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NewsA Look Inside the NGV's Massive New Katsushika Hokusai Exhibition
Peep into the largest ever showcase of Hokusai's work seen in Australia and find out which of the 150 works can't be missed.
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NewsWe're Giving Away Tickets to See A Ghost Story
See the minimalistic ghost story what was a Sundance and Sydney Film Festival favourite.
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NewsThis New Street Art Exhibition Takes Place in an Abandoned Melbourne House
Street artist Rone has created murals and mini installations in each of the cottage's rooms.
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NewsTwo (Sort Of) New Harry Potter Books Will Be Released In October
Hold onto your various HP merchandise, kids.
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NewsThe Full Melbourne Writers Festival Program Has Been Announced
Filled with award-winning authors, published politicians, noted journalists and Harry Potter.
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NewsHot Tub Cinema Is Coming Back to Melbourne
The only cinema you're like to get pruny at — hopefully.
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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 potent westerns, horror standouts, coming-of-age gems, Top End rom-coms, outback noirs, and expressive dance flicks.
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NewsA List of All of the Wes Anderson Films, Ranked
No one makes movies quite like Wes Anderson, so we've revisited and ranked them all — even though every single one is a gem.
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NewsIt's Eurovision Time: Here's When You Can Watch 2025's Song Contest (with Tony Armstrong and Courtney Act Hosting Australia's Coverage)
This year's Australian entry: Go-Jo with the song 'Milkshake Man', which is being performed with a four-metre-tall blender as part of the set.
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NewsHop to It: 16 Classic and Eclectic Films You Can Stream This Easter Long Weekend
Some feature bunnies. Some include eggs or chocolate. Some have provocative takes on religion.
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NewsTen 2025 Oscar-Winning Films That You Can and Should Watch Immediately
Your newly Oscars-approved viewing list includes movies 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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NewsEleven 2025 Golden Globe-Winning Films and TV Shows That You Can (and Should) Watch Right Now
Make a cinema or 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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NewsA Major New Yayoi Kusama Exhibition Is Coming to Brisbane's GOMA
Go dotty with more than 70 pieces from the Japanese artist's seven-decade career.
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NewsA Huge Studio Ghibli Showcase Is Coming to Australia
Prepare to be spirited away as all 22 of the Japanese animation house's films are screened around the country.
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NewsMIFF Reveals Complete Chock-a-Block 2017 Program
Hope you haven't got anything planned for August.
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NewsFive Must-See Films at the 2017 Scandinavian Film Festival
With odes to real-life figures of sexual freedom and explorations of indigenous plights, Nordic noir is just the start of this Scandi film offering.
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NewsShakespeare's Historic Globe Theatre Is Popping Up in Melbourne
Partyeth like it's 1614 with performances of Much Ado About Nothing and Othello at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl.
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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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GuideTen New Melbourne Art Exhibitions That Will Drag You in From the Cold This July
Uncover the rituals of small-town life, take part in a world-class arts mini course, and see The Great Wave IRL.
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NewsRed Bull Music Academy Weekender Returns to Australia for Its Second Year
The globally acclaimed festival will tour Australia, then return to Sydney for four days of live gigs across the city.
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NewsThis Dream-Like New York Gallery Installation Changes Colour With the Weather
Turning the courtyard at MoMA PS1 into a environmentally responsive, colour-changing wonderland.
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NewsPalace Cinemas Is Opening a New 12-Screen Theatre in Melbourne's West
The new Moonee Ponds site will feature three 'platinum' screens and an outdoor cinema space.
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NewsA Look Inside ACMI's Cracking New Wallace & Gromit Exhibition
Get a glimpse at the magic and creative process behind beloved animation studio Aardman.
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NewsBroad City's Abbi Jacobson to Host New Modern Art Podcast
A WNYC and MoMA collaboration, this ten-episode series will unpack Duchamp, Polloclk et al. with Questlove, Hannibal Buress and RuPaul.
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EventDewberry Roller-Rama by The Body Shop at Queensbridge Square
Fri, 13 Feb - Sun, 15 Feb 2026
Queensbridge Square, Southbank
The fragrance of the 90s is officially back, so celebrate with a free, nostalgic roller rink experience happening over Valentine's Day weekend.
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EventRoyal Stacks 10th Birthday Celebration
Multiple single dates
Royal Stacks, Melbourne
Throwing it back to 2016, this Melbourne-born burger spot is celebrating a decade of mouthwatering takeaway with free burgers and OG prices.
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EventLaunch Weekend at Upstate Oakleigh
Sat, 28 Feb - Sun, 1 Mar 2026
Upstate Oakleigh, Oakleigh
Get in a high-energy workout in the southeast, as this rapidly growing brand of Pilates studios launches its latest wellness destination in Oakleigh.
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EventAfrica Film Festival Australia
Fri, 27 Mar - Sun, 29 Mar 2026
Cinema Nova, Carlton
Carlton's Cinema Nova will host three days of award-winning African films.
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EventJackalope Cinema 2026
Sun, 1 Mar - Tue, 31 Mar 2026
Jackalope Hotel Mornington Peninsula, Merricks North
Make your Mornington Peninsula stay even more picture-perfect, with this month-long open-air cinema program.
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EventTWOOBS Pop-Up
Multiple single dates
Hutton House Studio, Collingwood
Get your dogs out: this super-popular platform thong brand is popping up on Collingwood for four days.
