The critics are wrong about Harry Styles
My Policeman is acutely scripted, sensitively directed and finely acted byt the pop star. It’s one of the best films out right now.
Stephen Romei
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The affair that changed everything
At first glance, the title of Alex Miller’s new novel, A Brief Affair, is dismissed by the central character, the academic and adulteress Dr Frances Egan, a “smart-looking woman of forty-two’’ who is married with two young children.
Trump shadow looms over drama
In the coming of-age-drama Armageddon Time, American filmmaker James Gray returns to the New York roots he explored in earlier films such as The Yards (2000) and We Own the Night (2007).
The Big Dance: Country comes to town
The Big Dance, over 1600m and worth $2m, is the latest big-bucks race devised by Racing NSW chief executive Peter V’landys to put Sydney and Melbourne on equal hoofing during the Spring Carnival.
Race or retire? It’s a numbers game
When it comes to the financial firepower of a horse, maths rules. A good example is Pierro, who commands a $99,000 service fee and has so far sired more than 700 foals.
Marvel? Hardly. This movie is a mess
How best to sum up Black Adam, the 11th movie in the DC Extended Universe? How about this: this is a mess of a movie.
Racing’s X-factor
An extraordinarily lucrative event has redrawn the turf landscape.
Could this really be the end of Halloween?
Jamie Lee Curtis was 19 when she made her film debut as Laurie in the original directed by Carpenter. She has appeared in 7 of the 13 movies and is in fine form in this new one.
‘Dress like a knight or dress like a lady, the blood will come. You are a woman now.’
The problem for the young Lady in this satisfying comedy-drama is that going from girl to woman in 13th century England means only a change of ownership, from father to husband.
Tiny but mighty: ‘I’ve had two runts in as many months’
New dad Craig Silvey on his new novel, Runt, in which small people (and one small dog) show the value of having a big heart.
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