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Stills from new series Robin Hood, starring Australia’s Jack Patten.

Will next-gen NIDA grads join former alumni Cate, Baz, Toni and Hugo?

Just 22 students – whittled down from 1000 applicants – will graduate from the world-acclaimed drama school next Friday.

  • Andrew Hornery

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Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), the dishevelled leader of a team of MI5 outcasts in Slow Horses S5.

Slow Horses is back for a fifth season. But can it maintain the pace?

The pleasures of Jackson Lamb and his misfit crew of spies are becoming familiar, but each season still feels like a delight.

  • Karl Quinn
Dan (Brenton Thwaites), Rita (Agathe Rousselle), Joe (Daniel Henshall),  Angus (Jonah Wren Phillips), Dolly (Izzy Westlake) and Frank (Rose Statham). 

How Paul Kelly’s classic song How to Make Gravy was turned into a different kind of Christmas film

Co-writers Meg Washington and her director husband, Nick Waterman, knew the stakes were high: “We treated the song like it was Shakespeare.”

  • Louise Rugendyke
Meg Washington in character as ‘Kelly’ in How to Make Gravy, with her husband, director Nick Waterman. The two co-wrote the film’s screenplay.

How a Paul Kelly Christmas song became a Brisbane couple’s feature film debut

How to Make Gravy is co-written by actor-musician Meg Washington and her filmmaker husband Nick Waterman.

  • Nick Dent
Hugo Weaving stars as Frank Harness in season four of Slow Horses.

Hugo Weaving rarely does TV. He made an exception for Slow Horses

The Australian actor steps into season four of the British spy thriller, playing the American leader of a mercenary group.

  • Louise Rugendyke

Priscilla at 30: How queens of the desert made Australian film history

The people behind the cinematic legend relive the colour and chaos behind the scenes – and how one casting misstep might have changed everything.

  • Michael Idato
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We cross these roads every day, but what lies beneath the bitumen?

A new exhibition at ACMI follows long-hidden Indigenous pathways to create the ultimate Australian road movie.

  • Andrew Stephens
A sequel has been written for The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

Fabulous, darling! Priscilla to ride again in film sequel

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – an Australian classic – is getting a sequel, according to director Stephan Elliott.

  • Ashleigh McMillan
Olwen Fouéré as the First Lady and Hugo Weaving as the titular president.

Hugo Weaving is repellent yet compelling in STC’s The President

Irish actor Olwen Fouéré and Australia’s Hugo Weaving command the stage in Sydney Theatre Company’s first time co-production with Dublin’s Gate Theatre.

  • Harriet Cunningham
Hugo Weaving says the STC was “not front-footed enough” amid the furore over actors wearing keffiyeh on stage in a show of solidarity with Palestine.

‘It’s appalling’: Hugo Weaving on the backlash to pro-Palestine protests in Australia

The acclaimed actor has just finished performing his latest play in Ireland, where he says conversations about Gaza and Israel are much more “sane” than in Australia.

  • Louise Rugendyke

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