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Comedian Julio Torres

He’s worked with Tilda Swinton and Ryan Gosling. Now he’s testing his latest project in Melbourne

Former Saturday Night Live writer and cult comedy favourite Julio Torres has brought his newest experimental work to Australia.

  • Will Cox

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Amanda Knox who has just published a memoir, Free: My Search for Meaning.

‘On the world stage, I was a liar, a drug-addled slut’: Amanda Knox

With the publication of her new memoir, Amanda Knox reveals she takes nothing for granted after being wrongly convicted of murder and spending four years in custody in Italy.

  • JP O’ Malley
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
Abel Selaocoe performs with the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

Vivaldi and Hendrix collide in a concert that was something of a religious experience

Abel Selaocoe performs with the ACO in a show that is part rock concert, part ritual.

  • Tony Way, Will Cox, Jessica Nicholas and Andrew Fuhrmann
Vidya Rajan (left) and Mel McGlensey idolise Greg at Chinese Museum.

The good, the weird, and the unmissable from this festival’s final week

From a show that digs into the dark recesses of the internet, to a return to the hellmouth, here are our latest reviews.

  • Cher Tan, Donna Demaio, Hannah Francis, John Bailey, 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
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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
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

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