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Long before streaming, video stores offered happiness for hire
Youth groups were too holy, malls too expensive and skate parks too unpredictable when I was growing up. Thank goodness I had somewhere else to get my dopamine hit.
- by Simmone Howell
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Sex sells: How Hollywood got steamy again
From The Idea of You to Poor Things, sex is back on the silver screen. What explains the resurgence in eroticism?
- by Nell Geraets
On this bro-heavy set, Jodie Comer runs rings around them all
The Killing Eve actor plays a charming outlaw in her latest film, The Bikeriders.
- by Louise Rugendyke
★★★
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Celine Dion documentary starts slow, on its way to a cruel ending
Who is the legendary singer without her voice? It’s a possibility that echoes throughout the slightly unwieldy I Am: Celine Dion.
- by Brodie Lancaster
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
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
Donald Sutherland, star of M*A*S*H and Hunger Games, dead at 88
The Canadian actor, whose lengthy career spanned from the 1960s into the 2020s, managed to switch effortlessly from character roles to romantic leads.
- by Will Dunham and Patricia Reaney
Your Olympics warm-up: You name the sport, we name the movie
With the Olympics just over a month away, it’s time to improve your sporting knowledge with our Olympic-themed film and TV festival. We’ve (almost) found a movie, TV series or documentary to match all 28 events.
- by Louise Rugendyke
★★★★
Review
Once Were Warriors director returns with ‘raw and vicious’ The Convert
Guy Pearce stars in Lee Tamahori’s story about a lay preacher in New Zealand stuck between two warring Maori tribes.
- by Sandra Hall
★★½
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World domination, sure, but how well does Gru settle into suburbia?
The anti-hero’s family has expanded in Despicable Me 4, and they enter a form of witness protection.
- by Jake Wilson
His crime shocked France. This film reveals why his wife stayed silent
A Silence unpacks the complicity that allowed a celebrated lawyer to commit horrific acts. For its director, it was also a reckoning.
- by Stephanie Bunbury