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Paris Hilton is House of Wax!

Critics despised this 2000s film. Real fans know the truth

It was nominated for worst picture at the Razzies and now has a 27 per cent score on Rotten Tomatoes, but this is the people’s horror movie.

  • Tom W Clarke

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The Sex Pistols have reunited for the first time in two decades.

The Sex Pistols return to Melbourne in a tour Johnny Rotten describes as ‘karaoke’

The band is (somewhat) back together for the first time in two decades – but what is a Sex Pistols gig like without John Lyndon, aka Johnny Rotten?

  • Will Cox, Jessica Nicholas and Andrew Fuhrmann
Comedian David Quirk

One of the best shows at this festival is being performed above a sports bar. Don’t miss it.

From a show that is “workplace comedy at its best” to a return to the hellmouth, here are our latest reviews.

  • Cher Tan, Donna Demaio, Hannah Francis, Lefa Singleton Norton, Sonia Nair, Tyson Wray and Vyshnavee Wijekumar
Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega in a scene from Death of a Unicorn

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

Millennials, mums and an Australian mermaid: eight new books

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

  • Cameron Woodhead and Fiona Capp
Ava (Hannah Einbinder) and Deborah (Jean Smart) return for the fourth season of Hacks.

Hacks returns with a new setting but the same razor-sharp satire

Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder return with an all-new (but still toxic) dynamic as they take on late-night TV.

  • Kylie Northover
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Debut author Sophie Quick

This sharp satire features a conwoman you can empathise with

The anti-heroine in Sophie Quick’s debut novel scams people just enough to get by – because she’s a single mother with no support.

  • Jessie Tu
Spotify was meant to be the key to unlocking the world’s music, to unleashing creativity. It’s anything but.

‘Streaming as surveillance’: How Spotify is poisoning music in the digital age

In Mood Machine, American music journalist Liz Pelly outlines the story of the music streaming giant’s conquest of streaming.

  • Michael Dwyer
When Penrose publishes it is not out of any professional obligation, only because he has something worth saying.

The genius physicist whose work was inspired by Escher

Roger Penrose, a mathematician and physicist, is still working at age 93.

  • Pat Sheil
Colum McCann did extensive due diligence for the writing of Apeirogon.

A poetic thriller about humanity and connection in the internet age

Colum McCann’s new novel is, as its title suggests, a twisty literary thriller that breaks the rules.

  • Peter Craven

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