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NewsHow Australia's Comedy Queens Made "Funny Broadchurch": Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney Talk 'Deadloch'
"We're just terrible at writing men, so it was easier just to have a dead one instead of writing dialogue for him."
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NewsDisney's Nostalgic New 'Winnie-the-Pooh' Musical with Life-Sized Puppets Is Touring Australia
Hundred Acre Wood's beloved residents are hitting stages around the country in this all-ages production.
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NewsFoo Fighters Are Heading Down Under This Summer for a Hefty Stadium Tour of Australia and New Zealand
This is a call to see the Dave Grohl-fronted band on their first headline tour of Australia and NZ since 2018.
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NewsKim Cattrall Isn't in the New 'And Just Like That...' Trailer, But She Will Pop Up in Season Two
Cosmos at the ready — the 'Sex and the City' followup is back with a few more familiar cast members.
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NewsThe Kates' Smart and Hilarious Murder-Mystery 'Deadloch' Kills It as a Crime Drama and as a Comedy
Get cracking — Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan's new series is one of the streaming highlights of the year.
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NewsAustralia's Most-Comprehensive Rembrandt Exhibition in 25 Years Is Taking Over the NGV All Winter
More than 100 of the 17th-century Dutch artist’s etchings are in the spotlight at this impressive retrospective, alongside a selection of his iconic paintings.
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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 Right Now 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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NewsThe 15 Best Returning TV Shows of 2024 So Far
These are the beloved small-screen favourites to say "yes chef!" to, sleuth along with and giggle with — and get catchy songs stuck in your head from, too.
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NewsThe 15 Best Films of 2024 So Far
The best movies from 2024's first half include a meditative trip to Tokyo, a scorching neo-noir thriller, multiple Oscar-winners and a stunning robot story.
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NewsThe 15 Best New TV Shows of 2024 So Far
From gloriously surreal comedies and unforgettable true tales to stunning remakes and savvy sci-fi mysteries, 2024 has been filled with new small-screen highlights.
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NewsTwelve Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in June
Spend your couch time watching the delicious return of 'The Bear', Glen Powell playing a fake hitman and Lily Gladstone's latest excellent performance.
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NewsEight New Movies You Can Watch in June That Have Been Fast-Tracked From Cinemas to Streaming
Get comfy on the couch with the Sydney-shot action antics of 'The Fall Guy', a heartbreaking Oscar-nominated animated gem and the love-triangle games of 'Challengers'.
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GuideTwelve of the Best RISING 2024 Events That Will Help You Get Out of the House This Winter
RISING 2024's most-exciting events include an absurdist dinner party, a massive festival within the festival and a heap of different one-off parties.
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News'I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson' Season Three Is the Best Way to Spend 90 Minutes Right Now
Stop rewatching 'Coffin Flop' over sloppy steaks and start binging the latest hilarious sketches to drop from Netflix's best-ever comedy.
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NewsNetflix's Full 'Black Mirror' Season Six Trailer Is Here and Dripping with Existential Dread
Satirising streaming, travelling to space, 'Red Mirror' — they're all in store when the series unleashes five new tech nightmares on June 15.
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NewsTwelve Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in May
Satirical takes on history, thoughtful Aussie comedies, Jon Hamm as Fletch and Pete Davidson playing Pete Davidson: they're all on this month's must-stream list.
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NewsPrime Video Is Making a Female-Led Australian Version of 'The Office' Starring Felicity Ward
Move over David Brent and Michael Scott — it's Hannah Howard's turn to get awkward, this time managing a packaging company.
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NewsNew Winter Festival Now or Never Is Bringing a Stacked Music Lineup to the Royal Exhibition Building
The historic Royal Exhibition Building will play host to a cutting-edge club night — plus Semi Permanent is dropping in for a one-day iteration dubbed Never Permanent.
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NewsNetflix's Queer Coming-of-Age Delight 'Heartstopper' Will Return for Season Two in August
Adapted from Alice Oseman's graphic novels, the 2022-premiering gem also has a third season in the works.
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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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NewsLight It Up Is the New Wiz Khalifa-Headlined Hip Hop Festival That's Touring Down Under This Spring
The 'Roll Up' and 'See You Again' rapper will be joined by Rae Sremmurd, Lola Brooke and Hooligan Hefs.
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NewsMinistry of Sound Is Taking Its Huge 90s and 00s Parties Around Australia This Winter
Across two massive weekends, this tour will play ten shows in six Australian cities, paying tribute to 90s raves and 00s club life.
