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From top left: Eric Bana in The Dry; Kitty Flanagan in Fisk; Madeleine Sami, Kate Box and Nina Oyama in Deadloch; Aaron Pedersen in Mystery Road; and Scott Ryan in Mr Inbetween.

Tell ’em you’re streaming: 20 Australian TV shows and movies to watch this long weekend

From romcoms to thrillers and, yes, The Castle, these home-grown screen heroes will keep you watching this long weekend.

  • Craig Mathieson

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Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone  (along with Mel Gibson) cast as Trump’s Hollywood envoys.

Trump casts Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone and Jon Voight as his ‘Hollywood envoys’

The US president-elect has selected the three entertainment giants to help “a great but very troubled place”.

  • Farrah Tomazin
Mason Thames, Noah Cottrell, Julian Lerner and Abby James Witherspoon in Monster Summer.

Spielberg meets Stranger Things in this paranoid teen-horror fantasy

Monster Summer, which stars Mel Gibson, is reminiscent of Jaws, but with a more nebulous enemy.

  • Jake Wilson
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How to darn a black hole

In the laundry at the end of the universe.

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The hills are alive with the sound of studiousness

Nothing like a Taylor-made word.

NIDA graduates, from left, Jack Patten, JK Kazzi, Madeline Li and Teodora Matovic

Move over Blanchett and Weaving, NIDA class of ’23 is ready for its close-up

NIDA has produced some of Australia’s biggest acting exports, including Cate Blanchett, Judy Davis, Mel Gibson and Hugo Weaving, but on Friday the world got to meet the class of ’23.

  • Andrew Hornery
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Blue Tongue filmmaking couple Mirrah Foulkes and David Michod in Bondi.

From Bondi to Hollywood: meet the next-gen Australian filmmakers

Mirrah Foulkes and David Michod are one of our most intriguing film-making couples. The story of their first kiss is so perfect it could have been scripted.

  • Helen O'Neill
Column 8 granny dinkus

1970s theatre: Nida here nor there

While winter solstice leaves some brassed off.

Mel Gibson, Emile Hirsch, Kate Bosworth and Stephanie Cayo star in the ludicrous thriller Force of Nature.

Mel Gibson film Force of Nature is so bad, it's almost good

This unlikely killer-kitty thriller set in a block of flats in Puerto Rico during a hurricane comes with extra helpings of cheese.

  • Paul Byrnes
A woman has her temperature taken at Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas Airport in Madrid, Spain this month.

Young, healthy adults with mild COVID-19 take weeks to recover: study

The study's findings indicate recovery can be prolonged even in young adults without chronic medical conditions.

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