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From The Great to Downton Abbey, there are plenty of period dramas to binge after Bridgerton.

Streaming

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

Treasurer Jim Chalmers reading his budget speech.

Opinion

WordPlay

Australia leads the world in the use of this oxymoronic term

by David Astle

Veteran performer Noni Hazlehurst.

Interview

Play School continues to affect everything I do: Noni Hazlehurst

by John Bailey

Rebel Wilson.

Review

Determined, tone-deaf and glib: Rebel Wilson tells her own story

by Stephen Brook

One season wonders

Film & TV production

One and done: 12 great TV shows that truly were one-season wonders

by Craig Mathieson

Movies

Chris Hemsworth almost steals the show as warlord Dementis in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.

★★★★

Review

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

The Apprentice tells the story of how a young Donald Trump started his real estate business in 1970s and 80s New York.

Film Festivals

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

Nicolas Cage in The Surfer.

Australian film

‘Deliciously bonkers’: Aussie film starring Nicolas Cage makes a splash at Cannes

by Garry Maddox

Pop culture

Never mind the fat shamers, Garfield was my kind of guy

by Nova Weetman

Adam Driver and Nathalie Emmanuel in Megalopolis.

Cinema

Masterpiece or disaster? Megalopolis and the art of the self-funded passion project

by Garry Maddox

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TV & radio

TV Guide

Martin Freeman as troubled Liverpool police office Chris Carson.

Film & TV production

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.

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by Ben Pobjie

Western Sydney Wanderers fans put on a passionate display.

Australian TV

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

Artist Stephen Turner shows the incredible interior of the floating egg he's planning to live in on George Clarke's Amazing Spaces. — 2:39

Inside the floating egg one man has designed to live in

Artist Stephen Turner unveils his plans to live and work in a floating egg on George Clarke's Amazing Spaces. — 2:05

Meet the man planning to live in a giant egg

Jean Smart with her 2022 Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

Streaming

Jean Smart on her biggest fear while filming Hacks’ latest, critically acclaimed, season

by Michael Idato

Based on the best-selling novel by Heather Morris, the Stan Original Series The Tattooist of Auschwitz is now streaming.

Based on the best-selling novel by Heather Morris, the Stan Original Series The Tattooist of Auschwitz is now streaming.

The brand new season of the Emmy Award-Winning Series Hacks is now streaming, only on Stan.

Music

Macklemore told the Perth crowd to put their phones away.

Review

‘This is not an opera’: Macklemore tells Perth crowd to stand up and put their phones away

by Sarah Brookes

Sean “Diddy” Combs has posted an apology on Instagram after CCTV footage taken from a hotel security camera video and aired by CNN appears to show him attacking singer Cassie in a Los Angeles hotel hallway in March 2016.

Crime

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs admits beating singer Cassie, says he’s sorry

by Andrew Dalton

Pop superstar Billie Eilish is releasing a new album: Hit Me Hard and Soft.

Exclusive

New music

How Billie Eilish reckoned with fame to create her astonishing new album

by Brodie Lancaster

Air: Jean-Benoit Dunckel, left, and Nicolas Godin.

Live music

This album helped define the ’90s, now the band will play it in full for the first time

by Barry Divola

Judy Garland’s disasterous tour down under began this weekend 60 years ago.

History

‘She looked as though she was dying’: The Australian show that saw the unravelling of a diva

by Patrick Gallagher

“There’s a sort of alien vibe I’m giving away, no matter where I go,” says Kazu Makino, pictured with Simone and Amedeo Pace in 2007.

Rising Festival

An ‘alien vibe’ and no fear of death: this singer is full of surprises

by Michael Dwyer

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Live reviews

Carrie Brownstein (left) and Corin Tucker of US indie rock band Sleater-Kinney at The Forum in Melbourne.

Review

One of the original grrrl bands continues to thrill, three decades on

by Will Cox

Lou Wall in The Bisexual’s Lament.

★★★★★

Sydney live reviews

Overwhelming, mesmerising: This is one of the best hours of Aussie comedy you’ll see

by Daniel Herborn, Peter McCallum and James Jennings

Share house

Melbourne live reviews

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

Celebrity

Matthew Perry, who starred as Chandler Bing in the hit series Friends, died last year aged 54.

Vale

Matthew Perry’s death under criminal investigation

Julie Goodwin in MasterChef Australia: Fans & Favourites

Opinion

Five Minutes with Fitz

The childhood secret that has driven Julie Goodwin, and the recipe everyone should have

by Peter FitzSimons

The Verdict

The Verdict

Whoa-oh, livin’ with grey hair: What Jon Bon Jovi teaches us about ageing

by Sarah Thomas

Stage

Veteran performer Noni Hazlehurst.

Interview

Play School continues to affect everything I do: Noni Hazlehurst

by John Bailey

Lincoln Kirschbaum & Tyran Parke in Nine

Review

How this brilliant musical was produced from scratch in five days

by John Shand

(Left to right) Nadja Kostich, CEO and artistic director of St Martins Theatre, and Michele Lee, playwright.

Stage

Threatened youth theatre company’s tale of two tribes

by Stephen A Russell

From left, Bron Batten, Simon Laherty and Sarah Mainwaring.

Stage

They changed attitudes around the world. Now Back to Back tackles the 9 to 5

by John Bailey

Art & design

Scarlett Johansson says she was ‘shocked’ and ‘angered’ by ChatGPT voice ‘imitation’

AI

Scarlett Johansson said no to voicing Chat GPT. Sounds like they used her anyway

by Thomas Mitchell and Wyatte Grantham-Philips

Opinion

Archibald Prize

In defence of Gina Rinehart, I hate my portrait too

by Antoinette Lattouf

Julie Bates AO, sex worker rights activist and principal of Urban Realists Planning & Health Consultant.

Vivid Sydney

‘Freezing my tits off on Liverpool St’: The unfiltered history of Kings Cross

by Helen Pitt

New installation takes its inspiration from Jeff Koon’s Puppy, Anish Kapoor’s Sky Mirror and Fourth Plinth.

Arts

The $3 million MCA commission ripe for the selfie generation

by Linda Morris

Books

Ann Patchett will discuss her work with Meg Mason.

Sydney Writers' Festival

These are the ten events not to miss at Sydney Writers’ Festival

by Jason Steger

Rebel Wilson.

Review

Determined, tone-deaf and glib: Rebel Wilson tells her own story

by Stephen Brook

Treasurer Jim Chalmers reading his budget speech.

Opinion

WordPlay

Australia leads the world in the use of this oxymoronic term

by David Astle

FILM STILL - BROOKLYN - Saoirse Ronan shines as an Irish immigrant who falls for an Italian-American in 1950s Brooklyn. Opens Nov. 6 Brooklyn - Oscars Nominations - Saoirse Ronan

Literature

Colm Toibin didn’t think he’d write a Brooklyn sequel. So why has he?

by Jason Steger

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