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It’s been just over 20 years to the day since the much-loved teen movie 10 Things I Hate About You, featuring Heath Ledger’s star-making turn as a charismatic, roguish heartthrob, first hit cinemas. Based on The Taming of the Shrew, the 1999 film was one of a slew of Shakespeare adaptations of that era, such
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With The Good, The Bad and The Elderly, 2019 Moosehead Award-winning comedian Tanya Losanno explores life in the ‘sandwich generation’ – thirty and fortysomething-year-olds responsible for taking care of ageing parents and their own children. The show begins with Losanno describing her love for the music of Italian composer Ennio Morricone. Morricone is well known for scoring
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It’s rare for a superhero blockbuster to inspire a near-spiritual experience, but that’s what Patty Jenkins’ 2017 film Wonder Woman did for author and comedian Joanne Brookfield. In the opening chapter of her new book No Apologies (Echo Publishing, $29.99) she describes, awe radiating off the page, how it felt to watch “a woman saving the world”: “Imagine if that
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You know it’s going to be a big-budget, blockbuster show when, squished into the Tower Room at the Malthouse, a glow of moody red lighting spills through from offstage OP; and then the sounds of thundering hooves – destriers charging, the clashing of swords, the cries of men – and it’s so close, so life-like,
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Many Australians would recognise Michelle Wolf as the comedian who skewered Donald Trump’s press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in 2018, when Wolf told Sanders to her face that she burns facts and uses the ash to create a “perfect smokey eye”. Though the set sparked outcry – mainly from
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Some film stars play variations of themselves; others disappear into their roles. Somehow Juliette Binoche manages to do both: you’re never entirely unaware that you’re watching the French arthouse stalwart, and yet she manages to embody a spectrum of human emotions unreachable to lesser actors prone to overcompensation and overacting. Between a recent retrospective of
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Ingredients were ripe for A Day on the Green at Victoria’s Rochford Winery: balmy skies, light breezes, full strength drinks and an eclectic bill headed by the king of cool, Bryan Ferry, supported by a trio of local acts. The well-oiled event ran to the minute, with chair hire, food trucks, multiple bar stalls, clean
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The Head On photo festival returns to Sydney to celebrate its 10th anniversary this May. The festival presents curated exhibitions featuring contemporary fine art photography, portraiture and photojournalism. Features of the program include an exhibition of works by internationally celebrated German-Australian fashion photographer Helmut Newton (1920-2004), David Bowie by renowned Japanese artist Masayoshi Sukita, Walkley Award
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The program for this year’s iteration of Parrtjima – A Festival in Light has been unveiled. The festival aims to showcase some of the oldest continuous cultures on Earth though the newest technology, against the backdrop of the MacDonnell Ranges. Creative director Rhoda Roberts returns to curate her third Parrtjima, which this year is themed
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This show crashes into Melbourne for Midsumma, flung from space via the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. The self-described space-fiction confidently incorporates diverse musical genres, large projections and Auslan to create an energised vision of queer and accessible futures. Calling itself a “modern mythology, a queer tale, an abstract adventure,” Queen Kong’s commitment to colliding space and time is
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