March
Spurned, slighted, rejected: Oscar snubs critics will never get over
There are some movies and artists that memorably – and some would say outrageously – got the brush off from the academy.
- Brooks Barnes
August 2023
This film is packed full of stars, so why does it fail to shine?
It seems half of Hollywood has lined up to be in Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, but it’s anyone’s guess what his tale-within-a-tale is trying to tell us.
- John McDonald
June 2022
- Exclusive
- Life & Leisure
The secrets behind the soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis’
It was in 2017 that the director first asked Australian composer Elliott Wheeler to listen to some of the King’s albums with him...
- Steve Meacham
December 2021
SNL drops audience, theatres go dark as latest wave hits NYC
The sketch comedy show announced on social media that the year’s final episode, featuring ‘Ant-Man’ star Paul Rudd as host, would tape without a live audience.
- Mallika Sen
October 2020
Quarantine exemptions limited to a 'privileged group' as others suffer
NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard lectured Queensland about compassion on Friday. But this Sydney resident has experienced little of that in hotel quarantine.
- Fiona Carruthers, Finbar O'Mallon and Mark Ludlow
May 2020
Michael Cassel survived COVID-19, now he's trying to revive theatre
A personal fight with COVID-19 has given the man entrusted with Harry Potter and Hamilton a unique perspective on the challenges facing live entertainment.
- Andrew Burke
March 2020
- Opinion
- Satire
Spend your self-isolation time with Tom Hanks. Or maybe not ...
There is nothing more uplifting than the films of Hollywood's Everyman. But perhaps not when there is a virus around.
- Rowan Dean
Why some of Australia's most expensive office suites are empty
The coronavirus outbreak is disrupting life across corporate Australia.
- Edmund Tadros
Tom Hanks tests positive to virus, halting Baz Luhrmann's Elvis film
Pre-production of Baz Luhrmann's biopic about Elvis Presley has been halted on Queensland's Gold Coast.
- Max Mason
Bell Potter's Les Owen tests positive to coronavirus
The case hurriedly shut down the stockbroker's headquarters at Sydney’s 88 Phillip Street on Thursday morning.
- Joe Aston
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
We're not ahead of this crisis but behind
The government says it is following the best medical advice on how to deal with the coronavirus. But what if that medical advice is wrong, wrong, wrong?
- Jennifer Hewett
Nine Sydney office in virus scare; host quarantined
Nine confirmed a small number of staff who had contact with Rita Wilson, the wife of actor Tom Hanks, have been sent home for self isolation.
- Max Mason
Local cases top 150, travel ban on Europe considered
COVID-19 has spread to every state and territory in Australia, as the number of cases inches towards 150.
- Bo Seo and Tom McIlroy
January 2020
Tom Hanks' Oscar-worthy turn may be heartwarming but it's also creepy
This could have been the corniest movie ever made, instead it's a complex portrait of extreme self-control being its own form of madness.
- John McDonald
The real reason for the Oscar snubs
With the exception of Greta Gerwig's Little Women, the films being honoured this year are eerily similar in style and substance.
- Ann Hornaday