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The Death of Stalin is absurd but it's '50 per cent true', says Armando Iannucci
He's the master of weaving fiction and fact, and the new movie from the creator of Veep and The Thick of It is his most ambitious blend yet.
- by Karl Quinn
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Tim Minchin: 'I need to remind myself what my job is' after Hollywood
Still smarting from his Hollywood dream-turned-nightmare, Tim Minchin takes the stage on Saturday for his first Australian concert in three years.
- by Karl Quinn
Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez reveals #MeToo moment: 'It could have gone either way for me'
Jennifer Lopez has revealed her own #MeToo moment, saying a director once asked her to undress in front of him.
- by Robert Moran
Director Aki Kaurismaki on The Other Side of Hope (and why he doesn't have much)
When he was younger and working on as many as four films in a year, Aki Kaurismaki spent any free time he was able to gouge out of endless writing, shooting and editing in Helsinki's bars. Even by Finnish standards, he was and is a prodigious drinker.
- by Stephanie Bunbury
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Human Flow review: Ai Weiwei places the viewer beside refugees cast adrift
Rated M, 140 minutes
- by Sandra Hall
Mary Magdalene's #metoo moment
"It just couldn't be any more Shakespearean," Rooney Mara muses. She plays the title role in Garth Davis' Mary Magdalene, which pieces together what is known of the life of the woman Christ arguably regarded as his most important disciple. The one thing most people "know" about Mary is she was a prostitute, but there is no evidence for this in the Bible.
- by Stephanie Bunbury
Australian film
Queensland a day away from losing Dora as federal talks stall
The sunshine state has already lost two other major overseas productions, meaning $300 million has gone down the drain.
- by Toby Crockford
Tomb Raider review: Heroine for a new generation deserves more than timid reboot
If the entire exotic adventure genre is built on an irresponsibility that no longer passes muster, why bother with a new Tomb Raider at all?
- by Jake Wilson
Actor Eddie Redmayne mourns wit and 'beautiful mind' of Stephen Hawking
Portraying physicist Stephen Hawking in the 2014 biopic The Theory of Everything earned Eddie Redmayne an Oscar, and it also fostered a mutual respect between the actor and renowned thinker, who died on Wednesday at age 76.
Plague proportions or point of extinction? Doco has kangaroos in the crosshairs
It's our national symbol but the place of the kangaroo in the national psyche is complicated, and responses extreme.
- by Karl Quinn
Kangaroo, A Love-Hate Story review: Bloody, awful spectacle dulls message
As the song says, Australians love football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars, but the Holden is gone and the 'roo population is heading the same way, according to this agit-prop documentary about the way we mistreat our most famous national symbol.
- by Paul Byrnes