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Ian Darling's The Valley, which will make its world premiere at Sydney Film Festival in June, is about silence and solitude in a rural community.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (10 hours ago)

Kanye West has dropped his new album, Bully, a conciliatory departure after years of provocative and offensive behaviour.

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The conservationist and TV personality says doctors dismissed her pain as "part of being a woman” – now she's urging "everyone to remember this invisible disease”.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (18 hours ago)

Baby Reindeer's Richard Gadd is back with an interesting new drama. Plus: Anne Edmonds and Kitty Flanagan team up for laughs on the ABC.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (19 hours ago)

Alea O'Shea, 25, has undergone surgery amid an "ongoing fight” against brain cancer while her family seeks funds to pay for treatment.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (21 hours ago)

The Canadian superstar has been sidelined for four years but has now announced new shows while delivering an update on her health.

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The Duchess of Sussex, who will soon visit Australia, has her fans, but she also attracts detractors. What makes her so polarising?

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The AFL has finally landed its number one pick in the entertainment draft, with the homegrown superstar set to light up that one day in September.

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BTS made K-pop a global phenomenon then took a four-year break. Now they're back with a new album, global tour and Netflix doco – but the world has changed.

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The incident that led to the axing of Taylor Frankie Paul's season of The Bachelorette was public knowledge before the video emerged. But seeing the footage was a different story.

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An immersive show at Melbourne Museum uses the latest technology alongside 2000-year-old antiquities to take visitors back in time.

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From a nose-to-nose close-up scene with Michael J Fox's Marty McFly, the late star's disdain for slackers etched itself into the minds of a generation.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (3 days ago)

The leading man of You, Me & Tuscany says every movie is, at its heart, a love story.

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The Teatro's fabulous new production leads this round-up of all the reviews that matter.

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Although this tour was billed as "all living members, together for the final time”, four members were absent, without explanation.

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It's the one certainty in life, yet discussing death is still often considered macabre or depressing. This artist wants to change that.

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Miranda Otto's earlier outings for Sydney Theatre Company have been at huge milestones in her life – and now she's back.

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There are ghost-writers in the machine, and it's getting uncomfortable.

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The most influential pop star of the 21st century became a single mother through IVF – and then made an album about it.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (4 days ago)

More than 570 entries flooded into the Art Gallery of NSW on the final day of entries for three contemporary art prizes.

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The Perth writer's books celebrate 20th-century women who've done incredible things and promptly been forgotten – and it's earned her a global readership.

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The author's new work auto-fiction reflects on her lifelong friendship with the late writer Gabrielle Carey

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (5 days ago)

Our reviewers cast their eyes over recent fiction and non-fiction releases.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (5 days ago)

The Nanette comedian is back with a Saturday Night Live-style talk show wrapped in a stand-up set and an existential crisis.

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The pop superstar and her fiance made their awards debut as a couple at the ceremony in LA – and they had plenty to smile about.

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From the viral charm of Jury Duty to the cringe-comedy of Bait, Deputy TV Editor Meg Watson explores why we love watching people get played for laughs.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (5 days ago)

From the viral charm of Jury Duty to the cringe-comedy of Bait, Deputy TV Editor Meg Watson explores why we love watching people get played for laughs.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (5 days ago)

From deep hypotheticals to the horrors of corporate speak, this year's comedy festival is in full swing. Keep an eye on our ever-growing list of reviews here.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (5 days ago)

How Aussie novelist Natasha Lester found a global audience.

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Controversial broadcaster Kyle Sandilands arrives at the Federal Court in Sydney for his first hearing against KIIS-owner ARN over the termination of his $100 million contract.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (5 days ago)

April Harper Grey, better known as Underscores, is pop's new avant-garde genius.

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Robyn dives into IVF, motherhood and middle-aged sex on her audacious new album.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (5 days ago)

While Justin Timberlake played it safe with R&B, JC Chasez's Schizophrenic was a fearless, genre-bending masterpiece that was simply too weird for 2004.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (6 days ago)

The author of The Dressmaker has written a book about ageing, which she gleefully says cannot be done gracefully.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (6 days ago)

A new biography of the legendary author of teen realism has Simmone Howell indulging in casual bibliomancy

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The artists reflect on their fated meeting, navigating difference and being 'like children' when they create (credit: Wolter Peeters; The National Gallery of Australia).

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (6 days ago)

The new teaser trailer has given fans hope that key parts of the novels will find new life in HBO Max's upcoming series.

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Media writer Calum Jaspan tells Samantha Selinger-Morris, host of The Morning Edition podcast, that Kyle and Jackie O's split could be detrimental to radio in Australia.

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If Jim Jarmusch can be said to have anything as brazenly branded as a catchphrase, it would have to be this.

