The media have for years been addicted to the cliche that the Archibald Prize is ‘controversial’, but would never dare question the inclusion of any of the truly incompetent pictures – they are generally made by minorities who are today exempt from criticism.
She may be playing a ‘blindly optimistic’ character, but Emma Lung can clearly see it was a punt she took on herself which led to a plum role starring opposite Australian television royalty.
Humphrey Bogart appeared in 75 movies during his legendary career from 1930 to 1957. His four wives are footnotes in history, but now they’ve stepped into the spotlight.
Australia’s World War I legend still informs the Australian mind and identity, in mysterious and compelling ways.
A couple of street hoods steal drugs from selected dealers while posing as DEA agents in this hilarious yet disturbing series. Put it on your watch list – it’s a blast.
The new season of winter TV favourite MasterChef Australia returns next week, giving familiar favourites from past seasons another chance to claim the title.
Craving more of the brilliant Stephen Graham after Adolescence? Have we got a series for you. On the lighter side, a peek inside rarefied world of ballet – think Wife Swap, but with jetes.
Watching Orange is the New Black star Uzo Aduba navigate the eight staircases, three elevators and many doors of the White House makes The Residence all the more brilliant.
I tried cocaine but am totally addicted to this. At the end of every episode I am older and wiser.
A new documentary from Oscar-winner Errol Morris explores the wild theories surrounding Charles Manson’s infamous ‘Family’.
Australian star Jacob Elordi didn’t hesitate when Snowtown director Justin Kurzel came calling – even if it meant monastic living in pursuit of cinematic truth.
As season three comes to a bloody end, so too is it one we’ve seen before. The White Lotus strives to ‘eat the rich’, only to cannibalise itself.
The 71-year-old’s latest role is as ‘a mad, mangled, psychopathic war crime boss’ but he doesn’t entirely rule out a return as 007.
Her new series of interviews reminds us how brilliant Virginia Trioli is at getting the very best from her guests who include Kate Ceberano, George Miller and Tim Minchin.
Rahel Romahn was typecast for years but then everything changed for the Kurdish Australian actor, who is starring alongside Richard Roxburgh in a new film about the detainment of journalist Peter Greste.
Something special happened during the current season of The White Lotus: a scene so bizarre, so off-putting and so explosively transcendent it blew my socks off.
Michelle Williams returns from hiatus to star as a dying woman on a journey of sexual discovery, Tom Hardy shines in Guy Ritchie’s dodgy new gangster show, and The Handmaid’s Tale (finally) comes to an end.
Chamberlain became an instant favourite with teenage girls as the compassionate physician on the TV series that aired from 1961 to 1966.
A detective is really chasing the ghost of her little brother, trying to somehow fix the past by rescuing other children in the present.
A horror show without the jump scares, this Netflix sensation hammers home the dangers of our connected world’s dark corners.
Jack Thorne’s story of a boy radicalised by online misogyny has been a Netflix smash hit. He says we should treat digital devices like cigarettes.
Summer is done. Stay inside this weekend and check out these television selections – including a medical drama which does the simple things really, really well.
The Oscar winner’s lifelong mission has been realised with the release of her new show. Could her collaboration with powerhouse forces Liane Moriarty and Bruno Papandrea spark Australian TV’s own Big Little Lies?
When human remains are found in the stomach of a dead wolf in a remote Swedish town, a detective finds herself on the precipice of chaos battling a Russian hitman.
The acclaimed show’s third season is in full swing, and with it, some of the best costume design on television. What exactly does the holiday wardrobe say about the resort’s guests – and us?
Viewers will find themselves absorbed by the landscape of Robert De Niro’s face as he plays a former president in political mystery Zero Day, his first appearance in a TV series.
Marlee Silva, 29, on the power of sport, how she deals with trolls and ‘toxic masculinity’.
This rollicking narrative of pickpocketing and boxing in the brutal East End of late-1800s London is simply gorgeous to look at. It has operatic style, grand complicated characters and, like Peaky Blinders, confronting violent moments straight from the Scorsese gangland manual.
Meghan Markle simpers and gushes and doesn’t keep quiet in her new Netflix show, With Love, Meghan. You have been warned, this is truly dreadful.
Daisy May Cooper’s mum-on-the-verge-of-a-breakdown returns for a second season of Am I Being Unreasonable? Plus a slick new German medical drama, and other goodies.
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