Culture

Millar with her News Breakfast co-host Michael Rowland.

News & current affairs

‘It is time to say farewell’: Lisa Millar announces exit from ABC Breakfast

Millar has been the co-host of the broadcaster’s breakfast show for about five years after replacing Virginia Trioli in 2019.

by Nell Geraets

Streaming

Nicole Kidman deserves more than an insipid Netflix romcom

by Karl Quinn

There are plenty of new books to read this July.

Literature

Ten great books we’re excited to read in July

by Melanie Kembrey

Cinema

How a first-time Aussie director ended up in charge of latest Beverly Hills Cop

by Thomas Mitchell

Pop culture

What does Michelangelo have to do with Baby Reindeer?

by Jordan Prosser

Movies

Jodie Comer plays Kathy, who is married to Vandal Benny (Austin Butler).

★★★

Review

Forget the macho men, Jodie Comer is the real star of The Bikeriders

Tom Hardy and Austin Butler bring the beef as members of a Chicago bikie gang but Comer supplies the narration and is the main reason to see the film.

by Sandra Hall

Emma Stone and director Yorgos Lanthimos on the set of Kinds of KIndness.

Cinema

‘Rules go out the window’: Why Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons can’t say no to Yorgos Lanthimos

The actors star in the ‘really weird’ Kinds of Kindness, which was made before the Oscar-winning Poor Things was even released.

by Stephanie Bunbury

★★★★

Review

Who needs sex and drugs? This rock ’n’ roll doco still compels

by Sandra Hall

Interview

How Mia Goth became Hollywood’s most gloriously demented scream queen

by Robert Moran

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F sees Eddie Murphy return to his iconic role.

Cinema

How a first-time Aussie director ended up in charge of Beverly Hills Cop

by Thomas Mitchell

TV & radio

TV Guide

Matt Smith and Emma D’Arcy in House of the Dragon season 2

Streaming

‘An expensive and clunky footnote’: House of the Dragon improves, but is it actually good?

The second season of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones prequel has wisely focused more on the dragons, but the story-telling still feels back to front.

by Craig Mathieson

Demi Moore and Andrew McCarthy in the documentary Brats.

Streaming

They were the hottest stars of the ’80s. Now the ‘Brats’ look back in anger

A revealing new documentary looks at how the “Brat Pack” tag shaped the careers of Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez and its other members.