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NewsFarewelling 'Succession', Then Returning to Australian Cinema in a Homegrown Sci-Fi Thriller: Ashley Zukerman Chats 'In Vitro'
"I feel very fortunate because of what I've been able to do overseas, I can now come back and work on these great things, and help these great things get up."
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NewsHow Being Inspired by Greta Gerwig on 'Little Women' Led to the London Stage: Eliza Scanlen Talks NT Live's 'The Importance of Being Earnest'
Thanks to National Theatre's love of recording its productions and beaming them around the world, Australian audiences can see the 'Sharp Objects' and 'Babyteeth' star's UK theatre debut in cinemas.
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NewsSatirising and Celebrating Hollywood All at Once: Chatting Showbiz Comedies with Ike Barinholtz, Kathryn Hahn and 'The Studio' Crew
Art imitates life — and parodies it — in Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's ace new Apple TV+ series, which perfects the balance between skewering and loving the film industry.
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NewsFinn Wolfhard's New Slasher, Nude 'Austin Powers', a Lynne Ramsay Retrospective: Fantastic Film Festival Australia's 2025 Lineup Is Here
In its fifth year, this celebration of bold cinema — and cult favourites present and future — is screening 17 brand-new features and ten must-see classics.
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NewsBusselton Is Hosting Triple J's Spacey Jane-, LUUDE-, Ruby Fields- and 3%-Led One Night Stand for 2025
This year, the event is heading to Western Australia, taking place in Barnard Park in the seaside spot in May.
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NewsIf You're Keen to Get Excited About an 'Avengers' Movie Again, Marvel Has Announced the Packed Cast for 'Doomsday'
While Robert Downey Jr's return to the MCU was revealed in 2024, that's just the beginning — there's now a whole heap of familiar faces joining him
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NewsTen 2025 Oscar-Winning Films That You Can and Should Watch Immediately
Your newly Oscars-approved viewing list includes films about determined architects, whirlwind romances, catty cardinals, sandworms and more.
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NewsPredicting the Oscars: Who Should, Could and Will Win at the 2025 Academy Awards
From 'Anora' and 'A Real Pain' to 'I'm Still Here' and 'No Other Land', here's what's likely to emerge victorious at the 2025 Oscars.
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NewsHere's Where You Can Watch 33 of 2025's Oscar-Nominated Movies in Australia Right Now
Massive musicals, monumental dramas, stunning animated gems, heartbreaking documentaries, two Timothée Chalamet movies: they're all Oscar contenders, and you can watch them all.
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NewsTwenty-Five Exceptional Films by Indigenous Australian Filmmakers That You Can Stream Right Now
Celebrate Australia's First Nations filmmakers with these horror standouts, coming-of-age gems, Top End rom-coms, outback noirs, Aussie westerns and expressive dance flicks.
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NewsEleven 2025 Golden Globe-Winning Films and TV Shows That You Can (and Should) Watch Right Now
Make a cinema or a couch date with a freshly minted Golden Globe-winner — here's what you can watch right away, and where.
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NewsTwenty-Five Movies That You Can Stream This Christmas No Matter How You Feel About the Festive Season
Pour a glass of eggnog, find your comfiest spot on the couch, then enjoy everything from 'The Holdovers' and 'Die Hard' to 'Last Christmas' and 'Eyes Wide Shut'.
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NewsNine 2024 Emmy-Winning TV Shows That You Should Watch Immediately
Your new must-watch list of Emmy-winners includes 'Baby Reindeer' and its has-to-be-seen-to-be-believed tale, the history-making 'Shōgun' and, yes, 'The Bear'.
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NewsThe Six Best Ways to Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival in Melbourne
Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival (Moon Festival) in Melbourne by hitting up cultural performances, noshing on mooncakes, and gathering together a big group mates for a yum cha feed.
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NewsNine New Movies You Can Watch Right Now That Have Been Fast-Tracked From Cinemas to Streaming
Get comfy on the couch with Austin Butler's latest brooding role, serial-killer chiller 'Longlegs' and the animated antics of 'Inside Out 2'.
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NewsTwelve Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream This Month
Spend your couch time watching Rashida Jones navigate a sci-fi mystery in Japan, Nicolas Cage face a post-apocalyptic future and a gripping Australian romance-scam thriller.
