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Frustrated with cryptic crosswords? Read this guide to finding ‘that fabulous aha! moment’
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Slow Horses and Tenzing producer promises more underdog stories after French sale
Garry Maddox Jackson Lamb is the brilliant, slovenly head of an MI5 unit of misfits in the hit series Slow Horses. Tenzing Norgay is the spiritual sherpa who makes the first ascent of Mount Everest with Edmund Hillary in the new film Tenzing. While it's hard to imagine two more contrasting characters on screen, they share the same DNA.
‘I threw myself into that grief': How The Babadook became an Australian horror classic
Garry Maddox The black top hat and cloak. The creepy face. The claw-like feet. Twelve years after Mister Babadook became a nightmarish figure on screen, terrifying a single mother and her child, writer-director Jennifer Kent is delighted that her film The Babadook has become not just an Australian classic but a Halloween screening tradition. “To have my first film so appreciated and still kicking on is a delight,” Kent says.
Filmmakers behind controversial Gaza doco defiant despite death threats and protests
Garry Maddox Oscar-winning Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor have been at the centre of a raging controversy since their documentary NAZA debuted at the Venice Film Festival last month, receiving a 25-minute standing ovation, winning the special jury prize , being acclaimed by critics and selling to more than 50 territories around the world.
Tropfest is returning to its spiritual home but there's a huge twist
Garry Maddox Two years into its revival, Tropfest is going back to the future. Having returned after a seven-year break to Sydney's Centennial Park this year, the buzzy short-film festival will move to the Domain – the site of many of its most celebrated years – in February. And there's a twist. For the first time since it started in Darlinghurst's Tropicana Caffein 1993, Tropfest will be held on a Saturday rather than Sunday night.
It's very emotional: Axed presenter Sarah Macdonald to return to ABC 702 Sydney
Garry Maddox Less than two years after her shock axing, the ABC has confirmed that radio presenter Sarah Macdonald is returning to 702 Sydney in a different timeslot. The former Mornings host is taking over Afternoons from next March. It's the show that James Valentine hosted with warmth and wit for more than two decades, other than during a brief stint on Breakfast, before his diagnosis with oesophageal cancer.
Moving or exploitative? The verdict on the NRL's grand final pre-match show
Garry Maddox The NRL struggled to line up its traditional NRL grand final pre-match entertainment until days before the big game. No Olivia Dean, too expensive. No Tones and I, too complicated, especially if hit song Dance Monkey was off the playlist. No Silverchair reunion given the late notice and the well-known disagreements between the Newcastle band's members. The NRL eventually decided there would be no show at all this year.
A nice reunion: How Sidney Nolan's signature Ned Kelly series was brought back together
Garry Maddox It's the art world equivalent of getting the band back together. When the Art Gallery of NSW was preparing a new exhibition on Sidney Nolan's formative creative years, it already had his celebrated Ned Kelly painting First-Class Marksman , having bought it for a record-breaking $5.4 million in 2010.
The 'almost too crazy to be true' bank robbery that inspired a new Irish-Australian film
Garry Maddox Australian actor Madeleine Madden calls the audacious Irish robbery that cost the National Australia Bank $67 million more than two decades ago – equivalent to almost $120 million now – “almost too crazy to be true”. And it was. Just before Christmas in 2004, a gang kidnapped the relatives of two workers in the NAB-owned Northern Bank in Belfast late at night.
Why young filmmakers are spending their savings on feature films
Garry Maddox They are feature films you will almost certainly never see. Made for comically small budgets. Starring no-one you know. Yet at a time when even well-funded Australian films regularly struggle to find an audience, young filmmakers keep making ultra-low budget features, even if it means using up their savings, going into debt and burning favours from friends and acquaintances. Many will never make another film. So why do it?
Belvoir boss walks Australian theatre’s tightrope
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How a writing group is helping locals share revealing true stories
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‘We treasure every moment': Richard Scolyer's children shine on a difficult, emotional day
Garry Maddox Legacy comes in many forms. At Professor Richard Scolyer's emotional state memorial service at the Sydney Opera House on Monday, it was clear that his bright, articulate children are as much a part of the former Australian of the Year's legacy as his outstanding achievements in pathology, medical research and cancer treatment.
