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NewsThis Short Film Competition Gives Filmmakers the Chance to Work With Dominic West
Write a killer seven-page script and The Wire's Jimmy McNulty could star in it.
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NewsNetflix Is Finally Making an Original Australian Series
Tidelands' ten episodes, each running for 50 minutes, will be shot in Queensland in 2018.
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NewsThis New Pet Photography Studio Captures Pets at Their Most Gorgeous and Goofiest
Meet Frog Dog Studios.
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NewsA National Geographic Animal Photography Exhibition Is Coming to Melbourne Zoo
It will be the first time Photo Ark has visited the southern hemisphere.
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NewsBrisbane's GOMA Is Getting a Major New James Turrell Light Installation
It will be Australia's third permanent Turrell piece, with the others at Hobart's Mona and the NGA in Canberra.
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NewsThe Lord of the Rings Design Workshop Is Bringing an Insane Insect Exhibition to Australia
Get up close and personal with large-scale creepy crawlies at this immersive showcase.
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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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NewsFootscray Is Getting a New Eight-Screen Cinema Complex
Coming in 2019 or 2020 from the team behind Yarraville's iconic Sun Theatre.
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NewsFive Hugely Topical Films to See at the 2017 Human Rights Arts and Film Festival
Visit Manila's slums, follow a PNG community fighting for justice, and see how civil servants would respond to a hypothetical nuclear attack.
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NewsThe Creators of Wallace & Gromit Are Coming to Australia
Peter Lord and David Sproxton will help launch ACMI's massive Aardman Animations exhibition with a series of talks and masterclasses.
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GuideEight Bold New Melbourne Art Exhibitions That Will Make Your May
See paintings that climb off the canvas, a survey of Christian Thompson's work and the NGV's long-awaited Van Gogh exhibition.
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NewsThe New York Times Officially Launches Australian Coverage
With the launch of a Sydney newsroom, the publication will extend their coverage to Australian news and issues.
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NewsThe Emerging Writers' Festival Unveils 2017 Program
This year, the writerly festival includes a play on climate change, a masterclass on food writing and a Looking for Alibrandi-inspired formal.
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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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NewsA Look Inside the NGV's Blockbuster Van Gogh Exhibition
Take a walk through the NGV's huge winter exhibition, featuring over 60 works from the Dutch post-impressionist master.
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NewsAustralia's Getting a Bingo Rave
The UK's wildly popular and highly unexpected cult event is launching in Sydney and Melbourne. Just yell "bingo" and wait for the drop.
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News'Wet Hot American Summer' Is Being Turned Into a Role-Playing Game
Make your dream of stepping into the 2001 cult hit a reality with this crowdfunded tabletop game.
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NewsHow Modern Filmmakers Are Tackling the Complex Topic of Psychological Manipulation
With the release of Cate Shortland's Berlin Syndrome, we look at how victims and perpetrators of psychological abuse are portrayed in modern film.
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NewsFive Must-See Films at the 2017 Spanish Film Festival
Our picks from the 39 features on the bill, from Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon's latest Trip to a sumptuous period piece and a classic cat-and-mouse thriller.
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NewsBlues, Roots and Langos: A Journey Through Bluesfest's 2017 Food Lineup
From Yemeni bread to vegan pasta and those organic doughnuts — here's what we ate at Bluesfest this year.
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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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NewsAmerican Essentials Film Festival Reveals Indie-Focused 2017 Program
Two Greta Gerwig films, Australia's own Bond and Ewan McGregor jumping behind the camera rank among the second-year festival's 31 titles.
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NewsThis Immersive London Exhibition Will Put You Inside an Episode of 'Black Mirror'
Relive the anthology series' "Fifty Million Merits" episode as part of the Barbican's three-month science-fiction showcase.
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NewsNYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art Has Installed a Surreal Rooftop Dinner Party
Characters and objects from the Met's collection have been digitally scanned, cast as sculptures and spread underneath the Manhattan skyline.
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NewsA Huge Akira Kurosawa Retrospective Is Coming to Australia
The legendary Japanese director's work will screen in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra.
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NewsThe Museum of Everything Is Coming to Australia
The world's first dedicated showcase of ordinary art is heading to MONA for its first Australian visit.
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NewsDark Mofo Has Announced Its Spectacular Full 2017 Lineup
Large-scale lasers, an orchestra mixed with around 500 litres of blood, and a 200-kilometre pilgrimage to six different churches are all on the bill.
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NewsA Handy Guide to This Year's Splendour Sideshows
Not heading to Splendour? Just bring the festival to you.
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NewsBrisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival Cancelled, Leaving Brisbane Without a Major Film Festival
Terrible and downright unacceptable news.
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NewsAustralia's Human Rights Film Festival Announces 2017 Program
Tired of the same old blockbuster formula? See a film that cuts through the noise.
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NewsAcademy Award-Winning Director Oliver Stone Is Coming to Australia
The influential, polarising American filmmaker joins both the Vivid Ideas and Semi Permanent lineups in Sydney.
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GuideTen New Melbourne Art Exhibitions to Brighten Up Your April
Experience dark and lurid dreamlike paintings, the neon lights of Beijing and an immersive maze of mirrors.
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NewsWe're Hosting An Advanced Screening of 'Berlin Syndrome' in Melbourne
The latest from Australian director Cate Shortland is a provocative thriller receiving rave reviews.
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NewsThe World's Biggest TV Festival Is Coming to Melbourne
Series Mania will bring screenings, panels, workshops and more to ACMI for five days of TV-focused fun.
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NewsMelbourne Is Getting a Shit Garden Exhibition
An entire exhibition celebrating the world's outstandingly disastrous landscaping choices.
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NewsThe Team Behind Serial and This American Life Just Dropped a Brand New True Crime Podcast
S-Town investigates a true story set in rural Alabama — and all seven episodes are here.
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NewsSplendour in the Grass Announces Dream-Fulfilling 2017 Lineup
After six years, LCD Soundsystem are coming back to Australia.
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GuideEight Uproariously Entertaining Shows to See at the 2017 Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Laugh about euthanasia, sex while wearing a backpack and how nothing you do means anything at all.
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NewsWe're Hosting an Advanced Screening of 'Get Out' in Melbourne
Register your details and go into the draw to come and see a truly terrifying movie with us.
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NewsShia LaBeouf's Anti-Trump Project Has Been Shut Down Again
The fourth time wasn't the charm for the actor turned activist's artistic protest piece.
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NewsThe Guggenheim Has Just Unveiled Its Stunning Synthetic Desert Installation
Visitors step into a sea of sound-suppressing foam pyramids in an artwork designed to "heighten our understanding of perceptual experience."
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NewsSpanish Film Festival Announces Stacked 2017 Program
With 38 features on the bill, from Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon's latest Trip to bank robber thrillers and Goya-winning revenge flicks.
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NewsTen Films from SXSW 2017 Required in Australian Cinemas Immediately
They're making waves in Austin, let's hope the tide brings them to our shores.
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NewsClient Liaison's New 'Off White Limousine' Video Stars a Disarmingly Attractive Melbourne CBD
Collins Street has never looked so good.