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NewsLaughs Incoming: Melbourne International Comedy Festival Is Back for 2025 with 1000-Plus Performers and 690 Shows
For a month each year, Melbourne becomes a haven for giggles, chuckles and hilarity — and that time for 2025 is now.
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Triple J's One Night Stand Is Returning in 2025 with Spacey Jane, LUUDE and Ruby Fields on the Lineup
You now know the date and who'll be taking to the stage, but which Australian town is playing host is still to be announced.
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News"I Came with You to Be Part of Something": 'Andor' Season Two Is on the Path to Rebellion in Its New Trailer
Ben Mendelsohn joins the cast of this 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' prequel series' 12-episode final season.
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NewsAustralia's Multi-Sensory Digital Art Gallery The Lume Has Brought Forward Its Closing Date and Will Now Shut in June 2025
You've only got a couple more months to visit this Melbourne venue, which is saying goodbye when its current van Gogh exhibition ends.
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NewsNow Open: 'Frida Kahlo: In Her Own Image' Has Arrived Down Under to Explore the Iconic Artist Through Her Personal Belongings
Exclusive to Bendigo Art Gallery, this showcase features items that have never been seen before in Australia, including clothing, makeup and accessories.
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NewsApple TV+ Is Clocking Back in at Lumon Industries: 'Severance' Has Been Renewed for Season Three
Bring on the choreography and merriment, and break out the waffle parties — after a phenomenal second season, this mindbending hit will return.
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ShopCounterweight Vinyl & Espresso
32 Chambers Street, Footscray
Browse secondhand vinyl — the specialty is classic dance and bass — or sit down for a coffee and pastry.
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NewsBuzzing Through the Highs, Hopes and Heartbreaks of Caring for Hollywood's Hummingbirds: Sally Aitken Talks 'Every Little Thing'
After stepping through The Wiggles' story in her previous film, this Australian documentarian flew into a portrait of Terry Masear's work with her Los Angeles hotline for hummingbirds.
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NewsOne-Upping Every Other Robert De Niro Mobster Movie by Getting Him Doing Double Duty: Barry Levinson Chats 'The Alto Knights'
"There's a spontaneity about them that it feels like these two guys are talking to one another, and they're making up things as they go along."
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NewsThe NGV Is Keeping Its Spectacular Yayoi Kusama Exhibition Open Late for Its Last Weeks, Including Till Midnight Over Easter
If you haven't yet made a date with Australia's largest-ever retrospective dedicated to the Japanese artist at Melbourne's NGV International, you now have more chances to do so.
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NewsLiterature Lovers, Rejoice: Melbourne Writers Festival's Four-Day 2025 Lineup Is Filled with Highlights
Irish authors Marian Keyes and Colm Tóibín, Booker Prize-winner Samantha Harvey and 'The Ministry of Time' scribe Kaliane Bradley are among the names hitting up MWF this year.
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NewsBringing Johnny Spitieri Back to the Gold Coast Two Decades After 'Gettin' Square': David Wenham and Jonathan Teplitzky Talk 'Spit'
"Nearly every day of my life, I have somebody approach me — and out of all the characters that I've played, that's the one that most of them want to talk about."
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NewsIn the Full Trailer for 'The Handmaid's Tale' Season Six, "Now It's Time for Them to Be Afraid of Us"
"This is the beginning of the end" — ideally for Gilead, but also for the award-winning TV series based on Margaret Atwood's acclaimed book.
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EventMakers and Shakers Market
Sat, 5 Apr - Sun, 6 Apr 2025
Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton
Explore more than 175 stalls — all peddling exclusively Australian-made products — at the creative market's biggest edition yet.
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Fantastic Film Festival Australia
Thu, 24 Apr - Thu, 15 May 2025
Select cinemas in Melbourne, Various locations
Finn Wolfhard's new slasher flick, nude 'Austin Powers', a Lynne Ramsay retrospective: 2025's FFFA has them all.
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Event'Twilight' Saga Overnight Marathon
Sat, 26 Apr, 2025
Cinema Nova, Carlton
Relive the entire vampire romance saga over one epic night, featuring all five films — and a complimentary cereal bar breakfast.
