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Already binged Bridgerton? Here are seven other great period dramas to watch
If you’ve worked your way through Netflix’s juicy drama, get your fill of corsets, cravats and torrid love affairs with these other period drama shows.
- by Nell Geraets
Movies
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Chris Hemsworth steals the show in this ambitious addition to Mad Max saga
George Miller’s action sequences in Furiosa, the most expensive Australian film ever, are as exhilarating as ever.
- by Jake Wilson
New Donald Trump biopic includes controversial rape scene
The film, titled The Apprentice, charts the former president’s rise to wealth and power in the 1970s and 80s.
- by Craig Simpson
TV & radio
How Martin Freeman went from The Office to an intense, troubled cop
Before playing the morally compromised Chris Carson in The Responder – a show full of violence, trauma and moral ambiguity – Freeman was an international star.
- by Ben Pobjie
The dark side of Australian football’s ‘great sporting fairytale’
Featuring Craig Foster and superfan Ian “Dicko” Dickson, Came from Nowhere tracks the rise of divisive A-League club Western Sydney Wanderers.
- by Bridget McManus
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How Billie Eilish reckoned with fame to create her astonishing new album
- by Brodie Lancaster
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Overwhelming, mesmerising: This is one of the best hours of Aussie comedy you’ll see
- by Daniel Herborn, Peter McCallum and James Jennings
An amusing take on the perils of living in a share house - in your 30s
- by Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, Barney Zwartz, Cameron Woodhead, Jessica Nicholas, Tony Way and Vyshnavee Wijekumar
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Art & design
Scarlett Johansson said no to voicing Chat GPT. Sounds like they used her anyway
- by Thomas Mitchell and Wyatte Grantham-Philips