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Alyla Browne hasn't even started her final year of school, but she's doing her own underwater stunts.

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HBO has released the first trailer for its much-anticipated Harry Potter series, set to premiere this Christmas.

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The teaser shows HBO's reboot of J.K. Rowling's first book, The Philosopher's Stone – and we will be able to see it earlier than anticipated.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (6 days ago)

From action classics to musical rom-coms, these are the underseen and the misjudged movies ripe for rediscovery.

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The new season swaps the courtroom for a company retreat as it attempts to re-create the outlandish experience of season one.

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Historically scaled performance returns intimacy to the concert hall.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (6 days ago)

The artists reflect on their fated meeting, navigating difference and being 'like children' when they create.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (6 days ago)

MAFS' John Aiken's video tribute to Mel Schilling.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (A week ago)

Welcome to our weekly wrap of what's new in cinemas.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (A week ago)

This year's laugh fest has kicked off, with more than 2000 performers stepping up to the mic. Here, our writers take a closer look

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The action in Alan Fyfe's novel takes place in one night, but is epic, in the true sense of the word.

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Biographer Scott Eyman reveals that there was much more to the star than what we think we know from Mommie Dearest and the Bette Davis "feuds”.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (A week ago)

Don't miss Riz Ahmed taking on the "brown Bond” debate. Plus, the return of a Marvel superhero, Peaky Blinders' next chapter and more Interview with the Vampire.

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School's out in this third and final season of the phenomenally successful reboot of the '90s classic.

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At 72, Goldblum seems less an actor or musician these days than a meme in the original sense: a kind of agreed cultural constant.

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The British comedian talks weather, politics and Australia's "weird prehistoric animals” ahead of her show at this year's Comedy Festival.

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What can you expect to see while staff are taking industrial action? In short, a lot of news from the BBC and plenty of reruns.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (A week ago)

When the ABC journalist made headlines for quitting social media in 2021, he was, in many ways, ahead of the game.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (A week ago)

Schilling, who has died aged 54, is being remembered as a guiding force and a loving, committed and loyal mother, wife and co-worker.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (A week ago)

The streaming giant has released a teaser for the upcoming season of the popular regency romance, which will include the show's first same-sex love story.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (A week ago)

Tayari Jones' new novel examines the question of kinship – the kin you are born to and the kin you create.

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Our city's legendary pubs gave the likes of AC/DC and Midnight Oil their start – now young artists are forging a new path in a very different live music scene.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (A week ago)

Bette Davis and Joan Crawford clung to their bitter quarrel until Crawford's death.

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The Spanish-born choreographer and Kylie Minogue collaborator joined SDC in 2008 and has taken its work to the global dance stage.

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The psychologist's husband revealed the news of her death on Tuesday night. "She was our wee Melsie: an incredible mum, role model, and soulmate.”

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (A week ago)

After a masterclass performance in Norway, Delta Goodrem has vaulted into the top five, as the hunt for Australia's first Eurovision gold intensifies.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (A week ago)

The 19-year-old is making her movie debut in the live action remake of Disney's much loved animation.

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Much like other awkward Kiwi comedies, Small Town Scandal will be an acquired taste, but it's worth sticking with.

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The American actor can be seen appearing to strike a man several times, as his two children watch while seated on motorbikes nearby.

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The recent appetite for creature features reflects our long-held fascination with monstrous love.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (A week ago)

Ritchson can be seen punching a man several times while the actor's children watch nearby. (TMZ/Backgrid)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (A week ago)

The Irish actor deactivated his Instagram account in 2024 – now he has explained why.

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Shot in a painted set of Paris, Margot Robbie and Kylie Minogue feature in an ad for the luxury brand Chanel directed by legendary music video director Michel Gondry.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (A week ago)

Denise Scott has been doing comedy a long time. And finally, she got to host the Melbourne International Comedy Festival gala. She's also launched the festival's 40th year.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (A week ago)

Kala Gare is playing the rebellious protagonist in My Brilliant Career. After calling out audience members for "groping” last year, her character's courage resonates.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (A week ago)

The online payment platform has announced it is temporarily relaxing their refund rules to help some ticket holders recoup the money they spent before the festival was unexpectedly cancelled.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (A week ago)

A Reuters investigation claims to have "revealed” the elusive artist's identity, but Banksy's anonymity is the reason his works garner such excitement.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (A week ago)

More than 50 artworks were received in the first hour after the dock of the Art Gallery of NSW opened to entries for the Archibald, Sulman and Wynne prizes.

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The actor's casting triggered a race-fuelled backlash online, with some arguing a black actor should not play a character originally written as white.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (A week ago)

A member of the star's security team was accused of confronting a young girl and her mum at a Sao Paolo hotel.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (A week ago)

A quaver of Brit self-deprecation ran through the debut episode, which was hosted by Tina Fey and stacked with celebrities.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (A week ago)

The singer has responded to allegations that a member of her security team confronted a young fan and her mum in a São Paulo hotel.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (A week ago)

Kath Duncan draws on her own experience for her play, Specials. "I hated it,” she says. "It was a torture chamber.”