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EventMelbourne International Comedy Festival
Wed, 26 Mar - Sun, 20 Apr 2025
Various Melbourne venues, Melbourne
Laughs incoming: MICF is back for 2025 with 1000-plus performers and 690 shows on 182 stages in 133 venues.
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EventThe Offspring: Supercharged Worldwide in '25 Tour
Wed, 7 May - Thu, 8 May 2025
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
Come out and play: The Offspring's latest arena tour with Simple Plan is hitting Australia, including Melbourne, in 2025.
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EventBloc Party: Australian Tour 2025
Sun, 3 Aug, 2025
John Cain Arena, Melbourne
On Bloc Party's latest trip to Australia, they're playing 'Silent Alarm' in full and celebrating the band's 20th anniversary.
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EventVan Gogh High Tea
Sat, 1 Mar - Sun, 1 Jun 2025
TWR, Southbank
The Crown's cocktail bar has joined forces with THE LUME art gallery to transform the Dutch painters' works into a dreamy feast.
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EventSex Pistols Featuring Frank Carter: Australian Tour 2025
Sat, 5 Apr, 2025
Festival Hall Melbourne, West Melbourne
Anarchy in Australia: the iconic punk-rock band are touring Down Under for the first time in almost 30 years.
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EventLulie Tavern's Tenth Anniversary
Mon, 31 Mar - Sun, 6 Apr 2025
Lulie Tavern, Abbotsford
Abbotsford's go-to rock 'n' roll venue is turning ten – and it's celebrating with a week-long party, including an evening with BRICO.
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EventRISING Melbourne
Wed, 4 Jun - Sun, 15 Jun 2025
Various Melbourne locations, Melbourne
A free installation by a TeamLab alum, exclusive Suki Waterhouse gigs, 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch', the return of SHOUSE's 'Communitas': they're all on the lineup in Melbourne.
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NewsWhether You're Keen to Watch 'The Last of Us', 'Barbie' or Classic Movies, Max Has Dropped More Details About Its Australian Launch
Film fans, get excited — Warner Bros' high-profile movies will get fast-tracked to the platform, while classic pictures will be available in the TCM hub.
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News'Happy Gilmore 2' Will Tap, Tap, Tap Its Way Into Your Streaming Queue This Winter — and It Has a New Teaser Trailer
Adam Sandler is back on the green almost three decades after the original golfing comedy became one of his best-known films.
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NewsJacob Elordi Navigates Love and War in the Trailer for Australian Miniseries 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North'
Also starring Ciarán Hinds, Odessa Young, Olivia DeJonge and Thomas Weatherall, the five-part series hits Prime Video in April 2025.
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NewsMelbourne's Malthouse Theatre Is Bringing 'The Birds' and Its Iconic Horror Tale to the Stage From the Page and Screen
To experience the story's full terrors — and every swoop and squawk — theatre attendees will don headphones at this world-premiere one-woman production that follows in Alfred Hitchcock's footsteps.
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NewsIt's Happening Again: The First Trailer for 'Freakier Friday' Promises Another Spell of Body-Swapping Chaos
Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan are back to navigate another identity crisis, with this 22-years-later sequel hitting cinemas in August 2025.
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NewsBelieving in 'Ted Lasso' Season Four Has Paid Off: Apple TV+'s Heartwarming Hit Comedy Is Officially Returning
This is the news that everyone has been waiting for since 2023, and that the world needs right now — and yes, Jason Sudeikis is back, too.
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NewsBuilding a Blisteringly Raw Character Study Through Investigation and Improvisation: Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste Chat 'Hard Truths'
It was accurate of 1996's 'Secrets & Lies' and it's the same again now — when this filmmaker and actor work together, stunning cinema results.
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NewsWhen a Twisty and Witty Spy Thriller Is Also a Smart and Sexy Relationship Drama: Michael Fassbender and Marisa Abela Talk 'Black Bag'
Keeping secrets, slinging barbs, and working through personal and professional crises are all a part of Steven Soderbergh's supremely entertaining espionage film.
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NewsSurrendering to TV's Wildest Dance with the Wilderness, Trauma and Vulnerability: Simone Kessell Chats 'Yellowjackets'
"I just love playing Lottie. So unpredictable. And she's so vital. And you don't know whether she's going to analyse you or laugh at you — or laugh with you."
