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Hilary Mantel says she has come to admire Thomas Cromwell while recognising he was a ruthless, practical politician.
Literature

Mantel says her weighty new novel has all 'the big important things'

Sex, power, politics, forgery and lies: Eight years later, Hilary Mantel finishes 863 pages in her acclaimed trilogy about Henry VIII's fixer, Thomas Cromwell.

  • by Jane Wheatley
Disney, the company behind the animated film Frozen 2, has backed calls to overhaul Australia's PG classification.
Child safety

'Who's the target audience?': Push to overhaul PG classification

  • by Broede Carmody
Queen Sono (Pearl Thusi), a glamorous and deadly agent for a mysterious South African spy agency.
Streaming

Netflix's first African original series will challenge your preconceptions

  • by Brad Newsome
Emily Kame Kngwarreye's Summer Celebration. 
Indigenous art

Acclaimed Indigenous artist celebrated in top New York show

  • by Kerrie O'Brien
David Smith, secretary to the governor-general, announces that Sir John Kerr has dismissed the Whitlam government on November 11, 1975.
Podcasts

A podcast to get hooked on re-examines one of our greatest political scandals

  • by Peter Wells

Movies

Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Downhill.
Opinion
Review

Following the original, it's all Downhill

Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus play a couple whose marriage falls apart during a ski trip, in a cringe comedy that can't match its European source material.

  • by Jake Wilson
Josh McConville (left) stars as a former soldier with PTSD in Escape and Evasion. 
Review

A strong Josh McConville gives war drama Escape and Evasion its punch

He may be big and bearish, but Josh McConville finds the patterns of guilt warping a soldier’s sense of self with a delicacy that keeps you with him every step of the way.

  • by Sandra Hall
Bill Camp (left) as Wilbur Tennant and Mark Ruffalo (right) as Robert Bilott in in Dark Waters.
Review

Mark Ruffalo's tenacity stops legal thriller Dark Waters from sinking

  • by Sandra Hall
Fugitive from justice: Polish born film director Roman Polanski in 2011.
Analysis
Film awards

When Roman Polanski wins a directing award, does the #MeToo movement lose?

  • by Michael Phillips
Pixar's Onward, due to release at the end of March.
Disney

Pixar breaks new ground with animated fantasy-story Onward

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TV & radio

Michael Thomas Grant as Leif, Jane Levy as Zoey and Kapil Talkwalker as Tobin.
Pop culture

Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist goes deeper than TV musical for creator

What cannot be said in words can sometimes be said in song, says Austin Winsberg, the creator of Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist.

  • by Michael Idato
The way we were ... the cast of Modern Family.
Pop culture

For the creators of Modern Family, goodbye is the hardest thing to say

After 11 seasons the hit comedy Modern Family is bowing out but, for its cast, saying goodbye is a bittersweet task.

  • by Michael Idato
David Speers is the new presenter of the ABC's Insiders.
News & current affairs

Green Guide letters: TV and radio audiences have their say

Shaun Evans (right) plays the young detective Morse, pictured with Roger Allam as DCI Fred Thursday, in the masterful prequel Endeavour.
Review

The hunt for a detective's name inspires one of TV's best series

  • by Scott Murray
Survivor host Jeff Probst.
TV & radio

What's on TV: Thursday, March 12

  • by Melinda Houston
RuPauls

Stream, queens! The brand new season of RuPaul's Drag Race has officially landed, only on Stan.

Better call Saul

Better Call Saul, the critically acclaimed prequel to Breaking Bad, is back with a brand new season - now streaming, only on Stan

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Celebrity

Curtis Stone.
Celebrity

Curtis Stone: 'As a chef, I feel my mum’s work influences what I do'

  • by Jane Rocca
Harvey Weinstein arrives at court.
MeToo movement

The #MeToo movement is much bigger than Harvey Weinstein's verdict

  • by Rebecca Greenfield
How big is Sir Elton's tour? This big.
Private Sydney

Elton’s Australian game, set and match nearly over

  • by Helen Pitt

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