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NewsThis Trailer for Studio Ghibli's Final Film Has Already Broken Our Hearts
Catch a glimpse of When Marnie Was There, Ghibli's last feature.
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NewsWin Tickets to Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
The loneliness of the superfan is poetically told through the story of Kumiko and her quest for Fargo's buried money.
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NewsThe Book of Mormon Is Coming to Australia
Australians can finally get in on the crass magnum opus from South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
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NewsPalace Theatre to Hold a Huge Garage Sale This Weekend
Take home a piece of the Palace, however bittersweet it may feel.
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NewsSplendour in the Grass 2015 Official Sideshows Announced
Missed out on a Splendour ticket? Just bring the festival to you.
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NewsFive New Reasons to Have High Hopes for Jurassic World
The Jurassic World trailer has taught us a lot about the made-up new dinosaur, Indominus (yes, Indominus).
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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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NewsLally Katz Takes Her Theatrical Surrealism to a Resort on the International Date Line for Timeshare
The Australian playwright says there's a lot you can learn over several weeks of 'research' in luxury resorts.
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NewsWin Tickets to See Banksy Does New York
See the adult scavenger hunt that swept through New York's art scene.
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NewsEmerging Writers' Festival Announce 2015 Program
This year, EWF tackles the F word — in more ways than one.
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GuideThe Six Best Record Stores for Vinyl in Melbourne
Must-do stops on your Record Store Day hunting trail.
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NewsMalthouse Theatre Is Giving Away Free Tickets, If You've Got 5000+ Followers to Tweet At
And for once, you won't be instructed to switch off your mobile phone.
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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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NewsThe STD Ghost, Pubertal Werewolves and the History of Sex in Horror Movies
Worth your time: the new movie whose protagonist is haunted by an anthropomorphised STD.
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NewsDark Mofo Announces Huge 2015 Program
British jellymongers Bompas and Parr are just the tip of this dark and delicious Tasmanian iceberg.
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Bluesfest Fuses Generations and Genres for a Muddy, Muddy 2015
Mud schmud, Bluesfest let cancelled headliners come out in the wash this year.
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EventDome Under Fulldome Festival
Fri, 31 Jan - Sun, 2 Feb 2025
Scienceworks, Spotswood
Head to Melbourne Planetarium to see 32 films from 15 countries at Australia's only fulldome film festival.
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EventIce Cream Festival
Wed, 12 Feb - Sun, 23 Feb 2025
Various locations around Victoria, Melbourne
12 days. 144 flavours. Three venues. Many a brain freeze.
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EventThe Chinatown Precinct's Lunar New Year Block Party
Sun, 2 Feb, 2025
Chinatown Melbourne, Melbourne
Ring in the Year of the Snake with food stalls, local restaurant dining deals, cultural performances, a dragon parade, blessings, live music, a kids' area (with face-painting and craft classes) and a ...
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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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NewsWhat Does Jay-Z's TIDAL Have that Spotify Hasn't?
Meet Australia's brand new streaming service — with a bigger price tag, but more Swifty.
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NewsWin Tickets to See Mommy by Filmmaker Xavier Dolan
The Quebecois wunderkind has taken out the Cannes Jury Prize at 26.
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NewsThe Majestically Decaying Head of Queen Nefertiti Is Sitting in Sydney Harbour Right Now
See the barely believable images from Sydney's annual Opera on the Harbour.
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NewsShould You Switch to Australian Netflix?
There are some Netflix shows we're slapping down our $8.99 for immediately. And then there are some glaring omissions.
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NewsFive Reasons to Tune in to World Movies Uncut
World Movies is the only station in Australia allowed to show R18+ films, and they're taking full advantage of it.
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NewsAlison Wonderland Is Bringing Back Her Secret Warehouse Parties
Bringing electronica out of the clubs and into Australia's industrial spaces.
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NewsThe Black Keys Cancel Asia Pacific Shows, Bluesfest Loses Second Headliner
First Kravitz, now Keys.
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NewsJimmy Kimmel Pranks SXSW Punters with the Ol' Fake Band Stunt
"What do you think of DJ Gluten... hard to tolerate?"
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NewsNine Incredible Things You're Missing at SXSW This Year
From Tinder robots to Kwik-E-Mart food trucks and virtual reality SNL, SXSW 2015 has truly opened with a bang.
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NewsVivid Sydney Announces Huge 2015 Program
Giant Rococo pigs, interactive games of duck, duck, goose, Sufjan Stevens and TV on the Radio.
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NewsSee the Eye-Opening Pictures from the 2015 World Press Photo Contest
The world's best photojournalism is about to hit Australia for another year.
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Food Artists Bompas & Parr Make Bespoke Cocktails Based on Your DNA
These cocktails could not be more biologically bespoke.
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NewsAll the Life Advice You Need from Terry Pratchett
“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
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NewsWin Tickets to See Chris Rock's Top Five
A hilarious reminder of just how good Chris Rock can be.
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NewsTim Burton to Direct Live Action Dumbo Remake
Dancing pink elephants and creepy circuses — classic Burton.
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NewsWin Tickets to See Chappie
For everyone who fell for the heart-rendingly emotive Beymax, here's a new robot to love.
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NewsFive Pieces of David Lynch Homework to Do Before GOMA's Between Two Worlds
Apart from the most influential TV show of all time, he's made a littering PSA, music, comic strips and his own coffee blend. Get acquainted.
