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NewsThese Are the Best Films of the Last Year According to Australian Film Critics
The Australian Film Critics Association have announced their 2016 award winners.
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NewsCourtney Barnett's Live Blog Was the Best Thing About the Grammys
Apart from Kendrick. Because Kendrick.
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NewsWin Tickets to Hail, Caesar!
The latest film from the Coen Brothers combines crime, comedy and a ridiculous cast.
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NewsTen Kickass Australian Films You Need to See in 2016
With everything from stories of Aussie cults to giant bloody spiders — it's easy to support local film this year.
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NewsRose Quartz Is Tasmania's Intimate New Music Festival
Held on the remnants of a pink crystal beach.
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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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NewsThe 15 Best Straight-to-Streaming Movies of 2024 So Far
From 2024's first half, you need to be catching an Oscar-winning documentary, Glen Powell as a fake assassin and plenty of horror shocks from your couch.
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NewsEight New Movies You Can Watch in July That Have Been Fast-Tracked From Cinemas to Streaming
Get comfy on the couch with 'Furiosa', the latest gem from Hirokazu Kore-eda and a hypnotic vision of an AI-dominated future.
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GuideMust-Stream TV: All the Best Shows You Should Be Watching From 2024 So Far
Don't spend hours scrolling through streaming platforms — here's 2024's standout shows that you need to see.
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NewsTropfest Founder John Polson Speaks Out on Why the Festival Almost Went Under
The Tropfest founder got real on triple j's Hack.
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NewsVan Gogh Has Listed His 'Bedroom' on Airbnb, and You Can Stay in It
Spend a night in a replica of the post-impressionist's The Bedroom.
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NewsJK Rowling Is Releasing an Eighth Harry Potter Book Because All Is Well
We're damn well stupefied.
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GuideThe Best Things to See, Do and Taste at Melbourne Chinese New Year 2016
Ring in the Year of the Monkey with lunar markets, classical music, and adorable monkey buns.
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NewsTropfest Announces 2016 Judges and Live Music Lineup
Try and impress the director of one of 2015's best Aussie films.
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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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NewsACMI Is Launching a Collaborative Workspace Called ACMI X
Share an office with filmmakers, designers and retro arcade games.
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NewsThis Website Is the Airbnb for Matching Musicians with Recording Studios
Forget booking a holiday — book in some studio time instead.
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GuideFive Fierce February Exhibitions You Really Shouldn't Miss
Get lost in the surreal, the hallucinogenic and the reimagined this month.
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NewsHidden Hometown Gems from Laneway Festival's Unearthed Lineup
Find the best local fried chicken, coffee and Ethiopian nosh with Australian music's newbies.
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NewsGroovin the Moo Announce 2016 Lineup
GTM returns with Danny Brown, Odesza and a whole lotta local talent.
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EventLe Bon Ton's Superbowl Party
Mon, 10 Feb, 2025
Le Bon Ton, Collingwood
Pair your Superbowl watching with hot wings, waffles and chicken, and Budweiser beers.
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EventGalentine's Day at Pincho Disco
Thu, 13 Feb, 2025
Pincho Disco, Collingwood
Gather your gals, gays and theys together for a big Latin American feast the day before Valentine's Day
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EventGABS Craft Beer Fest
Fri, 4 Apr, 2025
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Wharf
Where can you get a drink from a 120-tap bar? At 2025's Great Australasian Beer Spectapular.
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EventWhat's on in Frankston: 2025 Events
Multiple single dates
Various Frankston venues
From European beach clubs to street art and sand sculpting, here's everything hitting Frankston in early 2025.
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EventBiggest Best IMAX Film Festival
Sat, 11 Jan - Sun, 2 Mar 2025
IMAX Melbourne, Carlton
This IMAX Melbourne film festival is filled with the best and biggest flicks to see on its huge 32-metre-wide by 23-metre-tall screen.
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EventEuropa! Europa Film Festival
Wed, 12 Feb - Wed, 12 Mar 2025
Select cinemas in Melbourne, Various locations
Celebrate European cinema with a packed film festival lineup featuring 44 movies from 26 countries.
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EventDrake: 'Anita Max Win' Tour
Multiple single dates
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
The 'Hotline Bling' performer 'The Degrassi: The Next Generation' star is returning Down Under for the first time in eight years.
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EventThe Play That Goes Wrong
Wed, 3 Sep - Sun, 21 Sep 2025
Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne
This comedic production about a chaotic play focuses on The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society's efforts to stage a murder-mystery.
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EventPickleball Pop-Up at Ichi Ni Nana Izakaya
Thu, 9 Jan - Thu, 6 Feb 2025
Ichi Ni Nana Izakaya, Fitzroy
Drop by this Japanese restaurant to pair your sushi and cocktails with a few rounds of pickleball.
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Event$15 Cacio e Pepe at Marameo
Tue, 7 Jan - Fri, 31 Jan 2025
Marameo, Melbourne
The team is slashing the price of its most-popular pasta to celebrate its fifth birthday — but only until the end of January.
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NewsKanye Will Premiere His New Album with Screenings in Sydney and Melbourne
Watch Kanye debut Waves live from Madison Square Garden.
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NewsYou Can't Swim in Artist Leandro Erlich's Pool (But You Can Walk Along the Bottom)
One of our favourite, most Instagrammable optical illusions to date.
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NewsMelbourne Is Getting a Brand New Jazz Club
It's set to kick off with a mini residency from American saxophonist Ravi Coltrane.
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NewsConcrete Playground's Useful Guide to the 2016 Oscar Race
Who will win, who should win and who got snubbed.
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NewsBenjamin Law Talks Facebook, Family and the Lack of Diversity on Australian TV
Mad chats with the brains behind the new SBS comedy The Family Law.
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NewsReviving the Best Bits of Cinema with Quentin Tarantino
The Hateful Eight director talks bringing back westerns, 70mm film and good old cinema-going.
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NewsWin Tickets to Sugar Mountain and the Official Bacardi Friends and Family Afterparty
With complimentary drinks at both events. Both.
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NewsMiranda July and Richard Dawkins to Kick Off an Epic Year for the Wheeler Centre
The first part of the 2016 program is out — and it's looking very satisfactory indeed.
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NewsBuy an Original Banksy and Get This Free House Thrown in
Three bedrooms, a patio and a mural by the world's most famous street artist.
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NewsAussies, Prepare to Say Goodbye to Your US Netflix Account
"Those using proxies and unblockers will only be able to access the service in the country where they currently are."
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NewsHere's This Year's Motley Crew of Oscar Nominees
Featuring a mix of blockbusters and indie releases, plus a whole lot of white people.
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GuideThe Ten Best Things to See at Midsumma Festival 2016
This year's program boasts everything from rollercoasters to water polo.
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NewsDo You Realise? The Weird and Wonderful World of Wayne Coyne
The Flaming Lips frontman had mad chats with CP on their Australian tour.
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NewsTatsuo Miyajima's Futuristic Installation Art Is Coming to Australia for the First Time
Start preparing for it now.
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NewsWhistler's Mother Has Arrived in Australia
The NGV exhibition will mark the first time she's visited our shores.
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NewsLCD Soundsystem Are Definitely Back Together and Releasing a New Album This Year
All your friends are back together.
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NewsWin a Fancy Art Weekend Trip for Two to Sydney
Have a fancy weekend of fine dining, Grayson Perry and Monet in Sydney.
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