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NewsCults, Emotional Vampires and a Chilling Aussie Story: Miranda Otto and Kate Mulvany Chat 'The Clearing'
A drama inspired by Australian cult The Family isn't the kind of project that actors get offered every day.
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NewsHow to Bring Dinosaurs to Life in a David Attenborough Documentary with the 'Prehistoric Planet' Team
Executive producer Mike Gunton and series producer Tim Walker tell us all about Apple TV+'s stunning series, which is back for its second season.
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NewsBarbie and Ken Get Arrested in the Real World in the Full (and Extremely Pink) New 'Barbie' Trailer
The latest sneak peek at Greta Gerwig's Margot Robbie- and Ryan Gosling-starring movie sees the usually blissful dolls experiencing an existential crisis.
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NewsCat Power Talks Her Love of Bob Dylan, Making Thurston Moore Cry and New Music on the Horizon
"Thurston Moore was in town and he said — he's gonna kill me — but he said 'Mr Tambourine Man' made him cry. Isn't that sweet?"
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Event'Jurassic World': The Exhibition
Fri, 2 Aug - Mon, 28 Oct 2024
Fever Exhibition Hall, Brunswick
This exhibition filled with life-sized, lifelike creatures is your latest excuse to indulge your dinosaur obsession in Melbourne.
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EventHear My Eyes: 'Wake in Fright'
Fri, 16 Aug, 2024
Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne
In its all of its newly restored 4K glory, this iconic Australian thriller is getting the Hear My Eyes treatment with Surprise Chef providing a new soundtrack.
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EventAccidentally Wes Anderson: The Exhibition
Wed, 18 Sep - Sun, 3 Nov 2024
360 Bourke Street, Melbourne, Melbourne
Bringing the Instagram feed to the IRL realm, this symmetry-loving exhibition is making its Australian debut in Melbourne.
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EventBen Schwartz & Friends
Sun, 4 May, 2025
Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne
The 'Parks and Recreation' and 'The Afterparty' star is bringing his live improv show to Melbourne.
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EventOktoberfest in the Gardens
Sat, 12 Oct, 2024
Catani Gardens, St Kilda West
This big Bavarian celebration is bringing its steins, schnitties, schnapps and strudels to Catani Gardens.
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EventPinot Palooza
Fri, 22 Nov - Sat, 23 Nov 2024
Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton
Red wine fans, rejoice: this vino festival is showcasing up to 100 wineries over two spring days at the Royal Exhibition Building.
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EventIn a Violent Nature
Thu, 1 Aug - Wed, 21 Aug 2024
Various cinemas in Melbourne
Even if think you’ve caught every twist on killer-in-the-woods flicks, you haven't watched one as stunningly executed as this gorefest before.
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EventAperitivo Nights at Lollo
Tue, 30 Jul - Thu, 28 Nov 2024
Lollo at W Melbourne, Melbourne
You can score $2 oysters on Tuesdays, cheap margarita cocktails and margherita pizzas on Wednesdays, and discounted hot wings and beers on Thursdays.
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EventCollectFest Melbourne
Sat, 5 Jul - Sun, 6 Jul 2025
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Wharf
Marvel at some epic collections (or add to your own) at this huge convention.
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NewsThe Lume's Next Big Multi-Sensory Exhibition 'Connection' Is Dedicated to First Nations Art and Music
This immersive walk-through experience showcasing 110-plus Indigenous talents will take over Melbourne's digital-only art gallery from late June.
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NewsGet Ready to Cringe: The Trailer for 'I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson' Season Three Is Here
Jason Schwartzman, 'The Bear' star Ayo Edebiri and the returning Will Forte are among the sketch-comedy gem's latest guest stars.
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News'Only Murders in the Building' Will Bring Season Three's Sleuthing to Your Streaming Queue in August
Everyone's favourite murder-mystery comedy returns this winter with Meryl Streep and Paul Rudd joining the cast.
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NewsNetflix's Crackdown on Sharing Passwords Has Started Rolling Out in Australia
If you want to let someone who doesn't live with you access your account, you'll now need to pay an extra $7.99 per month.
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NewsRose Byrne and Seth Rogen's New Buddy Comedy 'Platonic' Is Perfectly Cast — and a Great Hang
They made an ace pair in 'Bad Neighbours' and 'Bad Neighbours 2', and they're just as entertaining together in Apple TV+'s new comedy.
