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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese sits down with students for The Assembly.

Real people in unreal situations: why series like The Assembly engage

ABC’s suite of factual programs propel often-marginalised people and subjects into the mainstream.

  • by Debi Enker

Movies

Bill Skarsgård and FKA twigs in a scene from The Crow
★★½
Review

This remake of cult-classic The Crow is surprisingly not a total disaster

The screenwriters of the latest Crow film haven’t retained too much from previous versions of the material beyond the title and the basic premise.

  • by Jake Wilson
Justice Smith (left) as Owen and Brigette Lundy-Paine as Maddy in I Saw the TV Glow.
★★★½
Review

Hot studio A24’s latest hyped horror is short on gore, long on vibes

I Saw the TV Glow is closer in spirit to angsty tone poems such as The Virgin Suicides and Moonlight than to anything meant to be scary.

  • by Jake Wilson
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Field told Peter Farquhar (Timothy Spall), a devoted Christian, that he loved him and had himself added to Farquhar’s will.

Timothy Spall delivers a tour de force in this addictive tragedy

Based on a true story, The Sixth Commandment tells of an inspirational teacher whose life is turned upside down by an unlikely romance.

  • by Ben Pobjie
Anna Samson in Return to Paradise.

Sun, surf and a dead body: The Paraverse heads down under

In Death in Paradise’s Australian spin-off, Anna Samson plays the franchise’s first lead female detective.

  • by Ben Pobjie

Live reviews

Darcy Brown and Chloe Zuel as Elizabeth and Victor Frankenstein.

The spectacular tricks stitching this Frankenstein stage adaptation together

  • by Cameron Woodhead, Andrew Fuhrmann, Gemma Grant, Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen and Tony Way
Maverick Newman and Gabbi Bolt are the perfect pairing in Murder for Two.
★★★★★
Melbourne live reviews

The musical whodunnit so good you’ll want to see it twice

  • by Cameron Woodhead and Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
Julie Lea Goodwin

The puppets are chilling in this opera’s classic ghost story

  • by Kate Prendergast, Chantal Nguyen, Peter McCullum and Harriet Cunningham

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