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Herald and Age journalist Michael Idato wins prestigious gong at LA Press Club Awards

The culture editor-at-large also came second place in the coveted print journalist of the year category, an award he won last year.

  • by Nell Geraets
Minions are the face of the Despicable Me franchise. What makes them so loveable?
Cinema

Prison riots, boy band covers: A study of the Minions’ most bananas moments

These round yellow creatures have mastered the art of capturing our attention (and our money). Which of their antics won us over the most?

  • by Nell Geraets
FILE - Actor Donald Sutherland appears at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Oct. 13, 2017. Sutherland, the towering Canadian actor whose career spanned “M.A.S.H.” to “The Hunger Games,” has died at 88. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
Vale

Donald Sutherland, star of M*A*S*H and Hunger Games, dead at 88

  • by Will Dunham and Patricia Reaney
(Clockwise from top) Ryan Gosling in Barbie; Kirsten Dunst in Wimbledon; Emma Thompson in Matilda the Musical; Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley in Bend it Like Beckham; Madonna in Die Another Day; and Steve Carell in Foxcatcher.
Streaming

Your Olympics warm-up: You name the sport, we name the movie

  • by Louise Rugendyke
Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne as Rangimai and Guy Pearce as Thomas Munro in The Convert.
★★★★
Review

Once Were Warriors director returns with ‘raw and vicious’ The Convert

  • by Sandra Hall
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Matt Okine in the male fertility episode of Secret Science, an informative, upbeat show designed to fill the gap left by Catalyst.
Opinion
ABC

Comedy panels over smart analysis? That’s not what the ABC needs right now

Panel shows loaded with comedians and repeats of Hard Quiz may be cheap and easy, but they’re hardly a triumph.

  • by Debi Enker
Chris Hemsworth faces the "brutal" surf in near-freezing Arctic waters in Limitless on Channel 9 and 9Now.
2:26

Chris Hemsworth goes surfing in the Norwegian Arctic

Chris Hemsworth faces the "brutal" surf in near-freezing Arctic waters in Limitless on Channel 9 and 9Now.

Chris Hemsworth reflects on his unexpected health mission to brothers Liam and Luke in Limitless on Channel 9 and 9Now.
1:55

Chris Hemsworth reveals why he's 'pushing the boundaries'

Armstrong, Irwin and Emdur.
Analysis
Logies

Tony vs Larry vs Rob: Unpacking the battle for the Gold Logie

  • by Thomas Mitchell
Speaking to Today hosts Karl Stefanovic and Sarah Abo, TV personality Andy Lee opened up about his Gold Logie nomination and engagement to Rebecca Harding.
4:01

Andy Lee speaks on his Gold Logie nomination and engagement to Rebecca Harding

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Visiting cellist Nicolas Altstaedt.
Melbourne live reviews

Rapture and fearlessness collide in this journey across the centuries

  • by Tony Way
John Waters and Daniel MacPherson in a scene from The Woman in Black
★★★★★
Melbourne live reviews

The ghostly theatre classic you should see at least once in your life

  • by Cameron Woodhead, Nadia Bailey and Andrew McClelland
Gaby Seow and Fran Sweeney-Nash in drag as private school debating boys.
★★★★½
Sydney live reviews

This whip-smart satire puts a bomb under faux feminists

  • by Peter McCallum, Joyce Morgan, John Shand, Michael Bailey and Kate Prendergast

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