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Can Mulaney’s absurdist Netflix masterpiece save late-night TV?
If late-night TV is a sinking ship, this wild show is keeping the party going all the way down.
- by Patrick Lenton
Movies
★★★
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Historic bluesfest or semi-comic bloodfest? Sinners is both
Marvel director Ryan Coogler goes Southern Gothic in this tale of identical twins and an Irish vampire with a taste for the blues.
- by Sandra Hall
★★★
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.
- by Jake Wilson
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TV & radio
After 14 years as Vera, Brenda Blethyn finds out why she got the role
As DCI Vera Stanhope hangs up her sludge-coloured hat, her creator, crime writer Ann Cleeves, lets the actor who played her in on a secret.
- by Stephanie Bunbury
Liz Hayes joins rival TV network just months after Nine departure
When the veteran journalist left Nine just two months ago, the network claimed she would remain “part of the Nine family”.
- by Chris Hook
★★★★
Review
Horror and heartbreak is real in the devastating Narrow Road to the Deep North
- by Louise Rugendyke
Music
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Live reviews
The Libertines show felt more like a rehearsal – and we were the creepy fans spying
- by Andrew McClelland and Tony Way
Belvoir’s new show is a five-star tour de force … and very funny
- by Harriet Cunningham
Vivaldi and Hendrix collide in a concert that was something of a religious experience
- by Tony Way, Will Cox, Jessica Nicholas and Andrew Fuhrmann
Celebrity
‘Bright, shining light’: Australian model Lucy Markovic dies aged 27
- by Bronte Gossling and Damien Woolnough
Stage
The best heckles, riskiest jokes and strangest moments from this year’s comedy festival
- by Donna Demaio, Guy Webster, Hannah Francis, Lefa Singleton Norton, Mikey Cahill, Sonia Nair, Tyson Wray and Vyshnavee Wijekumar
The good, the weird and the unmissable from this festival’s final week
- by Cher Tan, Donna Demaio, Hannah Francis, John Bailey, Lefa Singleton Norton, Sonia Nair, Tyson Wray, Vyshnavee Wijekumar and Nell Geraets
Art & design
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Visual art
‘Very shocked’: How a Sydney artist’s odd inspiration won her a major prize
- by Nick Galvin
Books
From a gothic ghost story to a titillating memoir: eight new books
- by Cameron Woodhead and Steven Carroll
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