Once little known outside medicine, Richard Scolyer will have a full house at state funeral
Garry Maddox Until just over three years ago, Professor Richard Scolyer would have been no chance of ever having a state funeral. He was at the peak of an exceptional career as a world-leading pathologist, medical co-director of Melanoma Institute Australia, joint author of more than 900 research papers, speaker at 400-plus conferences and seminars, conjoint professor at the University of Sydney and senior staff specialist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
Why we love the greatest movie scores so much
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Hugh Jackman’s dark and gritty Robin Hood plus nine other Sydney Film Festival standouts
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She’s toured with Beck and collaborated with Dr Dre – meet our most unlikely music star
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The Australian who has turned whistling into a career
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Public memorial for James Valentine to be held at Sydney Town Hall
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For James Reyne, a 1983 Australian film is a memory of past love. Now it’s getting a second life
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The four-time Oscar winner who is a champion of cinemas, sex workers and Australian coffee
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This Tasmanian has tuned 18,000 pianos. Now he’s won a place at Sydney Film Festival
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James Valentine’s final year filmed for ABC TV
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Writer-director Celine Song on making what might just be the year's best film Original
Past Lives trailer Celine Song’s life changed seven months ago. The Korean-Canadian playwright was virtually unknown outside the North American theatre scene until a film she had written and directed – her first – started winning fans at its Sundance debut. Suddenly, filmgoers were coming up to the 35-year-old after screenings of the achingly beautiful romantic drama Past Lives to talk about it.
A most unlikely sweep as Everything Everywhere dominates the Oscars
1 hour ago Hugh Grant gave a number of blunt answers during his red carpet interview at the Oscars on Sunday night (12 March). The British star stopped to chat with Ashley Graham ahead of the Academy Awards, but gave very little away. Asked about how fun it was to be a part of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Grant suggested he was “barely in it”. “I’m in it for about three seconds,” he said, adding that he “almost” had fun shooting it. Click here to sign up for our newsletters.
Ready, set, watch: The 12 films you should see before the Oscars
By Garry Maddox You’ve got one month to prepare for Hollywood’s night of nights.Credit:Marija Ercegovac Forget hamstring stretches, star jumps and push-ups. It’s just over four weeks to the Academy Awards so it’s time for a different type of boot camp to prepare for the big day. A program of film watching will have you ready for every key Oscars conversation – whether Austin Butler deserves to win best actor for Elvis more than Brendan Fraser for The Whale, for example.
Our 10 most anticipated movies of 2023
Home » Lifestyle » Our 10 most anticipated movies of 2023 By Meg Watson and Garry Maddox Barbie, The New Boy, John Wick: Chapter 4 and Killers of the Flower Moon are some of the films we’re most excited about in 2023. From likely Oscar contenders, to intriguing Australian releases, and Hollywood blockbusters, the new year is full of promising films. True, there are plenty of sequels. But as Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar: The Way Of Water have shown, we’ll happily head to the cinema if they’re good.
The Castle for a new generation, one that will be stuck in share houses forever
By Garry Maddox Evicted (left) is about housemates being kicked out of their longtime rental house; The Castle (right) is about a family’s fight to keep their property. Director Rowan Devereux sees his first film as the opposite of The Castle. Yes, it’s a low budget Australian film. And, yes, it’s a warm-spirited comedy. But while the 1997 classic was about owning a home, Devereux’s Evicted: A Modern Romance is about the horrors of renting.
Comedian Tom Ballard joins boycott of Sydney Festival over Israeli embassy funding
Comedian Tom Ballard has joined the boycott of Sydney Festival over funding from the Embassy of Israel and called on other artists to stand up for human rights. The former ABC radio and television host had been due to MC a session of the festival’s Gala Comedy Night. But he has decided to withdraw after listening to calls to boycott the festival over its decision to accept funding from and partner with the Israeli embassy.
How Spider-Man: No Way Home became one of Australia’s biggest box office hits
It arrived a week early but Spider-Man: No Way Home has been the perfect Christmas present for cinemas battered for two years during the pandemic. Marvel’s latest superhero movie, which stars Tom Holland as the teenage webslinger and Zendaya as girlfriend MJ, has moved from box office hit to cultural phenomenon in three weeks. Taking $58.3 million, it is already the sixth biggest hit at the Australian box office.
