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News15th-Century Dutch Church Converted to Epic Bookstore
This must be one of the world's most gorgeous bookstores.
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NewsChristos Tsiolkas Wants You to Fail
Australian author Christos Tsiolkas is back another novel Barracuda sure to get the nation talking.
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NewsWin Tickets to The Counselor
Ridley Scott directs an all-star cast in the first original screenplay from Cormac McCarthy.
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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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NewsFind Out What Each Country Leads the World In via Handy Map
We are world leaders in deadly animals and melanoma. Hooray!
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NewsWin Lena Dunham’s Tiny Furniture on DVD
Enter for a chance to win this film made by the creator of Girls.
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NewsSydney Festival Announces Full Program for 2014
Look out for a much bigger festival garden, the return of music venue Paradiso at Town Hall and everyone's favourite duck, and a version of Stonehenge that you can bounce on.
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News#Mamming Is an Actually Good, Funny Campaign for Breast Cancer Awareness
The latest Instagram sensation embraces the awkwardness of mammograms.
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NewsZombies Attacked and I Am Glad They Did: A Day in Zedtown
We report from the ground at the (Fun)Day of the Dead, Zedtown.
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NewsWin Tickets to See Blancanieves
Director Pablo Berger’s retelling of the Grimm Brothers' Snow White story is generating a lot of buzz right now.
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NewsTake Remote Control of the Melbourne Tourist Experience
Control and watch the real experience of two tourists in the Victorian cultural hive.
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NewsTry Banana Bread and Espresso Butter Beer from 4 Pines and Single Origin
It's Up & Go for beer enthusiasts.
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NewsMeet the Company Turning a Phone Call Into a 24-Hour Work of Art
A conversation with conversation maestros the Nature Theater of Oklahoma.
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NewsWin Tickets to See Patrick and a DVD Prize Pack
A remake of the cult classic Ausploitation horror film about a comatose patient.
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NewsThe Pop Up Bar 14km Out at Sea
Kraken Rum is giving bartenders a chance to mix it up at an frighteningly unique bar - 9 miles out to sea.
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NewsSnap Your City and Win a Calvin Klein Downtown Prize Pack
Calvin Klein rewards your creativity with a delightful deluge of the new fragrance Downtown.
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NewsUniqlo to Open First Australian Store
Heattech underwear, Ultra Light Down and bold design collaborations are on their way to Melbourne's Emporium.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Actor and Doku Rai Director Thomas M. Wright
The Top of the Lake actor worked with creatives in Timor-Leste for a thrilling new work.
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NewsWin Tickets to the Lavazza Italian Film Festival 2013
In the face of the increasing cynicism and self-self-self-referentialness of art, thank god for the Italians.
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NewsDevastating and Beautiful Animated Ad Will Turn You Off Factory Farming
An ad for a popular fast food chain that might just make you cry.
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NewsA Synesthete Maps the London Underground
Ever wondered what the names of stations taste like as they roll off the tongue?
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NewsYour 2013 National Young Writers’ Festival Planner
With the festival turning sweet sixteen, you better bring your best party dress.
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NewsTake a Tour of Burning Man on the Back of a Drone
Perhaps it's true you can only understand the festival if you've been. But this gets you pretty close.
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NewsWin Tickets to See Stories We Tell
We all have a family story to tell, but we can't all tell it like Sarah Polley.
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NewsThe Unexpected Poetry of Google Autocomplete
Autocomplete results are often unintentionally hilarious and weirdly sad - but are they also art?
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NewsBoozing Now Acceptable at Breakfast Thanks to Spreadable Beer
An Italian duo have done their bit to make the world a better place, engineering a chocolate-flavoured beer spread.
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NewsLuxury Hotels in Weird and Wonderful Places Around the World
Here are 10 of Smith’s most interesting places to pass a night, picked just for Concrete Playground.
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NewsWin Tickets to See Blue Jasmine
Cate Blanchett's compelling work lights up one of Woody Allen's darkest films.
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NewsThe Lifted Brow Goes Subcompact on Your Ass
The Lifted Brow brings this lightweight publishing style to Australia.
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NewsWin a Stoker Prize Pack
Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska and Jacki Weaver unexpectedly star in a violent neo-gothic Bildungsroman from a master of style.
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NewsKickstarter Coming to Australia and New Zealand
Nothing has quite transformed the 'crowd funding' story like Kickstarter.
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NewsAvocado Beer Is a Possibly Delicious Invention
An LA brewery has created a guacamole-inspired beer to celebrate the beginning of avocado season in California.
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NewsSocks Infused with Coffee Cure Smelly Feet
For feet so sweet you can wear the same pair of socks for days.