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NewsJoseph Kosinski on the Full 'F1' Trailer: How the 'Top Gun: Maverick' Director Teamed Up with Lewis Hamilton to Capture Formula 1's Intensity
What does it take to make "the most-authentic racing film you will ever experience in a cinema"? Kosinski (and Hamilton) told us all about it.
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NewsDream a Little Dream: 'Black Mirror' Season Seven Arrives in April and Just Dropped a Suitably Reality-Bending Trailer
Take a peek at the 'USS Callister' sequel episode — and another instalment that seems to have links to 'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch'.
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NewsBloc Party Are Touring Down Under in 2025 to Play 'Silent Alarm' in Full and Celebrate the Band's 20th Anniversary
'Banquet', 'Helicopter', 'This Modern Love', 'Like Eating Glass': they'll all be on the setlist on this seven-city tour.
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NewsWith 200-Plus Events and More Than 140 Guests, 2025's Sydney Writers' Festival Program Is Absolutely Packed
2024 Booker Prize-winner Samantha Harvey, 'Brooklyn' author Colm Tóibín, Australian 'Big Little Lies' wordsmith Liane Moriarty: they're all on the lineup.
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NewsHow Starring in 'Snowtown' Helped Lead to Roles in Not One But Two Bong Joon-ho Films: Daniel Henshall Talks 'Mickey 17'
Before he was tasked with playing the righthand man to a wannabe dictator — and before featuring in 'Okja', too — the Australian actor met the acclaimed South Korean director courtesy of his first film role.
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NewsSydney Film Festival Is Teaming Up with Vivid 2025 on a Few Big Events, Including a Celebration of Warren Ellis
Watch documentary 'Ellis Park', then catch its subject chatting about the film and putting on a short musical performance.
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NewsGet Ready to Visit Hawkins, Indiana: An Immersive 'Stranger Things' Experience Is Hitting Australia for Vivid Sydney 2025
Another Netflix hit is taking over Luna Park Sydney — this time taking you back to the 80s, including via locations from the series.
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NewsNigella Lawson Is Curating Dinners in the Muru Giligu Pedestrian Tunnel — and That's Just the Start of Vivid Sydney's Huge 2025 Program
Other highlights include Tangerine Dream, Anohni and the Johnsons, and an immersive 'Stranger Things' experience — plus the entire Vivid Light Walk is free.
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NewsRhinestones at the Ready: Dolly Parton-Worshipping Musical 'Here You Come Again' Is Coming to Australia
'Jolene', '9 to 5', 'Islands in the Stream' and 'I Will Always Love You' are among the iconic songs featured in this stage production, which is heading Down Under in 2025.
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A Free Installation by a TeamLab Alum, Exclusive Suki Waterhouse Gigs, 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch': RISING's 2025 Program Is Here
This year's lineup includes 65 events featuring 327 artists — a field of red beams that respond to movement and Waterhouse's first-ever Aussie shows among them.
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NewsWrap Up Your Formula One Race Day in St Kilda With Free Gigs at Last Lap Live
Level up your day at the Grand Prix with a massive free live music event along Fitzroy Street featuring an epic lineup including Kylie Auldist, The Yachtski Brothers, Hot Machine and more.
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NewsGiving an Iconic Rivalry a New Beginning While Honouring the Past: Dario Scardapane and Sana Amanat Chat 'Daredevil: Born Again'
The animosity between Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk has officially entered the MCU, with help from guiding forces behind 'The Punisher' and 'Ms Marvel'.
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NewsAfter a Year Off, Dark Mofo Is Still Keen to Challenge and Confront with Its First 2025 Lineup Announcement
Nathan Maynard's 'We threw them down the rocks where they had thrown the sheep' is the returning Tasmanian festival's first work for 2025.
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NewsGreat Southern Nights Is Taking Over Sydney with Two Weeks of Live Gigs
The Harbour City will be home to the hottest festival lineup this side of the Great Dividing Range.
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News"You Swore": The Full Trailer for 'The Last of Us' Season Two Is Here with Betrayal, Monsters and More
This time around, when HBO's game-to-TV hit returns, Joel and Ellie aren't just fighting to survive — they're in conflict with each other.