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“Putricia” the corpse flower is blooming.

Sydney’s long-awaited, foul-smelling ‘corpse flower’ is finally blooming

Visitors are invited to come to smell the corpse flower’s rotten perfume during extended opening hours at the botanic garden before the flower withers and dies.

  • Frances Howe and Angus Dalton

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Amy Adams in Nightbitch.

I think we’re meant to feel rage, but Nightbitch left me howling with laughter

Is it drama, black comedy, satire, body horror?

  • Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
Laszlo Toth (Adrien Brody) and his wife Erzsebet (Felicity Jones) in The Brutalist.

Despite all the awards buzz, is The Brutalist actually any good?

In an industry which ranks familiarity as its favourite selling point how do you peddle a script so original that it defies comparison?

  • Sandra Hall
Nusra Latif Qureshi’s “Descriptions of past II” (2001).

This exhibition proves that bigger isn’t better when it comes to art

There are whole worlds in these paintings so often reductively characterised as “miniature”.

  • Neha Kale
Magic Beach

Beloved children’s book Magic Beach comes to life in this gentle film

Bringing together illustration, live-action and the work of 10 different animators, this film is a tender tribute to the childhood joys of the Australian seaside.

  • Sandra Hall
Colman Domingo, left, and Clarence Maclin in a scene from Sing Sing.

You’ll be moved by this prison drama about a drama staged in a prison

The supporting cast of Sing Sing includes many former inmates from the notorious jail.

  • Jake Wilson
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Ewan Leslie (left) Brendan Cowell (centre) and Toby Schmitz (right) at Carriageworks where they will perform their show ‘Hamlet Camp’ they are currently writing. Eveleigh, NSW. December 4, 2024. Photo: Kate Geraghty

Obsessed: Three stars who are all haunted by theatre’s greatest role

Letting go of Hamlet is far from easy for Brendan Cowell, Ewen Leslie and Toby Schmitz.

  • John Shand
Chief Scientist Brett Summerell at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney with the rare corpse flower set to bloom next week.

Rotting flesh, wet socks: Sydney’s most putrid flower is preparing to bloom

The “giant deformed penis”, belying the smell of death, is actually beginning a new generation.

  • Frances Howe
P. J. Harvey later set her poems to music.

PJ Harvey is more keenly aware than ever of the toll art can take

The musician spent eight years working on the world of her latest album, I Inside the Old Year Dying.

  • Michael Dwyer
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There are guns and cowboy hats, but this western goes places you’d never expect

Tue Biering has used a childhood love of westerns to explore more profound issues of colonisation and struggles for power.

  • John Shand

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