What’s on
The 800-year-old sport that could be the next pickleball
Real tennis, Henry VIII’s favourite sport, is playable at only 50 courts worldwide, now including one in Sydney. Here’s how you can have a hit.
- Penry Buckley
Latest
- ★★★
- Review
Iraq war film feels like the real thing … until it doesn’t
Directors Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza base Warfare on an incident that involved a Navy SEAL platoon in 2006.
- Jake Wilson
- ★★★★
- Review
Richard Roxburgh’s nervy intensity works in a film about despair in an Egyptian prison
The Rake star plays jailed journalist Peter Greste in The Correspondent.
- Sandra Hall
Meet the 22-year-old farmers entering this 125-year-old competition
Cousins Luke Leys and James Alexandrou are the fourth generation in their family to work on the Sydney Royal Easter Show regional displays.
- Frances Howe
Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega star in this film that isn’t for viewers with weak stomachs
Death of a Unicorn is the good-taste version of an innately bad-taste idea – and should satisfy fans of both arthouse and horror.
- Jake Wilson
- ★★★★½
- Review
This dazzling Mel Brooks revival is near perfect
Our critics take in the latest performances around town.
- John Shand, Peter McCallum and Kate Prendergast
What can this thriller about a secret hidden in a barn teach us about ourselves?
Low-budget thriller In Vitro raises interesting questions – but ultimately doesn’t answer enough of them.
- Sandra Hall
If this film is too successful, it could destroy the very thing it’s documenting
Gentle documentary, The Cats of Gokogu Shrine, invites us into a quiet world populated by stray cats.
- Jake Wilson
First-timer has a fresh take on Shakespeare’s ‘badass’ king
Liam Gamble brings a unique take on Richard III as part of Sport for Jove’s cycle of history plays.
- John Shand
Endangered Australian sea lion pup born at Taronga
The birth of one of Australia’s rarest marine predators has injected critical genetic diversity into the zoo’s captive insurance population.
- Angus Dalton
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