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James WigneyHit.TV Editor/Scene editor

James Wigney is the editor of the Hit.TV and Scene entertainment liftouts in the Herald Sun and Sunday Herald sun and has been writing about film, music, television and comedy for more than two decades. In that time he has interviewed some of the biggest names in the entertainment world – from Pink Floyd and Pink to Harrison Ford and Jennifer Lawrence – and been behind the scenes on Marvel and James Bond films and backstage with Coldplay and U2. He’s also a pop culture tragic, with a particular interest in sci-fi, and very broad musical tastes (and a particular soft spot for classic rock).

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Scene from the Foxtel drama My Brilliant Friend. From left, Elisa Del Genio (young Elena) & Ludovica Nasti (young Lila)_Photo by Eduardo Castaldo

Why these girls are the best child actors of 2018

Elisa Del Genio and Ludovica Nasti have the toughest acting job of 2018 — anchoring the early episodes of the TV version of Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend — and they are stunning.

Entertainment

Adapted from Deborah Harkness best-selling trilogy of novels, A Discovery of Witches is a bold and romantic thriller that uncovers a secret underworld of extraordinary beings hiding in plain sight for fear of persecution by humans they are vampires, witches and daemons. Brilliant historian Diana Bishop is a witch denying her own heritage. But when she unexpectedly calls up an ancient, bewitched manuscript from Oxfords Bodleian library, one that was thought by the creatures to be lost and could answer the mysteries of their existence, she finds herself thrown into the heart of a dangerous mystery and into the path of the enigmatic geneticist and vampire Matthew Clairmont. Matthew is driven to solve the looming threat of the creatures decline and extinction, but their unlikely alliance to find the book before it falls into the wrong hands and their deepening relationship threatens to violate age-old taboos and shake the fragile peace that exists between the species. Starring: Pino Maiello, Alex Kingston, Valarie Pettiford.

Teresa Palmer’s bewitching new role

Aussie star Teresa Palmer tells all about pregnancy number three — it’s a girl — and going supernatural for her hit television show, A Discovery of Witches.

Entertainment

Eddie Redmayne and Katherine Waterston in a scene from the movie Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Warner Bros/Roadshow Pictures.

Gay Dumbledore welcome storyline for Fantastic Beasts star

Katherine Waterson has shot to stardom thanks to her role in the Harry Potter spin off series, Fantastic Beasts, and while the cast is in the dark on the storylines, she’s embraced the inclusive message.

ReviewMovies

JOURNEY'S END 2017 Fluidity Films production with Sam ClafinJourney's End is a British film adaptation of the play Journey's End by R. C. Sherriff. Written by Simon Reade and directed by Saul Dibb

Movie explores impact of war on soldiers

THIS World War I drama focuses on a small group of British soldiers holed up in the trenches during the final phases of the slaughter. We might have seen this story before — or variations on it — but Saul Dibb’s masterful retelling feels shockingly fresh.

ReviewMovies

Dakota Johnson as Susie stars in Suspiria

Johnson stuns as a dancer in new movie thriller

DAKOTA Johnson, the 29-year-old daughter of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson, is making a habit out of upsetting industry expectations. Her new movie Suspiria is proof of that.

New Movies

Camilla Salander (Sylvia Hoeks) in Columbia Picture's THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB

Hoeks seduced by the dark side

DUTCH model turned actor Sylvia Hoeks dug deep into some dark, real-life cases to play Lisbeth Salander’s traumatised twin in The Girl In the Spider’s Web.

Movies

Rami Malek as the rock icon Freddie Mercury in a scene from the 20th Century Fox/New Regency Queen biopic film BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY.Picture: Twentieth Century Fox

Bohemian Rhapsody star saw himself in Freddie

MR ROBOT star Rami Malek looked to his own youth to try to get inside the head of revered front man Freddie Mercury for Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody

Movies

Jamie Lee Curtis in a scene from the 2018 movie Halloween. Universal Pictures.

Scary movies provide ‘respite from the real world’

JASON Blum has made scaring people big business and is now taking a stab at one of the biggest horror franchises of all time with a Halloween sequel.

2016 Vanity Fair Oscar PartyPictured: Demi Lovato, Wilmer ValderramaRef: SPL1238438 290216 Picture by: All Access PhotoSplash News and PicturesLos Angeles: 310-821-2666New York: 212-619-2666London: 870-934-2666photodesk@splashnews.com

From Demi Lovato’s boyfriend to TV mogul

WILMER Valderrama was once known as Fez in That 70s Show and Demi Lovato’s boyfriend. But he has leveraged his newly found NCIS fame to emerge as a television mogul.

VIC News

Lehmo’s pledge to be top ‘combat comic’

ANTHONY “Lehmo” Lehmann is proud to be Australia’s number one “combat comic” after entertaining troops abroad for years and now he is co-hosting Invictus Games Tonight for the ABC.

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