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NewsFive Underappreciated Studio Ghibli Films You Should Hurry Up and Watch
If you love Totoro and Spirited Away, then these should be right up your alley.
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NewsMPavilion is Now Open With a Program of 118 Free Arts Events
Say hello to your new summer clubhouse.
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NewsState Government Proposes $70 Million Funding For New Bike Paths
But it might not be as helpful as you think.
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NewsMiranda July Has Made You a Handbag with Some Very Specific Uses
It's exactly as strange as she is.
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NewsLearn to Draw Like the Masters with This Colouring Book for Grown Ups
Feel free to colour outside the lines.
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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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NewsWin Tickets to Complexity of Belonging at Melbourne Festival
Exploring the age of social media with MTC, Chunky Move and Schaubuhne's director-in-residence.
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NewsLaneway Festival Drops Huge 2015 Lineup
Laneway's tenth birthday sees some seriously hyped-up names on the lineup.
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NewsDavid Walsh Wants to Open a Casino at MONA
Despite David Walsh labelling gambling as "mostly immoral".
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NewsRage Against the Machine Guitarist Pulls a ‘Don’t You Know Who I Am?’ on Cafe
Then went on a rampage about workers' rights after being denied.
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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 Ten Best Things to See at the Melbourne Festival 2014
This year you can ride a golden carousel, watch some live-action manga and hear 'Frontier Psychiatrist' like never before. This isn't your average arts festival.
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News20,000 Days on Earth: Truth, Fiction and Never Asking Nick Cave to Do Things Twice
How much of the impossible doco-fiction epic was scripted? The answer may surprise you.
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NewsFive Life Lessons We Can Learn from Dance Movies
You learn more than just the running man when you watch All The Dance Movies.
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News‘Eat Like You Give a Fuck’ With the New Thug Kitchen Cookbook
All other cookbooks are now irrelevant.
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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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NewsAC/DC Lane Is Officially Getting Its Lightning Bolt This Week
Cherry Bar are throwing it a big housewarming party.
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NewsSecurity Guard Injured by Gatecrashers at Listen Out Sydney
Police are asking for anyone with information to come forward.
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NewsThom Yorke Just Dropped a Sneaky Surprise Album
In true Yorke style, it's about to give the music industry a serious shake-up.
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NewsWin Tickets to The Sound of Waves at fortyfivedownstairs
The sea is no place for a human girl, even one who's a little more fish-like than normal.
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NewsLena Dunham is Your New Agony Aunt in This 12-Part Web Series
Some free advice: screaming 'vagina' in a chocolate shop is apparently a bad thing.
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NewsKirsten Dunst’s New Short Film Flips Selfies the Bird
Dunst wants you to put your bloody phones away.
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NewsJohn Malkovich Becomes Hitchock, Warhol and Monroe in Restagings of Iconic Portraits
Being John Malkovich being Dali.
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NewsWould You Cruise Around in This Stained Glass Car?
The car of the future: less about function, more about art.
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NewsSurreal Photos of People Squishing Themselves Into Improbable City Spaces
Highly unusual behaviour. Must be an art.
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NewsCycling and Drinking Finally Combine in Melbourne’s First Bier Bike
But there's a very big non-alcoholic catch.
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NewsThe Good Guys: Five Melbourne Social Enterprises Helping You Help Others
Your dollars do double when you buy booze, pyjamas or toilet paper from these entrepreneurs.
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NewsThis Dancing Red Light Man Could Stop Pedestrians Walking into Traffic
Wait, did that red light man just dance?
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NewsWin Tickets to the Lavazza Italian Film Festival 2014
Fall in love with movies Italian style, including a breathtaking restoration of one of the country's all-time classics.
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NewsThese Photographs of Underwater Puppies Will Explode Your Heart
Underwater. Puppies. Underwater puppies.
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NewsGet Your Gold Coins Ready, Newtown Festival’s 2014 Lineup is Out
Deep Sea Arcade, Straight Arrows and Astronomy Class — all still for a gold coin donation.
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NewsClient Liaison to Tour with Flight Facilities in the Slickest Double Header Around
Team ups don't come better dressed than this.
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NewsNick Cave Has Created an Online Museum of Important Shit
Nick Cave thinks your drawerfuls of memories are important.
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