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    The Kid LAROI Has Joined SXSW Sydney's 2024 Lineup as the Festival's Music Keynote Speaker

    Before he heads around the country on his latest tour, the Australian singer-songwriter will chat about his career at SXSW Sydney.

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    The 2024 Japanese Film Festival Program Is Here with Animation From a Studio Ghibli Alum and Chaotic Karaoke Antics

    This is the 28th year that the event has brought Japanese cinema's latest and greatest to Australia, with its 2024 lineup featuring ten new films and a free retrospective.

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    SXSW Sydney's Latest Round of 2024 Speakers Includes Lucy Lawless, Grace Tame and Tim Minchin

    Sports stars Nick Kyrgios and Noémie Fox, playwright Suzie Miller and former Bangarra Dance Theatre Artistic Director Stephen Page have also joined the festival's lineup.

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    Canadian Dramedy 'Universal Language' Has Won Melbourne International Film Festival's 2024 Bright Horizons Award

    What if Winnipeg resembled Iran in the 80s? That's just part of the absurdist film that's taken out MIFF's major award in the prize's third year.

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    Nine 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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    Cherishing a Different Type of Icelandic Filmmaking in Cinemas: Baltasar Kormákur Chats Romantic Drama 'Touch'

    There isn't a trace of Nordic Noir to be found in this tender love story, which hops between Iceland, the UK and Japan.

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    The Italian Film Festival's 2024 Program Is Filled with Award-Winners, Iconic Directors and Famous Faces

    Highlights include SFF prizewinner 'There's Still Tomorrow', the latest from 'The Great Beauty' filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino, and Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci as Cardinals electing a new Pope.

  • News

    The Huge 2024 Good Things Lineup Is Here with Korn, Sum 41, Violent Femmes and Billy Corgan

    There's no shortage of big names hitting the stage in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane when this music fest returns in December 2024.

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    SXSW Sydney 2024 Has Added a Heap of New Acts to Its 25-Stage Music Lineup — and New Speakers, Too

    More than 25 new talents have joined the bill — and Academy Award-winning composer AR Rahman will get chatting.

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    Fisher, Tinashe, Royel Otis and Flight Facilities Doing Their Decades Mix Are All on the 2024 Lost Paradise Lineup

    The Glenworth Valley event also features Marlon Hoffstadt, Sammy Virji, SG Lewis, Confidence Man, DJ Boring, Kita Alexander and more.

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    Bluesfest's First Lineup Drop for Its Farewell 2025 Festival Includes Crowded House, Ocean Alley and Vance Joy

    This Byron Bay event is saying goodbye with help from some big Down Under names, with more announcements to come.

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    Beyond The Valley Is Seeing Out 2024 with Fisher, Ice Spice, Tinashe, Sugababes and Natasha Bedingfield

    If this is your NYE plans taken care of, you'll also be catching Chase & Status, Marlon Hoffstadt, Royel Otis, Sammy Virji, AJ Tracey, Denis Sulta and more.

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    The Stage Musical Version of Festive Big-Screen Favourite 'Elf' Is Finally Making Its Australian Premiere

    The film-to-theatre Broadway hit is heading Down Under, debuting in Sydney, so that you can catch the Christmas classic onstage.

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    Coming Soon: Archie Moore's Venice Golden Lion-Winning 'Kith and Kin' Will Display at QAGOMA From August 2025

    The Australian Government has acquired the First Nations talent's award-winning exhibition, gifting it to the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art.

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    The Weeknd Has Rescheduled His Australian Tour for October 2024 — But He's Only Playing Sydney and Melbourne

    The singer's 'After Hours Til Dawn' tour was initially meant to head Down Under in 2023, but was postponed, then cancelled — and now it's back on again.

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    The Australian Version of 'The Office' Will Hit Your Streaming Queue in October — and Here's Your First Look

    As the Managing Director of Flinley Craddick, comedian Felicity Ward stars in the sitcom franchise's first series with a female lead.

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    Getting Cracking in a Killer Mystery-Comedy (and Getting Excited About Season Two): Kate Box Talks 'Deadloch'

    Just like everyone who watched the first season of the ace Aussie series from The Kates, the award-winning 'Rake' and 'Wentworth' star can't wait for more.

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    Start Looking for Clues: The Star-Studded Full 'Only Murders in the Building' Season Four Trailer Is Here

    Eugene Levy, Eva Longoria, Zach Galifianakis, Melissa McCarthy, Kumail Nanjiani, Molly Shannon and Richard Kind are the latest additions to the cast.

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    Bluesfest Is the Latest Australian Music Festival That's Calling Time, Ending with a Final Run in 2025

    When the Byron Bay event wraps up in April 2025 — its 36th year — it'll join the list of Aussie festivals saying farewell.

