Geordie Gray

Geordie GrayEntertainment reporter

Geordie Gray is an entertainment reporter based in Sydney. She writes about film, television, music and pop culture. Previously, she was News Editor at The Brag Media and wrote features for Rolling Stone. She did not go to university.

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Stars on showNation

Just like Santa Claus, the whole world is coming to town

Many of Australia’s most famous exports have returned home to spend Christmas in the sun.

Geordie Gray and John Stensholt

‘I saw this firsthand’Film

Amber Heard supports Blake Lively amid ‘horrifying’ smear campaign allegations

The Aquaman star backs Lively in her legal battle against It Ends With Us director Justin Baldoni, accused of orchestrating a ‘retaliatory social media campaign with help from the same crisis management expert used by her ex-husband Johnny Depp during his 2022 defamation trial.

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INTERVIEWReview

Embargoed images to go with BINGE upfronts. Print Friday. Online 8pm Thursday Hugo Weaving. Foxtel Group Content Announcements. BINGE today announced its first original feature film, How to Make Gravy, an adaptation of Paul Kelly’s iconic Australian song that tells the story of a troubled inmate seeking redemption as his family prepare to celebrate their first Christmas without him. Since its release in 1996, the song has achieved near-mythological status in the Australian musical canon and has cemented itself in the Christmas traditions of millions of families., ,

Why Hugo Weaving is ‘so bored’ with playing macho men

In his role in How to Make Gravy, the star embraces a gentler side: ‘I didn’t want to go to a place where I’m playing yet another cliché caricature of Australian masculinity.’

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Arts

A work from DIG. Picture: Tristan Jensen

Taylah Hasaballah’s paintings are built to decay

With her upcoming Sydney exhibition DIG, Hasaballah challenges art’s obsession with permanence, using chemical reactions and environmental influences to shape paintings that evolve over time.

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FilmArts

The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA Awards) has revealed the nominees for the 14th International AACTA Awards.

The bold, the bizarre and the brilliant get award nods

From a CGI chimpanzee playing Robbie Williams, to Toni Collette and Nicole Kidman battling it out for Best Actress, this year’s AACTA Awards nominations celebrate the bold, the bizarre, and the brilliant in film and television | FULL LIST

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Awards SeasonArts

Alessandro Nivola and Adrien Brody in The Brutalist

Golden Globes 2025: see the nominees

Australia punched above its weight this year, with acting nods for Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett, Guy Pearce and Naomi Watts. And a best Animated Motion Picture nomination for claymation auteur Adam Elliott.

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civil lawsuitWorld

NEW YORK - OCTOBER 17: Sean "P.Diddy" Combs, Jay-Z, Usher, and Mariah Carey at the 26th Birthday party for Usher October 17, 2004 at the Rainbow Room in New York City. The party theme was dress and decor of the 1920's. (Photo by Frank Micelotta/Getty Images)

Jay-Z accused of raping 13-year-old girl with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs

The rapper has vehemently denied the allegations, calling them a ‘blackmail attempt’ filed by an ‘ambulance chaser in a cheap suit’.

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SEE THE DATAMusic

Taylor Swift is the No. 1 streamed artist for the second consecutive year.

Spotify Wrapped reveals top songs and podcasts in Australia in 2024

For the second consecutive year, Taylor Swift is the most-streamed artist on the planet.

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SydneyMusic

Waxahatchee plays the Sydney Opera House on Monday, December 2. Picture: Mikki Gomez

Waxahatchee live review: a gifted songwriter at the peak of her powers

It’s not too great a stretch of the imagination to picture an alternate universe where Katie Crutchfield’s Americana project is as big a deal as Taylor Swift.

Geordie Gray

Q&AThe Weekend Australian Magazine

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - SEPTEMBER 6: Portrait of English comic book writer Alan Moore, taken on September 6, 2013. Moore is often considered the finest writer in the comics medium, and is best known for his graphic novels Watchmen and V For Vendetta. (Photo by Kevin Nixon/SFX Magazine/Future via Getty Images)

’We’re all too comfortable with fantasy’

Fantasy fiction is having a cultural moment but Alan Moore – the author of V for Vendetta and Watchmen – says the genre is in danger of losing its relevance altogether.

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