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (A week ago)

She brought us a key part of the Olympics opening ceremony and the Welcome to Country. Journalist, actor, theatre maker and activist Rhoda Roberts made a mark.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Video of recording artist Justin Timberlake was released Friday by Sag Harbor Police after the village and Timberlake's lawyers agreed to disclose a redacted version of the footage.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Chloé Zhao is now one of the world's top film directors. But she is also both exceptional and relatable, with a gleaming poetic energy, and I hope we hear more from her.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Our language teems with these close cousins, like wiggle or wriggle room.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

He's supposed to be dealing with listeners' quandaries but on Ill-Advised by Bill Nighy we learn a lot about the English actor himself. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

The actor has won hearts playing complex, loving mothers, but it was the role of an empty-nester that hit the hardest.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Family franchise sequels, buzzy horror counter-programming, stars getting their arthouse groove on, and blockbusters expected to gross $1 billion are all on the schedule.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Breakfast TV budgie smuggler Karl Stefanovic is recasting himself as a culture warrior. Is his new podcast the evolution of a digital brand, or an exit strategy?

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Chuck Norris, the martial arts grandmaster and action star whose roles in "Walker, Texas Ranger” and other television shows and movies made him an iconic tough guy, died suddenly, his family announced.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Our reviewers cast their eyes over new fiction and non-fiction releases.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Confusion and anger has followed the news that the 2026 festival is off and the companies behind it are in liquidation. But Bluesfest chief Peter Noble has yet to respond.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

The DJ's alleged comments prompted widespread condemnation and a police inquiry – now the nation's largest festival has moved to repair the damage.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

The shock jock has loudly complained about how he's been treated since he was forced from his golden microphone. Now he might stop to think about how he's treated others over the years.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

He's best known for his work in sci-fi, but the eldest Hemsworth brother always dreamt of being in a comedy.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Bachelorette Taylor Frankie Paul, who came to fame in The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, is seen allegedly hurling a stool at her former partner.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Opening at Heide tomorrow, we take a first look at the largest survey of John Perceval's work to be staged since the early '90s.

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A Far-Flung Life is cut from a similar cloth from Stedman's bestselling debut The Light Between Oceans

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The festival, which is set to celebrate its 40th anniversary, will welcome the former New Zealand prime minister as well as a number of decorated authors.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Recent works of speculative fiction collectively capture our current preoccupations with technology, climate, authoritarianism and moral uncertainty.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Lisa Moule's novel circles the lives of four women navigating the emotional and psychological tumult of the school playground.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

The Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist has realised a childhood dream with his new trumpet album, Honora.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Anna Lapwood has become one of the best recognised classical musicians of her generation playing one of the most unlikely instruments.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Kala Gare's exceptional turn as Sybylla in My Brilliant Career leads this round-up of all the latest shows around the city.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Watch the full trailer for the new season of The Bachelorette starring Taylor Frankie Paul, premiering March 23 on Stan.

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A new Australian horror movie has landed – and, like many of the hit local horrors before it, the film was brought to life by a team of women.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Anthology Love celebrates love in all its guises and permutations, and a debut collection whole reflects on the lasting effects of colonialism through playful poetry.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Loved Run Away earlier this year? Here's what you should watch next.

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The decision to include a version of the late actor in a film marks one of the boldest uses yet of artificial intelligence in movie-making.

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The Australian actor has played Lord John Grey for eight years in the hit time-travelling Scottish drama.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney wanted to get their smash-hit crime-comedy just right – because they're not sure they'll go there again.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Sydney's summer art blockbusters include the master of a smiling flower, and a celebrated French "exhibition producer” who once floated gold helium balloons in the Guggenheim.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

The Emmy-nominated crime comedy swaps Tasmania for the Top End as it tackles racial politics, with bonus crocodiles.

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Adapted from the beloved The Faraway Tree series of novels for children, The Magic Faraway Tree follows Polly and Tim and their children Beth, Joe and Fran – a modern family who find themselves forced to relocate to the remote English countryside.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

The Australian actor knows what the fans want - but will they get it in the final season?

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I love Buffy the Vampire Slayer – and that's why I'm glad this revival had a stake run through its heart.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Welcome to our weekly wrap of what's new in cinemas.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Anthology Love celebrates love in all its guises and permutations, and a debut collection whole reflects on the lasting effects of colonialism through playful poetry.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

If they'd had social media in the interwar years, poet Ezra Pound would have had a huge following – and he'd also have been cancelled dozens of times

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The writer's back catalogue is like AI fiction a century before such a thing was imaginable.

