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Academy 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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Ten 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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We'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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Melbourne Is Getting a Dedicated Karaoke Festival

With dumplings, doughnuts and cash prizes.

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The 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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Melbourne Is Getting a Shit Garden Exhibition

An entire exhibition celebrating the world's outstandingly disastrous landscaping choices.

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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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Eight New Movies You Can Watch Right Now 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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Twelve 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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Twelve Movies to Put on Your Must-See List at the 2024 Sydney Film Festival

Whether you're keen on a dose of weirdness with your SFF sessions, to embrace a Sydney icon or to see award-winning flicks, there's something for you among these titles.
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Twelve Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream This Month

Spend your couch time watching a documentary about Jim Henson, an Elisabeth Moss-led spy thriller and the new season of an Aussie rom-com sitcom.
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Thirteen New Movies You Can Watch in May That Have Been Fast-Tracked From Cinemas to Streaming

Get comfy on the couch with Kirsten Dunst as a war photographer in a divided America, Dev Patel directing himself in an action-packed revenge thriller and Kristen Stewart turning heartthrob.
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Spectacular Autumn Events For Culture Vultures Seeking Their Next Fix

Make sure you add these must-do events to your Sydney culture calendar.
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Eurovision Alert: Here's When and Where 2024's Song Contest Is Unleashing Its Europop Marvels

Electric Fields are representing Australia with 'One Milkali (One Blood)', which features the language Yankunytjatjara from the Anangu peoples.
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Twelve Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in April

Spend your couch time watching Andrew Scott step into Tom Ripley's shoes, a shattering docuseries about Nickelodeon's kids TV hits and Colin Farrell as a PI.
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Seven New Movies You Can Watch in April That Have Been Fast-Tracked From Cinemas to Streaming

Get comfy on the couch with Sydney Sweeney as a nun, Timothée Chalamet's return to Arrakis and a Bob Marley biopic.

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The 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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Splendour in the Grass Announces Dream-Fulfilling 2017 Lineup

After six years, LCD Soundsystem are coming back to Australia.

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Eight 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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We'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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Shia 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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The 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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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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Spanish 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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Ten 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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Client Liaison's New 'Off White Limousine' Video Stars a Disarmingly Attractive Melbourne CBD

Collins Street has never looked so good.

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St Kilda Is Getting Australia's First Pride Centre

Modelled after San Francisco’s LGBTI Community Centre, it will highlight queer culture, provide services and offer a safe gathering space.

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Five Must-See Films at the 2017 Melbourne Queer Film Festival

Start with an Australian-made queer body-swapping sci-fi fantasy parable.

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Dark Mofo Reveals First 2017 Festival Headliner

The first taste of the Tasmanian midwinter festival includes Viking-peddling experimental black metal.

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BEAST Meat Masters

Monday, July 1 - Saturday, November 30, 2024
Beast City, Melbourne

Everything served at BEAST's Meat Masters takeover series is heavy, meaty and heartburn-inducing. Bring on the food coma.
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Sweet Home Dog-abama Fourth of July Party at Moon Dog Wild West

Thursday, July 4, 2024
Moon Dog Wild West, Footscray

Moon Dog Wild West's first-ever Fourth of July party comes with live music, food and drink deals, and an all-American hot dog-eating competition.
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Palace Cinemas' $8 Movie Weekend

Saturday, June 29 - Sunday, June 30, 2024
Palace Cinemas Melbourne, Melbourne

This cinema chain is treating cinephiles to two days of super-cheap tickets, including sessions of 'Furiosa', 'A Quiet Place: Day One' and 'Inside Out 2'.

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The Finders Keepers Autumn/Winter Market

Friday, July 12 - Sunday, July 14, 2024
Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton

Support the next wave of independent artisans at this three-day art and design market that features over 270 makers, foodies and designers.

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Horizon — Bangarra Dance Theatre

Wednesday, August 28 - Saturday, September 7, 2024
Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne

The iconic Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performing arts company's first mainstage cross-cultural collaboration tells tales from across Oceania.

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Scandinavian Film Festival

Friday, July 19 - Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Select cinemas in Melbourne, Various locations

Whether you're after the latest 'Department Q' mystery or a documentary about the Norwegian wilderness, this film festival has something for you.

