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The Bachelor's Matthew "Matty J" Johnson with his mum Ellie Johnson.

The untold story behind The Bachelor's search for love

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Powderfinger played an impromptu reunion set at Splendour in the Grass.

Surprise Powderfinger reunion electrifies crowd at Splendour

Erin Molan fell off her chair, swore and spilled water on herself during the 6pm bulletin.

Erin Molan falls off chair and swears during Nine News bulletin

Andy Serkis says performance capture is one of the greatest actors' tools of the 21st century: 'It allows us the ability ...

Serkis brings life to creatures great and small

Craig Mathieson

Del Kathryn Barton's 2013 Archibald Prize-winning portrait of Hugo Weaving was gifted to the actor.

The Archibald Prize's 15 minutes of fame

Linda Morris

Design wonder, Sydney Opera House, woos visiting members of the World Design Organisation.

The winner might be ... Sydney, imperfect design capital of world

Linda Morris

Singer and writer Angie Hart at lunch at Hutong Dumpling Bar, Melbourne.

The darkness behind Frente singer's Kelly Street smile

Karl Quinn

Hi-5 (left top to right): Shay, Joe, Bailey, Lachie and Courtney.

TV bosses call for end to children's content

Karl Quinn

Scene from Hamza Mujtaba's drone film Slovenia From Above.

A festival just for drone films

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

How Birdman soared and then crashed

Stefanie Martini, centre, as Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect 1973.

Helen Mirren's Prime Suspect gets a worthy origin story

Tom Hardy as Spitfire pilot Farrier in Dunkirk.

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

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

Snail's-pace account of the last prince of Punjab

Diane Lane and Arnaud Viard meander their way through Paris Can Wait.

Paris Can Wait a road trip littered with cliches

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

Queens of the Stone Age.

Queens Of the Stone Age unleash on stage ahead of new album

REVIEW
Martin Boulton

Bell Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice doesn't skimp on the bitterness.

Merchant of Venice a strong show after Bell Shakespeare bad patch

REVIEW
Cameron Woodhead

Katsushika Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa (detail).

How Japanese artist Hokusai swept the world

Kylie Northover

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

Delta Goodrem's Apple ad banned by Standards Bureau

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

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

Eddie McGuire is returning to The Footy Show, Craig Hutchison is leaving.

Footy show in crisis: Hutchison out, McGuire in

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Sam Newman on the <i>Footy Show</i>.

'Complete sad sack': Newman's strange Footy Show turn

A new project from the Game of Thrones creators has triggered an online uproar.

Game of Thrones creators criticised over slavery drama

The former Bachelorette star will make her debut on Home and Away later this year.

Sam Frost hits back at Home and Away critics

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

Foxtel's $30 million government handout questioned

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