What’s on
- ★★★★
- Review
This true story makes for an unlikely – and remarkable – feelgood film
There’s a lot of awards buzz around I’m Still Here, but for director Walter Salles telling this story was a highly personal undertaking.
- Sandra Hall
Latest
- ★★★★★
- Sydney live reviews
In this perfect gig, Billie Eilish shows there’s nothing she can’t do
The 23-year-old taps into her young fanbase’s experience with tenderness.
- John Shand, Daniel Herborn and Nick Newling
Agatha Christie’s work is everywhere – so why do we overlook the woman herself?
As we approach 50 years since her death, it’s easy to lose sight of how remarkable the author was both in her life and work.
- Elizabeth Flux
In this ‘impossible’ musical the cast has to do the lot
Jay Laga’aia had to take on more than saying “Argghh!” when he accepted the role of the Pirate King in a new production of The Pirates of Penzance.
- John Shand
Led Zeppelin never wanted an official documentary – until now
The iconic band are finally telling their electric origin story, offering a peek behind the curtain, as director Bernard MacMahon reveals.
- Michael Dwyer
Behind the scenes at the Botanic Garden, it’s more zoo than greenhouse
Secret doors, smoke plumes, air locks, a million species and shipwrecked treasures: this world-renowned Sydney establishment could be the most biodiverse spot in the country.
- Angus Dalton
Think you know the classic Picnic at Hanging Rock? Time to think again
The stage adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s myth-making 1967 book is designed to provoke, says its star Olivia DeJonge.
- Louise Rugendyke
- Updated
- City life
Sydney’s long-awaited, foul-smelling ‘corpse flower’ is finally blooming
Visitors are invited to come to smell the corpse flower’s rotten perfume during extended opening hours at the botanic garden before the flower withers and dies.
- Frances Howe and Angus Dalton
I think we’re meant to feel rage, but Nightbitch left me howling with laughter
Is it drama, black comedy, satire, body horror?
- Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
- ★★★★½
- Review
Despite all the awards buzz, is The Brutalist actually any good?
In an industry which ranks familiarity as its favourite selling point how do you peddle a script so original that it defies comparison?
- Sandra Hall
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