Brady Corbet: ‘Companies financing movies are risk-averse’
In the increasingly tough movie industry, the director has taken a gamble with the 3½-hour architectural drama The Brutalist, but it may just pay off.
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2025 Oscar nominations: see the full list
Emilia Pérez, a zany Spanish-language musical about a drug kingpin pursuing gender-affirming surgery, leads the pack with 13 nominations. Meanwhile, Nicole Kidman’s snub shifts Australia’s hopes to Guy Pearce and Adam Elliot.
Splendour in the Grass cancels for the second year running
The beloved Byron Bay music festival has postponed its return for 2025, citing a need to ‘recharge,’ with organisers promising to come back ‘even bigger and better’ when the time is right.
Another side of Bob Dylan – the dreamer
“Some of the assumptions we’ve made about him are too simple,” says director James Mangold, whose film A Complete Unknown captures the frenzied four years that saw The Bard rewrite the rules of folk music—and his own mythology.
‘New chapter’: World leaders react to Gaza ceasefire, hostage deal
Anthony Albanese has joined British PM Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron in calling for a ‘permanent, political solution’ in Gaza, and an influx of aid.
The 2025 BAFTA Awards: see the nominees
Guy Pearce is the only Australian up for an award, recognised for his mesmerising turn in The Brutalist.
‘It feels like we made it on a different planet’: Severance returns
After a three-year absence, Ben Stiller’s mind-bending corporate satire is back.
Shell-shocked A-Listers mourn for their communities
Anthony Hopkins, Billy Crystal, Paris Hilton, and Eugene Levy are among the celebrities who have lost their homes in the devastating California bushfires.
Celebrities who have lost their homes in California fires
The Palisades fire has burned through over 7000 hectares in one of Los Angeles’ most affluent areas, home to celebrities including John Goodman, Hunter Biden, Paris Hilton and Tom Hanks.
A little lubricant for the social machinery can get you where you want to go
Telling whoppers – and white lies – has served this writer well throughout her life, but for reasons that have changed over time, she explains.
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