Culture

Brat finds the now 31-year-old musing on fame, anxiety, insecurity and motherhood.

Review

Charli XCX’s late-night masterpiece Brat is her best album yet

Texturally brash and genuinely affecting, the pop iconoclast’s new album is a must-hear.

by Jules LeFevre

Indie horrors are holding their own while other large-scale films are struggling.

Cinema

It’s been a terrible year for cinema, but one genre is holding strong

by Nell Geraets

Dakota Fanning stars as Mina, who becomes lost in the woods, where she meets Madeline (Olwen Fouere).

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Review

The Watchers is proof Ishana Night Shyamalan has her father’s talent

by Sandra Hall

Streaming

This film could have fixed Hollywood’s box office crisis. Here’s why it won’t

by Nell Geraets

Sophie Rundle as police officer Jo Marshall in After The Flood.

Film & TV production

Once taboo on TV, the baby bump has become an unreal stereotype

by Debi Enker

Movies

Cinema

It’s been a terrible year for cinema, but one genre is holding strong

Why are these smaller-scale movies attracting decent audiences while major studio films flop?

by Nell Geraets

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Review

The Watchers is proof Ishana Night Shyamalan has her father’s talent

Starring Dakota Fanning, this supernatural horror shows Ishana has inherited a taste for tinkering with the unseen and incomprehensible.

by Sandra Hall

Streaming

This film could have fixed Hollywood’s box office crisis. Here’s why it won’t

by Nell Geraets

Under Paris is a surprisingly thrilling, thought-provoking new shark film.

Streaming

Fifty years after Jaws we finally have a shark movie that’s almost as good

by Nell Geraets

Will Smith (left) and Martin Lawrence are back to bicker their way through Bad Boys: Ride or Die.

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Review

Will Smith is back – and yes, Bad Boys jokes about that slap

by Jake Wilson

TV & radio

TV Guide

Bride upset as mother loves dress she 'hates'

Summer's mother has picked out a wedding dress for her daughter, but when Summer tries it on she "hates" it on Say Yes To The Dress: Lancashire.

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Bride's mother chooses 'frumpy' dress for daughter

Bride-to-be Summer is searching for a wedding dress with her mother, but they have very different tastes on Say Yes To The Dress: Lancashire.

1 hour ago

Kathryn Hahn as Clare in Tiny Beautiful Things.

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Streaming

Kathryn Hahn’s thrilling performance in Tiny Beautiful Things will have you in tears

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by Craig Mathieson

Film & TV production

Once taboo on TV, the baby bump has become an unreal stereotype

by Debi Enker

Jake Gyllenhaal as Rusty Sabich in the TV series Presumed Innocent.

Review

Jake Gyllenhaal is made to squirm in every frame of Presumed Innocent

by Karl Quinn

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

Review

Charli XCX’s late-night masterpiece Brat is her best album yet

by Jules LeFevre

The remarkable footage was captured by journalist Gil Wahlquist in 1964.

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Performing arts

Unseen for 60 years: Lost Beatles tape unearthed at secondhand market

by Michael Dwyer

Opinion

Review

Settle down, Swifties – the Beatles are still the biggest thing to hit Australia

by Tom Compagnoni

Karl Jenkins: “It is meant to be a universal message.′

Performing arts

This wildly popular music is a source of pride and sadness

by Nick Galvin

Chart hits, festival slots, a fashion line, and finally a debut album – South Korean DJ Peggy Gou is a phenomenon.

Review

This superstar DJ looks to go supernova with her strategic but edgy debut

by Annabel Ross

Indigenous art

Rapper at centre of ‘white devil’ school song controversy addresses furore

by Meg Watson

Live reviews

Melbourne live reviews

It took spending the night to truly fall in love with Arts Centre Melbourne

by Cameron Woodhead and Vyshnavee Wijekumar

★★★★★

Melbourne live reviews

One of Melbourne’s most underrated bands return home and blow off the roof

by Will Cox, Andrew Fuhrmann and Brodie Lancaster

David Adrian Freeland jnr and Mario Gonzalez performed the two leading roles on opening night.

★★★★

Sydney live reviews

Cameraman and a random seagull are the stars of this love letter to the Opera House

by Chantal Nguyen, Bernard Zuel and Peter McCallum

Celebrity

North West is the epitome of “nepo baby”. It doesn’t seem to bother her in the slightest.

The Verdict

North West loves being a nepo baby. Others should too

by Nell Geraets

Pop culture

The best books, TV, music and films of 2024 so far - and what’s to come

by Melanie Kembrey and Robert Moran

Nicki Minaj was reportedly arrested in Amsterdam.

Drugs

‘He doesn’t believe you’: Nicki Minaj reportedly arrested for possessing drugs in Amsterdam

by Avi Selk

Stage

Francis Greenslade’s ambitious play, The Platypus, will debut at Theatre Works.

Arts

How rejection and three days in a hotel room led to a creative breakthrough

by Stephen A Russell

The Light Inside has been created with Bangarra alumna Deborah Brown of the Waikad Clan and Meriam People.

Performing arts

Bangarra prepares to cross the ditch with bold new project

by Chantal Nguyen

Julia Louis-Dreyfus in New York last week.

Jerry Seinfeld

Julia Louis-Dreyfus hits back at Seinfeld’s political correctness remarks

by Nell Geraets

The cast of the West End production of Hadestown.

Exclusive

Performing arts

The biggest musical you’ve never heard of is finally coming to Sydney

by Nick Galvin

Art & design

Jane Watters director of the S.H. Ervine gallery in the exhibition salon des refuses,

Archibald Prize

Who doesn’t love leftovers? The ‘reject’ show artists want to be in

by Nick Galvin

The refurbished Fairlie apartment was designed by Kennedy Nolan.

Commercial real estate

Australia’s most expensive apartment in the 1960s has had a luxurious facelift

by Stephen Crafti

Opinion

Archibald Prize

Archibald winner’s style perfectly matched to subject Tim Winton

by John McDonald

Laura Jones with her portrait of Tim Winton.

Archibald Prize

As it happened: Laura Jones wins Archibald Prize with portrait of author Tim Winton

by Helen Pitt and Nick Galvin

Books

The story of Australian banker Ian Shepherd, who invented a system for the trading of derivatives, is as much about finance as it is about the very nature of ideas.

Review

The man who fought for a safer and fairer financial future

by Pat Sheil

David Lindenmayer with a mountain brushtail possum in 2004.

Review

Myths, spin and outright lies: the truth behind the logging industry

by Kurt Johnson

Review

This new novel imagines the secret history of Lady Macbeth

by Cameron Woodhead and Steven Carroll

How do we differentiate between e-bikes and bikes? Let’s cycle through the options.

WAtoday

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