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NewsDisney+'s The Family-Inspired Australian Cult Drama 'The Clearing' Is Riveting and Eerie Viewing
The streaming platform's first original scripted Aussie drama tells a nightmarish tale fictionalised from reality with a top-notch local cast.
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NewsSydney Film Festival 2023 Will Close with the Australian Premiere of 'Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny'
SFF is going the blockbuster route to finish out this year's festival, with the latest 'Indy' film screening straight from Cannes.
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NewsMore 'Winnie-the-Pooh' Horror Movies Are on the Way, Plus Takes on 'Peter Pan', 'Bambi' and 'Cinderella'
Say goodbye to your childhood — 'Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey' was just the beginning.
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NewsA New Stage Version of 'The Wizard of Oz' Is Bringing Its Yellow Brick Road to Melbourne This Winter
Head off to see the wizard at this new production at Melbourne's National Theatre.
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NewsMelbourne International Film Festival 2023 Will Open with Aussie Sundance Audience Award-Winner 'Shayda'
Also on the lineup: world-premiere documentary 'Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story', MIFF's first-ever gala screening from its Music on Film program.
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NewsDavid Attenborough's Dinosaur Documentary Series 'Prehistoric Planet' Is Still a Stunner in Season Two
Move over 'Jurassic Park' — with its spectacular second five-night run, 'Prehistoric Planet' is the best dinosaur franchise now.
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NewsMaking More Than Just a New 'Mystery Road': Ivan Sen and Simon Baker Talk Outback Noir 'Limbo'
"If you start digging below the surface, there's not many country towns in Australia that don't have some kind of case like this at some point."
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NewsNicolas Cage Looks Set to Play an Aussie Expat Returning Home for a Beach Battle in 'The Surfer'
A new Aussie-set surfing thriller starring the one and only Nicolas Cage? Sold.
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NewsShort Films on the Big Screen: Five Unmissable Sessions at this Year's St Kilda Film Festival
From comedy to horror and everything in between, don't miss the 2023 St Kilda Film Festival.
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NewsThe Presets Are Celebrating 20 Years of Killer Tunes with a 20-Plus-Night Australian DJ Tour
Julian Hamilton and Kim Moyes are taking things back to where they all began, playing small clubs and bars to mark two decades behind the decks.
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NewsFive Romantic Melbourne Date Ideas for This Week From Budget to Blowout
Just think of us as your cultural wingman.
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NewsMartin Scorsese's Western Crime-Drama 'Killers of the Flower Moon' Just Dropped Its First Trailer
Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and 'Certain Women' standout Lily Gladstone star in the iconic director's new movie, which premieres at the Cannes Film Festival.
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NewsIt's Back, Baby: 'Futurama' Will Return This Winter After a Ten-Year Hiatus — and It Has a Trailer
Good news, everyone! Life in the 31st century is heading back to the small screen, starting in July.
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News'And Just Like That...' Will Return with More Cosmos and Another Familiar 'Sex and the City' Face in June
This time, John Corbett is back as Aidan to make Carrie's post-Big love life even more complicated.
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NewsHow Soda Jerk Turned US Politics and All Your Favourite Movies Into Suburban Stoner Musical 'Hello Dankness'
Screening at Dark Mofo and Sydney Film Festival, Soda Jerk's first film since 'TERROR NULLIUS' is another stunning sample-fuelled piece of political art.
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NewsThe Full Stunt-Filled Trailer for 'Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning — Part One' Is Here
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: watch Tom Cruise ride a motorcycle off a cliff.
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NewsDisney+ Will Start Streaming Season Two of 'Loki' and New Marvel Series 'Echo' This Spring
Been missing the Marvel Cinematic Universe on the small screen? There are more Disney+ shows on the way before 2023 is out.
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NewsAustralia's Spanish Film Festival Is Back for 2023 with a 32-Movie Lineup to Celebrate Its 25th Year
Surveying the best cinema from Spain and Latin America, this year's festival kicks off with a culinary comedy, and includes a smash-hit thriller starring Miguel Herrán from 'Money Heist'.
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NewsJust In: Falls Festival Is Taking a Year Off and Won't Host Any Fests Over Summer 2023–24
"Our team needs a break, so this year we’ll take time off to enjoy the holiday period and allow some space to re-imagine how Falls will look in the future."
