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Travel shows index pic: (clockwise from left) Joanna Lumley, Conan O’Brien, Stanley Tucci, Eugene Levy, Miriam Margolyes, Martin Clunes and Richard Ayaode.
Film & TV production

Let’s call time on famous actors making travel shows, unless it’s Stanley Tucci

It was said of US troops in Britain during WWII that they were overpaid, overfed, oversexed and over here. Same goes for most celebrities on the tourist trail.

  • by Louise Rugendyke
ABBA
Review

How pop music met its Waterloo in ABBA

  • by Michael Dwyer
Noa (Owen Teague), Nova (Freya Allan) and Raka (Peter Macon) confront a new world in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.
Review

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is less entertaining than a nature doco

  • by Jake Wilson
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★★★★
Sydney live reviews

Miraculous: This play in a tiny theatre shouldn’t work but it does

  • by Chantal Nguyen, Daniel Herborn, John Shand and Harriet Cunningham
There was one major difference between Pink’s and Taylor Swift’s tours. The music industry wants to get rid of it
Live music

There was one major difference between Pink’s and Taylor Swift’s tours. The music industry wants to get rid of it

  • by Thomas Mitchell

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Noa (Owen Teague), Nova (Freya Allan) and Raka (Peter Macon) confront a new world in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.
Review

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is less entertaining than a nature doco

This Aussie-made reboot of Planet of the Apes is not a movie to be taken too seriously.

  • by Jake Wilson
L-R Celeste de Clario Davis (filmmaker), William Gwynne (activist and documentary subject), Lucie McMahon (filmmaker)
Arts

Their housing estate was demolished. Here’s what happened to the final residents

Things Will Be Different tells the story of two of the final residents to vacate their homes ahead of a controversial public housing estate demolition.

  • by Cher Tan
Hinata Hiiragi and Soya Kurokawa in Monster. Photograph:
★★★
Review

A beautiful jigsaw puzzle of a film that will ultimately move you

  • by Jake Wilson
Anya Taylor-Joy attends the Australian premiere of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga in Sydney.
Cinema

How Anya Taylor-Joy took over Australian cinema’s most iconic franchise

  • by Robert Moran
Barry Otto in Revealed: Otto by Otto.
Film Festivals

Gracie Otto began a film about her dad’s one-man show. A diagnosis changed the story

  • by Garry Maddox
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Martha (Jessica Gunning) enters Donny’s life and refuses to leave.
Streaming

Woman named as Baby Reindeer stalker says she is suing Netflix

The woman, 58, has broken her silence after fans of the hit drama claimed to have identified her as the person who inspired the character of Martha.

  • by Ewan Somerville
Eden Golan of Israel performs the song Hurricane at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden.
Eurovision

Thousands protest Eurovision as tensions over Israel escalate

Israel is one of 16 countries vying for 10 slots in this weekend’s final. Singer Eden Golan was booed during dress rehearsal.

  • by Michael Idato
Joel Edgerton, with his Ernest Hemingway beard, at the premiere of Dark Matter in Los Angeles.
Streaming

‘I used to be a snob’: Joel Edgerton on his return to TV in twisty thriller Dark Matter

  • by Louise Rugendyke
Watch the official trailer for Lady Gaga's concert special Gaga Chromatica Ball premiering May 26, only on Stan.
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Official trailer of Lady Gaga's concert special Gaga Chromatica Ball

Our obsession with true crime has jumped the baby reindeer.
The Verdict

The Baby Reindeer aftermath shows we’ve lost the plot on armchair sleuthing

  • by Sarah Thomas

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