Why critics have got it wrong about comet extinction movie Don’t Look Up
This was published 6 months ago Opinion Director Adam McKay’s comic The Big Short, which used such clever devices as having Margot Robbie explain sub-prime loans while drinking champagne in a bubblebath, was widely acclaimed as a scalding examination of the global financial crisis. Many respected critics have been decidedly less enthusiastic about McKay’s Don’t Look Up, which has been Netflix’s top-ranked movie since opening on Christmas Eve.
The choir that takes cancer patients away from life and death struggles
There is every chance of hearing Louis Armstrong's What A Wonderful World, the Monkees' I'm A Believer or Bruno Mars' Count On Me. There could also some Elvis, Beatles, Abba, Oasis or Crowded House.
'You can only resist for so long': the threat to Sydney's food bowl
Hundreds of eyes are on Joe Grima as he enters the shed. "Come on boys," he says, clearing a path through 1500 plump turkeys standing on a woodchip floor. It's a hot morning – heading for a baking 42 degrees on Sydney's south-western outskirts – so he knows it will be a day of shuttling between six sheds on a golf cart, adjusting temperature and humidity controls to stop the birds getting stressed.
Turnbull joins dancing at Wayside Chapel's party
The Wayside Chapel's Christmas Day lunch and street party for the homeless was full of strangers but a familiar face in a festive shirt found he was among friends. In high spirits at the end of the political year, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull joined more than 100 volunteers serving 1000 meals in Potts Point.
Turnbull joins dancing at Wayside Chapel's party
The Wayside Chapel's Christmas Day lunch and street party for the homeless was full of strangers but a familiar face in a festive shirt found he was among friends. In high spirits at the end of the political year, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull joined more than 100 volunteers serving 1000 meals in Potts Point.
How Star Wars is changing the game for holiday season movies
Go early and beat the rush. The Australian tradition of Boxing Day as the biggest cinema-going day of the year is shifting ground as the summer's big movies are either released or given extensive preview screenings before Christmas. For the third year in a row, the reignited Star Wars franchise has delivered a new movie two weeks before Christmas. And as with The Force Awakens and Rogue One, The Last Jedi is virtually guaranteed to be the biggest movie of the holidays.
How Star Wars is changing the game for holiday season movies
Go early and beat the rush. The Australian tradition of Boxing Day as the biggest cinema-going day of the year is shifting ground as the summer's big movies are either released or given extensive preview screenings before Christmas. For the third year in a row, the reignited Star Wars franchise has delivered a new movie two weeks before Christmas. And as with The Force Awakens and Rogue One, The Last Jedi is virtually guaranteed to be the biggest movie of the holidays.
How Star Wars is changing the game for holiday season movies
The Australian tradition of Boxing Day as the biggest cinema-going day of the year is shifting ground as the summer's big movies are either released or given extensive preview screenings before Christmas. For the third year in a row, the reignited Star Wars franchise has delivered a new movie two weeks before Christmas. And as with The Force Awakens and Rogue One, The Last Jedi is virtually guaranteed to be the biggest movie of the holidays.
Richard Gere on how China has damaged his career over his support for Tibet – Central Tibetan Administration
By Garry Maddox, Sydney Morning Herald Around the time of American Gigolo, An Officer and a Gentleman, Pretty Woman and Primal Fear – the heady ’80s and ’90s – Richard Gere was just about the biggest star in Hollywood. Dashing, charming, sexy, great hair. But while he has slipped from the spotlight at the age of 67, it is not so much about a declining number of roles for ageing heartthrobs.
Behind the baffling best film tie between The Water Diviner and The Babadook at the AACTA Awards
When the "weighted value" of votes for the six nominees were tallied, with six points for a first vote and one point for a sixth, the horror film had 855.5 votes to The Water Diviner's 838.5. But there was an aberration: The Water Diviner was easily the first choice of most voters but, in either a backlash against the film or its director-star, more voters also placed it last.
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