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Disaronno at Palace Cinemas in Melbourne

Monday, May 27 - Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Various Melbourne venues, Melbourne

Where to taste an authentic amaretto sour across Melbourne.
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Bastille Day

Saturday, July 13 - Sunday, July 14, 2024
Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne

Queen Victoria Market will be filled with buttery pastries, cooking masterclasses, live music and more to celebrate France's national day.
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Queen Victoria Market's Australian Sake Festival

Saturday, July 20 and Sunday, July 21, 2024
Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne

Take your pick from more than 200 different sakes at the Australian Sake Festival, coming to Queen Vic Market this winter.

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The Promised Land

Thursday, June 20 - Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Select cinemas in Melbourne, Various locations

More than a decade after 'A Royal Affair', Mads Mikkelsen and filmmaker Nikolaj Arcel have made another grand and gripping drama set in Denmark's past.

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St Kilda Institution The Espy Could Be Reopening Soon

It's reportedly been sold to the owners of the Garden State and Prahran Hotel.

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Vivid Sydney Announces Massive 2017 Program

AIR, Shepard Fairey, Laura Marling, lights at Barangaroo.

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Large Groups are Freaking Out SXSW Attendees to Promote 'The Handmaid's Tale'

Red-clad ladies are popping up around the Austin festival to plug Hulu's new Elisabeth Moss-starring show.

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This Visually Stunning Ballet Should Come to Australia

The production stems from a dream team of Jamie xx, Royal Ballet choreographer Wayne McGregor, Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson and novelist Jonathan Safran Foer.

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A Two-Day Food and Music Festival is Coming to Melbourne's Historic Pentridge Prison

Live tunes, market stalls and meals on wheels will help celebrate 20 years since the prison closed its doors.

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IMDB Adds New 'F for Female' Rating to Highlight Women in Film

This well-timed new feature lets you search by female director or female protagonist.

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Ten Must-See Films at the 2017 Alliance Francaise French Film Festival

See Audrey Tautou on a boat, Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp in pre-war Europe and France's equivalent of an Amy Schumer movie.

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YouTube is Bringing Live TV Streaming to All of Your Devices

The US service will allow viewers to watch live TV wherever they happen to be and enjoy unlimited recording.

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Banksy Opens Walled Off Hotel in the West Bank

Set up in secret over the last 14 months and set to open on March 11, the Bethlehem guesthouse is expected to run for a year.

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The Best of Berlinale 2017: Ten New Films We Can't Wait to Hit Australian Cinemas

We hopped over to the Berlin International Film Festival to get the jump on what's coming soon to cinemas.

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Five Formidable Recent French Films You Might Have Missed

Brush up before the Alliance French Film Festival rolls into town.

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Austrian Street Artist Nychos Unveils Colossal Mural in Sydney

It's a homage to famous Victorian painting Flaming June.

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Win Tickets to the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival 2017

Pick from over 45 formidable films, from the Audrey Tatou-starring Jacques Cousteau biopic to Venice Film Festival highlight Planetarium.

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Vivid Sydney Announces Fleet Foxes as First Artist on 2017 Program

Five years after their last Australian tour, the American folk-rock band will play four exclusive shows at the Sydney Opera House.

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Oscar Winners 2017: The Full List from Moonlight to Suicide Squad

Who took home the gold?

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Why La La Land Shouldn't Win Best Original Score at This Year's Academy Awards

And why you should care about the oft-forgotten Oscars category.

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NGV Announces Most Ambitious Summer Blockbuster Exhibition to Date: The NGV Triennial

Featuring over 60 artists from around the world, including Yayoi Kusama, Adel Abidin, Guo Pei and more.

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Concrete Playground's Annual Oscars Drinking Game: The 2017 Edition

The only way to get through the 89th Academy Awards in one piece.

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New App Choovie Aims to Bring Fluid Ticket Pricing to Australian Cinemas

If cinemas jump on board, audiences will drive demand — and, by extension, how much they pay at the door.

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Batman v Superman Cleans Up at the 37th Annual Razzie Awards

The superhero showdown took home four awards, but missed out on worst film of the year.

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London Could Be Getting a Permanent Public David Bowie Memorial

A crowdfunding campaign has been launched for a three-storey monument to the entertainment icon.

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Australia's Village Roadshow Is Seeking to Block 41 Additional Piracy Sites

After successfully blocking The Pirate Bay last year, the film company is expanding their efforts.

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Secret Garden Festival Hosted Its First Ever Real Legally-Binding Wedding

Music and matrimony combined, complete with Peter Pan-themed vows and a confetti cannon.

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Studio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki Is Officially Coming Out of Retirement

The acclaimed animator is currently preparing to make his next full-length film.

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