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A new exhibition highlights how the sari has been reinvented, reshaping how it is understood and worn, and what it says about modern India.

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Aleks Krotoski's The Immortalists is a gory, slice-by-slice dissection of these wealthy maniacs' obsession with the promise of eternal life. It's like a train wreck.

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The creator of Yellowstone has delivered a drama that is magical realism for traditional conservatives, with added fly-fishing.

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High-flying venture capitalist Amy Griffin wrote a memoir about the sexual abuse she endured at school – now she is being sued by a former classmate.

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Featuring works by contemporary and historical Australian and First Nations artists, alongside international art, MOTHER at the NGV explores both universal and specific experiences of motherhood.

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New songs and the reprise of a one-woman stage show realise the last creative risks of a rock legend.

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Wunmi Mosaku reveals Michael B Jordan's trick to playing both Smoke and Stack in Sinners on The Kelly Clarkson Show.

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The Dune star has addressed the flurry of speculation about her relationship with Tom Holland, sparked by comments from her stylist a few weeks ago.

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At an exclusive LA screening of the new trailer, the filmmaker promised a "dense” and "action-packed” conclusion to the Dune trilogy.

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The KIIS FM shock jock spoke about the looming deadline as he waits to hear about the future of his radio job.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Bluesfest set perilously high standards for itself, which is probably why, in the end, it burnt out instead of fading away.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

The KIIS FM shock jock spoke about the looming deadline as he waits to hear about the future of his radio job.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

From newly minted Oscar winner Michael B. Jordan to Lindsay Lohan, individual actors have been playing double duty on screen for years.

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Just days after its opening, the Biennale of Sydney has been rocked by the loss of a major supporter, while NSW Police have been called on to investigate alleged hate speech.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

How Courtney Love's good girl accomplice watched the 1990s go bad.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

How Courtney Love's good girl accomplice watched the 1990s go bad.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

It may not have been the night for Australian talent at the 2026 Oscars, but there are a few locals who were able to at least touch a golden statuette.

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Guitarist, songwriter and vocalist Bernie Lynch was remembered by his bandmate Grace Knight in an emotional social media post.

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The "vertical TV” revolution is moving from phone soaps featuring billionaire brides to Sydney's sunny Eastern suburbs.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Sinners, One Battle After Another and even Hamnet speak to the big issues of our times. But at the Academy Awards, the people who made them didn't.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

It was one loss after another for Australia's five nominees while Autumn Durald Arkapaw made history as both the first woman and first woman of colour to win the best cinematography category.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Michael B. Jordan took out the best actor award for his role in Sinners while Jessie Buckley won the best actress Oscar for Hamnet. (Footage: Seven)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Can You Keep a Secret? has just enough emotional ballast to make the daftness buoyant.

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The British star acted as the voiceover man for the awards. (Footage: Seven)

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The New Zealand costume designer reflects on the opportunity to work with director Guillermo del Toro. (Video courtesy of A.M.P.A.S. © 2026)

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The pair offered a bit of a tease of the upcoming Devil Wears Prada sequel as they presented the award. (Footage: Seven)

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No one was safe in O'Brien's intro of best picture nominations. (Footage: Seven)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

The Oscars host had the audience in stitches with a pointed dig. (Footage: Seven)

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Rose Byrne's If I had Legs I'd Kick You co-star Conan O'Brien pokes fun at his role in the film during his opening monologue. (Footage: Seven)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

The Australian star reveals how she found out she was nominated for an Academy Award.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Yellowstone star Luke Grimes recalls run-in with locals after moving to Montana from LA on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

There was no joy for the Australian nominees at this year's Academy Awards, but big strides were made for gender equality.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Timothée Chalamet's comments about opera and ballet a week before the Oscars, although controversial, will not be what stops him winning the Oscar says Karl Quinn and Nell Geraets on The Morning Edition podcast.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Hamnet is about the universality of grief, but it also has something to say about the transformative power of creativity says Karl Quinn on The Morning Edition podcast.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Twin gangsters return to Mississippi to open a juke joint during the Jim Crow era, but the place gets overrun by vampires. There are metaphors everywhere in this film says Nell Geraets on The Morning Edition podcast.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Timothée Chalamet's comments about opera and ballet a week before the Oscars, although controversial, will not be what stops him winning the Oscar says Karl Quinn on The Morning Edition podcast.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Love, loss and duty collide in this genre-bending production of Eighteen Lives.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

Alongside founder, Ian "Lemmy” Kilmister, who died in 2015, Campbell was the heavy metal band's longest-serving member.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Culture (2 weeks ago)

The contribution of casting directors to great films has been sidelined for decades – this year their work will be recognised at the Academy Awards.

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