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    Jack White, The Offspring and St Vincent Are All Coming to Australia to Play Always Live 2024

    Across 17 huge days, Victoria's annual music program will feature 289 artists playing 65-plus events around the state.

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    Meredith's Massive 2024 Lineup Will Get You Dancing to Jamie xx, Waxahatchee and Genesis Owusu

    You'll also find Mk.gee, ZAPP, Angie McMahon, The Dare, Glass Beams and more on the bill in December when the beloved fest hosts its 32nd event.

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    The Musical Version of 'The Lord of the Rings' Is Taking the Hobbits to Australian Stages in 2025

    Middle-earth gets melodic at 'The Lord of the Rings — A Musical Tale', which is making its Aussie debut in Sydney.

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    The Full Trailer for 'Mufasa' Is Here If You Just Can't Wait for 'The Lion King' to Get a Photorealistic Prequel

    Lin-Manuel Miranda has penned tunes for Disney's latest return to the Pride Lands, which is directed by 'Moonlight' filmmaker Barry Jenkins.

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    Just Two Years After Debuting, Harvest Rock Is the Latest Australian Music Festival to Scrap Its 2024 Event

    The Adelaide music festival has postponed "to ensure that Harvest Rock continues to deliver the experience that our local, national and international fans have come to know and love into the future".

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    This Year's Melbourne Fringe Festival Sees Food and Art Combine in Hundreds of Boundary-Pushing Performances

    Whoever said you shouldn't play with your food is a fool, because these local and international artists are showing us just how fun it can be.

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    Save the Date: Vivid Sydney Will Return for Winter 2025 with a Program of Events Inspired by Dreams

    The next time that this festival dazzles the Harbour City, marking its 15th year, it'll take its cues from nighttime slumbers.

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    Winter Is Coming: 'House of the Dragon' Is Set to End Its Pre-'Game of Thrones' Tale After Season Four

    HBO already has your next stint in Westeros lined up, however, with 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' debuting in 2025.

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    HBO Has Unveiled a Sneak Peek at New 'The Last of Us', 'The White Lotus' and Its Next 'Game of Thrones' Prequel

    In the US network's latest trailer for its upcoming shows, you can also check out footage from 'IT' spinoff 'Welcome to Derry'.

  • News

    The Kid LAROI Has Locked in November Dates for His Postponed 2024 Australian Tour

    Migos frontman Quavo and Sydney's own ONEFOUR are the supports on the Australian singer-songwriter's seven-city tour.

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    How Australian Documentarians Matthew Salleh and Rose Tucker Found Slices of the American Dream in Former Pizza Huts

    The latest film by the 'Barbecue' and 'We Don’t Deserve Dogs' duo premieres at SXSW Sydney in October 2024.

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    Now Open: 'Jurassic World: The Exhibition' Is Your Latest Excuse to Indulge Your Dinosaur Obsession in Melbourne

    Life-sized versions of the film franchise's creatures have roared into Melbourne, making a patch of Brunswick feel like Isla Nublar.

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    SXSW Sydney's Festival Hub Is Returning to Tumbalong Park for 2024 with 60-Plus Hours of Free Entertainment

    This year's lineup includes Silverchair's Ben Gillies, a 60th-anniversary screening of 'The Endless Summer', a day-long showcase of Indian creativity and more.

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    'Squid Game' Season Two Will Drop on Boxing Day 2024 — and the Third and Final Season Is Set for 2025

    Your normal Christmas recovery plans are on hold this year — you'll have Netflix's savage South Korean hit to binge.

  • News

    Twelve 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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    'Parks and Recreation' and 'The Afterparty' Star Ben Schwartz Is Bringing His Live Improv Show to Australia

    He's also the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog — and he's locked in a two-city trip Down Under in 2025.

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    'Guys and Dolls' Is the Next Iconic Musical That Opera Australia Is Bringing to Sydney Harbour's Floating Stage

    The Tony-winning Broadway sensation is Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour's pick for 2025, running for a month from late March.

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    Warwick Thornton, 'The Babadook' Composer Jed Kurzel and a Pixar Director Are All Headed to SXSW Sydney 2024

    One of the producers of 'Barbie' and 'Saltburn', a session on women in VFX and animation, and stepping through the impact of screening at SXSW Austin are also on the lineup.

  • News

    The 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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    Every Soul in Middle-Earth Is in Peril in the Full Season Two 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' Trailer

    Contentious jewellery, talking and walking trees, giant spiders, Sauron's chaos: they're all in this new sneak peek at the Prime Video series.

  • News

    More Heartbreak: Spilt Milk Is the Latest Australian Music Festival That's Cancelled Its Plans for 2024

    Instead of returning to close out this year, the Canberra, Ballarat, Gold Coast and Perth fest is shifting its focus to 2025.

  • News

    Eight 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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    Must-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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