-rival Sunday Night

Broede Carmody

Netflix shows like Stranger Things have become must-watch viewing for a global audience.

Netflix goes global as non-US subscriptions take over

Michael Idato

Utopia

Politics is the television gift that keeps giving

COMMENT
Melinda Houston

Fionn Whitehead as Tommy in the film.

Distributor blocks 70mm screenings of Dunkirk

Will Smith is set to take on the role of Genie for the upcoming live-action Aladdin film.

Will Smith cast as beloved Disney character

Cardboard costume construction for Box Wars by Liam McLachlan.

Can this eco-warrior save movies from enviro disaster?

Martin Landau arrives at the 24th Night of 100 Stars Oscars Viewing Gala.

Oscar winner Martin Landau dies aged 89

Night Of The Living Dead zombie master George Romero has died, aged 77.

Zombie movies master George Romero, dead at 77

Emily Blunt as Mary Poppins.

A peek inside Emily Blunt's Mary Poppins movie

Dunkirk poster.

Dunkirk: Nolan's war film is an assault on senses

Rating:

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

Satinder Sartaaj as Duleep Singh has some incongruous action-hero moments.

The Black Prince: A glossy but artless period piece

Rating:

Rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars

Poster for the film Paris Can Wait.

Paris Can Wait: Road trip takes same old path

Rating:

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

Poster for the film Descent Into the Maelstrom.

Descent Into the Maelstrom: Not enough why

Rating:

Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars

Baby Driver

Baby Driver: Edgar Wright reinvents the car movie

Rating:

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

Poster for the film The Beguiled. (Pic sourced from the web.)

The Beguiled: A tantalisingly twisted tale

Rating:

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

Spider-Man: Homecoming

Spider-Man: Homecoming: More Spider-Boy

Rating:

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

Poster for First Girl I Loved.

First Girl I Loved: Teen faces reality of coming out

Rating:

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

It Comes At Night

It Comes at Night: Human torment in tight focus

Rating:

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Poster for the film Chicken People.

Chicken People: The power of poultry

Rating:

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

The House

The House: Waste of Ferrell and Poehler's talents

Rating:

Rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars

Lady Macbeth stars Florence Pugh, as Catherine.

Lady Macbeth: Entrapment of a rebellious heroine

Rating:

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

High flyers: Radio Birdman, the influential Sydney six-piece, before they fell to Earth.

The story of how Radio Birdman soared and then crashed

REVIEW
Paul Byrnes

K.D. Lang and her band were let down by poor sound.

Poor sound dampens a cracking first night of K.D. Lang tour

REVIEW
Hannah Francis

The Black Prince (Satinder Sartaaj plays?Duleep Singh, the last Maharajah of the Sikh Empire of Punjab)

The Black Prince is a snail's-pace account of the last prince of Punjab

REVIEW
Jake Wilson

Lorde has given us the best record so far with <i>Melodrama</i>.

The best songs of 2017... so far

Live, which includes, for the first time in years, the original members. The tour will see the band hitting Brisbane, ...

1990s rockers Live touring Australia in November

Korean pop sensation, Psy, can no longer claim to have YouTube's most-watched video with viral sensation <i>Gangnam ...

Gangnam Style no longer YouTube's most-watched video

Lorde performing on Cockatoo Island.

Lorde enchants in pop-up concert on an island

Iggy Azalea performs at the 2017 iHeartRadio Much Music Video Awards at Much Music on Sunday, June 18, 2017, in Toronto, ...

Iggy Azalea announces song with foe Azealia Banks

Melbourne Writers Festival: Thinking for the dark times

The director of the Melbourne Writers Festival, Lisa Dempster.

It might be the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution but the Melbourne Writers Festival isn't entirely dwelling on the past.

JK Rowling says she has an unpublished manuscript

JK Rowling has an unpublished manuscript in her closet.

The rest of us muggles might stock our closets with board games and other junk – JK Rowling's is housing every Harry Potter fan's dream.

UWAP is publishing <i>The Collected Poems of Fay Zwicky</i>.

Much loved Australian poet Fay Zwicky has died aged 83

One of Australia's absolutely essential poets, Fay Zwicky, has died on the weekend her Collected Poems was published.

The Thirst. By Jo Nesbo.

The Thirst: dark and diverting Scandi thriller

Crime Fiction

The Secret Life by Andrew O'Hagan.

The Secret Life: The individual and the net

Essays

The Last Wolf. By Laszlo Krasznahorkai

The Last Wolf: Krasznahorkai's bite-size marvels

Review

Dennis Glover's The Last Man in Europe.

Giving famous authors fresh, fictional lives

Review

A Boy in Winter by Rachel Sieffert.

A Boy in Winter: A painful yet compelling story

Lady of the Realm by Hoa Pham

Lady of the Realm: Buddhism in Vietnam

<i>The End We Start From</i>, by Megan Hunter

The End We Start From: Dystopian tale set in London

Cover of Siracusa by Delia Ephron

Siracusa: New York novel starts off dark, gets darker

Cover of Donald Horne: selected writings

Donald Horne, Selected Writings: Solid collection

Cover of Scribbles in the Margins by Daniel Gray

Scribbles in the Margins: Eternal Delights of Books

The Many Ways of Seeing. By Nick Gleeson.

The Many Ways of Seeing: Moving memoir

Hats. By Clair Hughes.

Hats: A cultural history of hats in the West

I'm home: Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) returns to Dragonstone.

GoT crowned as record audience wages war

In the dark: Kit Harington as Jon Snow in <i>Game of Thrones</i>.

Foxtel customers reeling after Game of Thrones blackout

Arya Stark in Game of Thrones.

GoT premiere episode: Arya Stark's chilling message

SPOILERS

Australian Ninja Warrior is leaping over the competition.

Expect a call for next year's Ninja Warriors soon

Red Symons is in hospital following a fall.

ABC Radio host Red Symons in hospital following fall

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