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EventUNO Social Club at Hotel Esplanade
Mon, 2 Feb - Mon, 2 Mar 2026
Hotel Esplanade, Saint Kilda
Combine nostalgia and nightlife, as this card game experience transforms this much-loved Melbourne pub into an UNO-themed escape.
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Event15th Birthday BBQ Summer Series at Toorak Cellars
Sun, 1 Feb - Sun, 15 Mar 2026
Toorak Cellars, Armadale
No ordinary backyard barbecue, this seven-week birthday celebration sees top Melbourne chefs team up to showcase their masterful skills with the tongs.
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EventRooftop Pickleball at Hilton Melbourne Little Queen Street
Wed, 21 Jan - Sat, 28 Feb 2026
Hilton Melbourne Little Queen Street, Melbourne
Level up your pickleball skills in style, as this CBD hotel brings back its sunny rooftop court for the tennis season.
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EventNGV & Midsumma: Queer Histories, Futures & Creativity
Fri, 30 Jan and Sat, 7 Feb 2026
NGV International, Melbourne
Catch these curator-led tours, conversations and a special edition of NGV Friday Nights, each exploring a new perspective of LGBTQIA+ art and culture.
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NewsMelbourne International Film Festival Adds 33 New Cannes Titles to Its 2017 Lineup
Travelling from the French Riviera to Melbourne cinemas this winter.
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NewsNGV Australia Will Install an 11-Metre Indoor Swimming Pool for an Upcoming Exhibition
The new exhibition will explore the pool's cultural significance in Australian architecture and identity.
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NewsSydney Opera House Announces Ambitious New Ideas Festival, ANTIDOTE
It will replace the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in 2017.
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NewsWe're Giving Away Tickets to See Baby Driver
See the highly anticipated SXSW Audience Award winner about a talented getaway driver with a killer personal soundtrack.
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NewsMelbourne Museum Is Launching a Series of New After-Dark, Adults-Only Parties
Nocturnal will let you explore the museum after hours, with live music, cocktails and curator talks.
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NewsHungarian Film On Body and Soul Wins 2017 Sydney Film Festival Official Competition
It is the first film that's been directed by a female filmmaker to win the Sydney Film Prize.
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NewsMore Australian Content Might Be Coming to Netflix and Stan
The Australian government are considering enforcing local content quotas.
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NewsAustralia's Scandinavian Film Festival Announces Full 2017 Program
See 20 features from Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland — including the winner of the Silver Bear for best director at this year's Berlinale.
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NewsMelbourne International Film Festival 2017 to Open with Amazon Thriller 'Jungle'
Daniel Radcliffe kicks off the festival with the real-life tale of Yossi Ghinsberg, an Israeli adventurer, who trekked into the Amazon as a 22-year-old in 1981.
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NewsArtisan Brunch Is the Photo Series Turning Your Favourite Meal Into Famous Works of Art
Giving iconic artworks the food-focused makeover no one ever realised they needed — until now.
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NewsBreaking Bad Is Coming Back as a Virtual Reality Experience
Prepare to follow in Walter White's footsteps.
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NewsLorde Announces 2017 Australian Tour of Outdoor Venues
She'll play the Opera House Forecourt, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl and the Brisbane Botanic Gardens.
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NewsWe're Giving Away Double Passes to Kilter's Upcoming National Tour
Celebrate the release of Kilter's debut album, 'Through The Distortion', with tickets to his upcoming show.
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NewsMelbourne International Film Festival Reveals First 2017 Films
Charlie Hunnam and Robert Pattinson trekking through the jungle, Jason Schwartzman starring alongside the Beastie Boys' Adam Horovitz, and all six episodes of the new 'Top of the Lake'.
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GuideFive New Melbourne Art Exhibitions to Jump-Start Your June
Go back to the '90s at NGV Australia or jump on an inflatable installation that explores colonisation.
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NewsA Look Inside GOMA's Massive Marvel: Creating the Cinematic Universe Exhibition
Take a walk through GOMA's blockbuster exhibition, featuring over 600 Marvel costumes, props and artefacts.
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Studio Ghibli Is Building Its Very Own Theme Park
The Totoro-themed park is scheduled to open in 2020 — and if it doesn't feature a catbus, we'll eat this susuwatari.
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NewsA Giant, Inflatable Sad Kanye Is Coming to Splendour in the Grass
The next SITG project from Hungry Castle, the folks behind the 'Nicholas Cage in a Cage' jumping castle.
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NewsA Weekender's Guide to Brisbane During BIGSOUND
Where to stay, eat, drink and party around Brissie during this epic music festival.
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NewsTen Contemporary Melbourne Galleries Where You Can See Exceptional Art for Free
Ten spots to see fresh art for zero dollars.
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NewsVictoria Is Getting a New Coastal After-Dark Winter Arts Festival
Headed for Apollo Bay in the Otways, WinterWild is made up of four Saturdays of music, film and storytelling themed around the elements.
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NewsPlacebo Are Coming to Australia for a National 20th Anniversary Tour
And yes, they'll play old songs like 'Pure Morning’ and 'Nancy Boy’.
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NewsS-Town Creator Brian Reed Is Coming to Sydney and Melbourne
The creator of Serial and This American Life's latest podcast will be doing two talks on his visit.
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NewsFive Films from Cannes 2017 We Can't Wait to See in Australia
Now showing in French Riviera cinemas between May 17 and 28, and hopefully coming soon to a screen near you.
